How to use
About
Type a word above to see how it behaves in academic writing —
which adjectives, verbs and nouns it teams up with, with real example
sentences from university textbooks.
How to use the Collocation Explorer
Search for an academic word or one of its family forms.
Choose a word class when more than one is available.
Scan the patterns to see which words commonly occur together.
Select a collocation to read examples, then use the play button to hear a sentence.
The numbers show occurrences in this corpus. Use the discipline filters to compare
broad subject areas; a low count does not mean that a collocation is incorrect.
WordView shows selected collocations found in its OpenStax textbook corpus.
To see how a word behaves in a much larger general corpus, continue in
SKELL ↗ .
About the Collocation Explorer
This tool supports noticing and exploring academic collocations. Patterns are
extracted automatically from OpenStax textbook sentences and ranked using frequency
and logDice association. Results should be treated as corpus evidence, not rules.
Source and acknowledgement
The example sentences come from OpenStax textbooks
and remain under their source-edition licences. Of the 28 editions in this corpus,
25 use CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
and three use CC BY 4.0 .
This is a noncommercial, experimental corpus view. Per-example book attribution is
being added; the current build should not be treated as cleared for redistribution.
The interface is inspired by the FLAX project developed at the University of Waikato,
including the work of Ian H. Witten and the wider FLAX team.
Analysis and searches run in the browser.