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Automatic Term Extraction

 | KU Leuven
 | KU Leuven
Published online: 13 March 2015
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Corpus collection
  • 3.Unithood
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Linguistic approaches
    • 3.3Statistical approaches
      • 3.3.1 Collocation measures
      • 3.3.2 Paradigmatic modifiability
      • 3.3.3 Lexical bundles
  • 4.Termhood
    • 4.1Introduction
    • 4.2 Distributional approach: TF-IDF
    • 4.3A contextual approach to TH: C/NC value
    • 4.4 Morphological approaches
    • 4.5 Contrastive approaches to TH
  • 5.Term variation
  • 6.Evaluation and validation
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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