... to the prediction of associations rely on just one type of in-formation, generally taking the form of either word space models or collocationmeasures. At the moment, it is an openquestion ... rank of the strong associations. the magnitude of asymmetry. In a similar vein,Wettler et al. (2005) successfully predict associa-tions on the basis of co-occurrence in text, in the framework of ... mean rank of the strongest associationin this list. Associations absent from the list auto-matically received a rank of 101. Thus, the lower the rank, the better the performance of the system.While...