A corpus comparison approach for terminology extraction

Chung, Teresa Mihwa

doi:10.1075/term.9.2.05chu

Article published In: Terminology
Vol. 9:2 (2003) ► pp.221–246

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A corpus comparison approach for terminology extraction

Teresa Mihwa Chung

Published online: 4 February 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/term.9.2.05chu

This article examines one of the possible approaches to identifying technical terms: a corpus comparison approach using the range and frequency of word forms. In order to identify terms using the corpus comparison approach, a ratio is used as a tool based on the comparative range and frequency of word forms between a technical corpus and a comparison corpus. A rating scale approach is used as the basis for evaluating the corpus comparison approach.

The analysis shows that the corpus comparison approach works reasonably well with around 86% overlap with the results from the rating scale approach. It also shows that the corpus comparison approach using word types is a reasonably simple and practical way of identifying terms.

Keywords: identifying technical terms, corpus comparison approach, ratio, range and frequency of word forms, rating scale

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