1. A method, implemented by a computing system comprising one or more processors, the method comprising: comparing, using one or more of the processors, one or more collocations from a text sample with a corpus; identifying, using one or more of the processors, whether the collocations are disfavored in the corpus; and providing indications of whether the collocations are disfavored via an output device; in which comparing the collocations with the corpus comprises performing one or more searches of the World Wide Web using one or more query terms that comprise each of one or more of the collocations; and in which for each of one or more of the collocations for which searches are performed, a search is performed for each of the one or more query terms that comprise the collocation until either one of the query terms provides search results that meet a preselected threshold for matching the collocation, or all the query terms that comprise the collocation are used without meeting the preselected threshold, and further comprising: composing one or more query terms with a wild card replacing a word in one of the disfavored collocations; searching a word collocation reference for the query terms; identifying results of the search having a relatively high proportion of a candidate word replacing the wild card; and providing the results of the search having the candidate word via the output device as potentially proper word collocations.
1. A method, implemented by a computing system comprising one or more processors, the method comprising: comparing, using one or more of the processors, one or more collocations from a text sample with a corpus; identifying, using one or more of the processors, whether the collocations are disfavored in the corpus; and providing indications of whether the collocations are disfavored via an output device; in which comparing the collocations with the corpus comprises performing one or more searches of the World Wide Web using one or more query terms that comprise each of one or more of the collocations; and in which for each of one or more of the collocations for which searches are performed, a search is performed for each of the one or more query terms that comprise the collocation until either one of the query terms provides search results that meet a preselected threshold for matching the collocation, or all the query terms that comprise the collocation are used without meeting the preselected threshold, and further comprising: composing one or more query terms with a wild card replacing a word in one of the disfavored collocations; searching a word collocation reference for the query terms; identifying results of the search having a relatively high proportion of a candidate word replacing the wild card; and providing the results of the search having the candidate word via the output device as potentially proper word collocations. 15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising enabling a user to select one of the potentially proper word collocations to replace the disfavored word collocation to which it corresponds.