| Title |
Detection of Domain Specific Terminology Using Corpora Comparison |
| Author(s) |
Patrick Drouin Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec), H3C 3J7 |
| Session |
O5-T |
| Abstract |
Identifying terms in specialized corpora is a central task in terminological work (compilation of domain-specific dictionaries), but is labour-intensive, especially when the corpora are voluminous which is often the case nowadays. For the past decade, terminologists and specialized lexicographers have been able to rely on term-extraction tools to assist them in the selection of terms. However, most term-extractors focus on the identification of complex terms. Although complex terms (cellular telephone) are central to terminology processing, retrieval of uniterms (telephone) is still a major challenge. This paper evaluates the usefulness of a corpora comparison approach in order to find pinpoint corpus specific words in order to identify uniterms in the field of telecommunications. |
| Keyword(s) |
terminology, term extraction, corpus comparison |
| Language(s) | English |
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