Term Dictionary

A Term Dictionary is a dictionary composed for terminological terms.

• Example(s):
  • a CPROD1 Dictionary,
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Glossary.
  • a General Dictionary.
• See: Terminology, Controlled Vocabulary.

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References

1995

• (Justesonam & Katza, 1995) ⇒ John S. Justesonam, and Slava M. Katza. (1995). “Technical Terminology: Some linguistic properties and an algorithm for identification in text.” In: Natural Language Engineering, 1. doi:10.1017/S1351324900000048
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Technical+terminology%3A+some+linguistic+properties+and+an+algorithm+for+identification+in+text%22+1995
  • ABSTRACT: This paper identifies some linguistic properties of technical terminology, and uses them to formulate an algorithm for identifying technical terms in running text. The grammatical properties discussed are preferred phrase structures: technical terms consist mostly of noun phrases containing adjectives, nouns, and occasionally prepositions; rerely do terms contain verbs, adverbs, or conjunctions. The discourse properties are patterns of repetition that distinguish noun phrases that are technical terms, especially those multi-word phrases that constitute a substantial majority of all technical vocabulary, from other types of noun phrase.
    The paper presents a terminology identification algorithm that is motivated by these linguistic properties. An implementation of the algorithm is described; it recovers a high proportion of the technical terms in a text, and a high proportion of the recovered strings are valid technical terms. The algorithm proves to be effective regardless of the domain of the text to which it is applied.
  • QUOTE: ... However, deciding whether a given noun phrase is a technical term is necessarily somewhat subjective: many items not found in a terminological dictionary have the 'feel' of terms within the context of a particular paper, and the line between a nonlexical, topical NP and a ...

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