en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOC
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studying collations or the co-occurrence of words.
This should be “collocations,” not “collations.” Contemporary descriptions of CLOC call it a collocation package/generator, and CLOC’s name itself is described as coming from “collocation.”
Full reasoning
The phrase is incorrect because CLOC was described in contemporary sources as a tool for collocations (words occurring together), not for collations.
Evidence:
- An official page for Alan Reed's CLOC software calls it "CLOC Collocation Package" and explains that it finds "the collocates of a given word", i.e. words occurring in close proximity.
- A contemporary bibliographic reference lists the work as "CLOC: a general-purpose concordance and collocations generator."
- Another source explains that "The CLOC name is an acronym from 'collocation'" and defines that in terms of words occurring together.
So the sentence on the page appears to contain a term error/typo: it should say CLOC had features for studying collocations (co-occurrence of words), not collations.
3 sources
- CLOC collocations concordance and wordlists
CLOC Collocation Package ... This FREE program lets you find the collocates of a given word. These are the words that occur in close proximity to the word you have chosen. CLOC can also produce word lists, and concordances of words and phrases.
- Dictionaries and computers
Reed, A. and Schonfelder, J.L. (1979) "CLOC: a general-purpose concordance and collocations generator".
- Computer Applications in Professional Writing: Systems that Analyze and Describe Natural Language
The CLOC program was developed by Alan Reed at the Birmingham University Computer Centre... The CLOC name is an acronym from "collocation," the tendency of a word either to be with another word...