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- Dictionaryco-occurrence/kəʊəˈkʌrəns/
noun
- 1. the fact of two or more things occurring together or simultaneously: "studies have documented the co-occurrence of eating disorders and substance abuse"
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Linguistic term for frequency of occurrence of two terms alongside each other in a certain order
In linguistics, co-occurrence or cooccurrence is an above-chance frequency of ordered occurrence of two adjacent terms in a text corpus. Co-occurrence in this linguistic sense can be interpreted as an indicator of semantic proximity or an idiomatic expression. Corpus linguistics and its statistic analyses reveal patterns of co-occurrences within a language and enable to work out typical collocatio... Wikipedia