Article published In: Terminology across Languages and Domains
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon and Kyo Kageura
[Terminology 21:2] 2015
► pp. 180–204
Nested term recognition driven by word connection strength
Published online: 31 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/term.21.2.03mar
https://doi.org/10.1075/term.21.2.03mar
Domain corpora are often not very voluminous and even important terms can occur in them not as isolated maximal phrases but only within more complex constructions. Appropriate recognition of nested terms can thus influence the content of the extracted candidate term list and its order. We propose a new method for identifying nested terms based on a combination of two aspects: grammatical correctness and normalised pointwise mutual information (NPMI) counted for all bigrams in a given corpus. NPMI is typically used for recognition of strong word connections, but in our solution we use it to recognise the weakest points to suggest the best place for division of a phrase into two parts. By creating, at most, two nested phrases in each step, we introduce a binary term structure. We test the impact of the proposed method applied, together with the C-value ranking method, to the automatic term recognition task performed on three corpora, two in Polish and one in English.
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