Why does a search for collocations within a specialized legal corpus of contractual agreements often yield skewed results when compared to a general language corpus?

💡 Explanation

Domain-specific usage inflates the association between certain words because legal language tends to repeat specific phrases, creating artificially high collocation frequencies within that specific context. Therefore, the collocation frequency is skewed, rather than a result of corpus size or tokenization errors, which affect all corpora.

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