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| Title | Use of Greek and Latin Forms for Term Detection |
| Authors | Estopà Rosa (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Rambla Santa Mònica, 30, 08002 Barcelona, Spain, rosa.estopa@trad.upf.es) Vivaldi Jordi (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Rambla Santa Mònica, 30, 08002 Barcelona, Spain, jorge.vivaldi@info.upf.es) Cabré M. Teresa (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Rambla Santa Mònica, 30, 08002 Barcelona, Spain, teresa.cabre@trad.upf.es) |
| Keywords | Neo-Classical Compounds, Term Detection, Terminology |
| Session | Session TO1 - Terminology |
| Full Paper | 55.ps, 55.pdf |
| Abstract | It is well known that many languages make use of neo-classical compounds, and that some domains with a very long tradition like medicine made an intense use of such morphemes. This phenomenon has been largely studied for different languages with the common result that a relatively short number of morphemes allows the detection of a high number of specialised terms to be produced. We believe that the use of such morphological knowledge may help a term detector in discovering very specialised terms. In this paper we propose a module to be included in a term extractor devoted specifically to detect terms that include neo-classical compounds. We describe such module as well the results obtained from it. |