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In this paper a methodology to compile a list of noun- based academic collocations that feed a lexical tool (Author , 2017) is proposed. To do so, a filter that measures the interdisciplinarity of academic nouns from which collocations are extracted (García-Salido, 2021) is established.
This filter is applied to include nouns that are frequent and homogeneously distributed across different academic disciplines, and discard those ascribed to terminology or are more prototypical of general language. Three criteria were used: (1) the IDF (Jones, 1972); (2) an analysis of collocation distributions; (3) a contrast with vocabulary lists of academic English.
Results show that these criteria are useful for identifying prototypical nouns of academic discourse and allow for filtering the list of academic collocations. However, the problem regarding how to deal with semantic disambiguation in different disciplines is still present.