Finding Terms in Corpora for Many Languages with the Sketch Engine

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KILGARRIFF Adam JAKUBÍČEK Miloš KOVÁŘ Vojtěch RYCHLÝ Pavel SUCHOMEL Vít

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 14th Conferencethe European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Field Informatics
Keywords terminology; terms; corpora; sketch engine
Description Term candidates for a domain, in a language, can be found by • taking a corpus for the domain, and a refer- ence corpus for the language • identifying the grammatical shape of a term in the language • tokenising, lemmatising and POS-tagging both corpora • identifying (and counting) the items in each corpus which match the grammatical shape • for each item in the domain corpus, compar- ing its frequency with its frequency in the refence corpus. Then, the items with the highest frequency in the domain corpus in comparison to the reference cor- pus will be the top term candidates. None of the steps above are unusual or innova- tive for NLP (see, e. g., (Aker et al., 2013), (Go- jun et al., 2012)). However it is far from trivial to implement them all, for numerous languages, in an environment that makes it easy for non- programmers to find the terms in a domain. This is what we have done in the Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2004), and will demonstrate. In this abstract we describe how we addressed each of the stages above.
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