IDENTIFYING WORD COLLOCATIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS

Systems and methods for identifying word collocations in natural language texts. An example method comprises: performing, by a computing device, semantico-syntactic analysis of a natural language text to produce a plurality of semantic structures; generating, in view of relationships defined by the semantic structures, a raw list of word combinations; producing a list of collocations by applying a heuristic filter to the raw list of word combinations; and using the list of collocations to perform a natural language processing operation.