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Term Variation in Specialised Corpora
Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications
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This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years. This book presents the first complete inventory of term variants and the linguistic procedures that lead to their formation. It also takes into account issues raised by multilingual applications and presents ways to detect variants in five different languages: French, English, German, Spanish and Russian.
The book provides insights into the following issues: What is a variant? What are the main linguistic mechanisms involved in the transformation of base terms into variants? How can variants be automatically detected in texts? Should variation be taken into account in natural language processing applications?
This book is targeted at terminologists and linguists interested in term variation as well as researchers in natural language processing and computer science that must handle term variants in different kinds of applications.
The book provides insights into the following issues: What is a variant? What are the main linguistic mechanisms involved in the transformation of base terms into variants? How can variants be automatically detected in texts? Should variation be taken into account in natural language processing applications?
This book is targeted at terminologists and linguists interested in term variation as well as researchers in natural language processing and computer science that must handle term variants in different kinds of applications.
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 19] 2017. xii, 272 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 July 2017
Published online on 27 July 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
- Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–8
- Part I. Characterisation
- Chapter 2. Definitions | pp. 11–31
- Chapter 3. Conceptualisation of terminological variants | pp. 33–65
- Chapter 4. Semantics of conceptual variants | pp. 67–80
- Part II. Automatic discovery
- Chapter 5. Primitive exploration of variants using comparable corpora | pp. 83–108
- Chapter 6. Processing methods for the detection of variants from corpora | pp. 109–124
- Chapter 7. Grammar of variants | pp. 125–146
- Chapter 8. Synonymic variants | pp. 147–168
- Part III. Applications and tools
- Chapter 9. Terminology extraction | pp. 171–203
- Chapter 10. End-user applications and tools | pp. 205–221
- Part IV. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Term variants and their discovery | pp. 225–233
- Bibliography | pp. 235–246
- Notation
- Appendix A.. Notation | p. 247
- Appendix B.. Multext categories | pp. 249–250
- Appendix C.. Search with Antconc | pp. 251–255
- Appendix D.. GGRV | pp. 257–269
- Index
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