We introduce the possibility of combining lexical association measures and present empirical results of several methods employed in automatic collocation extraction. First, we present a comprehensive summary overview of association measures and their performance on manually annotated data evaluated by precision-recall graphs and mean average precision.
Second, we describe several classification methods for combining association measures, followed by their evaluation and comparison with individual measures. Finally, we propose a feature selection algorithm significantly reducing the number of combined measures with only a small performance degradation.