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1. Introduction .- 1.1 Collocations and Their Relevance for NLP . 1.2 The Need for Syntax-Based Collocation Extraction . 1.3 Aims . 1.4 Chapters Outline .- 2. On Collocations . 2.1. Introduction . 2.2 A Survey of Definitions . 2.3 Towards a Core Collocation Concept . 2.4 Theoretical Perspectives on Collocations . 2.5 Linguistic Descriptions . 2.6 What collocation means in this book . 2.7 Summary .- 3. Survey of Extraction Methods . 3.1 Introduction . 3.2 Extraction Techniques . 3.3 Linguistic Preprocessing . 3.4 Survey of the State of the Art . 3.5 Summary .- 4. Syntax-Based Extraction . 4.1 Introduction . 4.2 The Fips Multilingual Parser . 4.3 Extraction Method . 4.4 Evaluation . 4.5 Qualitative Analysis . 4.6 Discussion . 4.7 Summary .- 5. Extensions . 5.1 Identification of Complex Collocations . 5.2 Data-Driven Induction of Syntactic Patterns . 5.3 Corpus-Based Collocation Translation . 5.4 Summary .- 6. Conclusion . 6.1 Main Contributions . 6.2 Future Directions .- References .- A. List of Collocation Dictionaries .- B. List of Collocation Definitions .- C. Association Measures - Mathematical Notes .- D. Monolingual Evaluation (Experiment 1) .- E. Cross-lingual Evaluation (Experiment 2) .- F. Output Comparison.