A method and system for determining a lexical association of phrasal terms are described. A corpus having a plurality of words is received, and a plurality of contexts including one or more context words proximate to a word in the corpus is determined. An occurrence count for each context is determined,...http://www.google.de/patents/US20050222837?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20050222837 - Lexical association metric for knowledge-free extraction of phrasal terms