This you'll need to understand the abbreviations in chapter 5: MI: mutual information as used in Chruch,Hanks: Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 1989. Dice: the Dice coefficient as used in Frank Smadja and Kathleen R. McKeown and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou: Translating Collocations for Bilingual Lexicons: A Statistical Approach. Computational Linguistics. Vol. 22(1). 1996. I: relative entropy (mutual information) as it is standardly used in information theory Lgl: the log-likelihood statistics described in Dunning: Accurate methods for the statistics of surprise and coincidence. Computational Linguistics. Vol. 19(1). 1993.