Lexical Collocation Analysis

Pascual Cantos-Gómez is Full Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia (Spain). He earned his BA and PhD at the University of Murcia; his MA in Computational Linguistics at the University of Essex (UK); and his PGDip in Multivariate Statistics at the UNED (Spain). His main research interests are in Corpus Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics and Computational Lexicography. He has (co-)authored numerous articles, papers and various books one corpus linguistics, computational lexicography and statistics in linguistics research; his most recent book is Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research (Equinox Publishing). He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international peer-reviewed Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science (Equinox) and was also editor-in-chief of International Journal of English Studies (Editum). Presently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities(University of Murcia), Head of the LACELL (Applied Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning and Lexicography) Research Group and President of the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO).  Moisés Almela is Tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia (Spain). He holds a BA in German Studies from the Complutense University (Spain), a BA in English Studies from the National University of Distance Education (Spain), an MA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Murcia (Spain) and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Murcia. His main research interests are in Corpus Linguistics and Corpus-based Lexicography. He has authored numerous articles and papers on collocation analysis. Presently, he is the Chair of the Corpus Linguistics, Computational and Language Engineering Panel of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), and of the Corpus-based Lexicology and Lexicography Panel of the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO).