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
Full Paper

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