Term variation in specialised corpora : characterisation, automatic discovery and applications / Béatrice Daille, University of Nantes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daille, Béatrice, author.

Series:

Terminology and lexicography research and practice ; v. 19.

Terminology and lexicography research and practice (tlrp), 1388-8455 ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Term Variation in Specialised Corpora

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Preliminary example

1.2 Variants and terminological analysis

Variants and theories of terminology

Variants and neonymy

1.3 The automatic detection of variants

1.4 Variants and applications

1.5 Typographical conventions

Part I. Characterisation

Chapter 2. Definitions

2.1 Term

2.2 Derivation

2.3 Compounding

2.3.1 Morphological compounds

2.3.2 Border between derivation and compounding

2.3.3 Syntagmatic compounds

2.3.4 Border between morphological and syntagmatic compounds

2.4 Borrowing

2.5 Term patterns

2.5.1 Simple term patterns

2.5.2 Morphological compound patterns

2.5.3 Syntagmatic compound patterns

2.5.4 Frequency of term patterns

2.6 Term variants

2.6.1 The definition of variant

2.6.2 Denominative variants

2.6.3 Conceptual variants

2.7 Border between terms and variants

Chapter 3. Conceptualisation of terminological variants

3.1 Description of variants

3.1.1 Organisation of variants

3.1.2 Mechanisms and linguistic operations

3.1.3 Properties of variants

3.2 Denominative variants

3.2.1 Synonymic substitution

3.2.2 Simplification

3.2.3 Exemplification

3.2.4 Competing patterns

3.3 Conceptual variants

3.3.1 Expansion

3.4 Linguistic variants

3.4.1 Graphics and spelling

3.4.2 Inflection

3.4.3 Derivation

3.4.4 Fullback-compounding

3.4.5 Modification

3.4.6 Coordination, disjunction and enumeration

3.5 Variants of register

3.5.1 Variation of scientification/popularisation

3.5.2 Variants of position

3.6 Borders between categories of variants

3.6.1 Denominative and linguistic variants

3.6.2 Denominative and conceptual variants.

3.6.3 Conceptual and linguistic variants

Chapter 4. Semantics of conceptual variants

4.1 Structuring terms

4.1.1 Conceptual and semantic relations

4.1.2 Classic semantic relations

4.1.3 Collocation

4.1.4 Lexical functions

574.2 Fundamental relations between term and variant

4.2.1 Synonymy

4.2.2 Hierarchical relations

4.3 Complex relations between term and variant

4.3.1 Result

4.3.2 Plurality

4.3.3 Spatiality

4.3.4 Temporality

4.3.5 Quality

4.4 Other relations between term and variant

4.4.1 Predication

4.4.2 Instance

Part II. Automatic discovery

Chapter 5. Primitive exploration of variants using comparable corpora

5.1 Comparable corpora

5.1.1 Corpus

5.1.2 Properties

5.1.3 Collecting comparable corpora

5.1.4 Comparability

5.2 Comparable corpora used in this study

Breast cancer

Diabetes

Renewable energy

5.3 Looking for variants

5.3.1 Implementation

5.3.2 N-gram massive data

5.3.3 Unigrams

5.3.4 Skip-grams

5.3.5 Categories of variants facing data

5.4 Comparison according to communication levels

5.4.1 Unigrams

5.4.2 Skip-grams

Chapter 6. Processing methods for the detection of variants from corpora

876.1 Linguistic-based methods

6.1.1 Morphological analysis

6.1.2 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis

6.1.3 Syntactic analysis

6.1.4 Distributional analysis

6.2 Algorithms on strings

6.2.1 Distance computed from common substrings

6.2.2 Edit distances

956.3 Statistical methods

6.4 Typology of variant occurrences

6.4.1 Isolated variant occurrences

6.4.2 Inter-mixed term and variant occurrences

6.4.3 Separated term and variant occurrences

6.5 Relationship between processing methods and types of occurrences

Chapter 7. Grammar of variants

7.1 Specifications and properties.

7.1.1 Expressivity of the syntagmatic rules

7.1.2 Core operations

7.1.3 Ambiguity of the syntactic analysis

7.2 Generic grammar of recognition of variants

7.2.1 Competing structures

7.2.2 Augmented/reduced structures

7.2.3 Contextual structures

7.2.4 Function words

7.2.5 Ad-hoc rules

7.3 Variant grammars for specific languages

7.4 Cross-lingual observations

7.4.1 Coverage

7.4.2 Precision

7.5 Summary of observations

Chapter 8. Synonymic variants

8.1 Distributional analysis

8.1.1 Modelling of a distributional method

8.1.2 Observations in specialised domains

8.2 Compositional method

8.3 Semi-compositional method

8.4 Cross-lingual and cross-method observations

8.4.1 Reference lists of synonyms

8.4.2 Experimental setup parameters

8.4.3 Evaluation measures

8.4.4 Results

8.5 Towards the detection of antonymic variants

Part III. Applications and tools

Chapter 9. Terminology extraction

9.1 The core of terminology extraction

9.2 Collecting candidate terms

9.2.1 Patterns

9.2.2 Generic rules

9.2.3 Borders

9.2.4 Lexical expansion

9.3 Filtering and sorting candidate terms

9.3.1 Frequency

9.3.2 Association measures

9.3.3 Specificity measures

9.3.4 Filtering by removing nested terms

9.3.5 Contextual filtering

1499.3.6 Supervised learning methods

1509.4 Evaluation

9.4.1 References

9.4.2 Measures

9.5 Comparing term extraction without and with variant recognition

9.6 Experimental setting

9.6.1 Corpora

9.6.2 Our integrated terminology extraction

9.6.3 Comparison protocol

9.6.4 Maximum recall

9.6.5 Observations with a posteriori RTL

9.6.6 Observations with a priori RTL

9.7 Summary of observations

Chapter 10. End-user applications and tools

10.1 Machine-aided indexing and FASTR.

10.2 Thematic cartography and TermWatch

10.3 TermSuite

10.3.1 Architecture

10.3.2 Token Regex

10.3.3 Compost

10.3.4 Variant grouping

10.3.5 Ranking by termhood

10.3.6 Performance

10.3.7 Release

Part IV. Conclusions

Chapter 11. Term variants and their discovery

11.1 Summary of the present study

11.1.1 A unified typology of term variants

11.1.2 A variety of methods for the discovery of variants

11.1.3 A terminology-resource building application

11.2 Remaining issues and direction for further research

11.2.1 Semantic analysis of variations

11.2.2 Distributional analysis at the morpheme level

18511.2.3 Recognition of other variants

11.3 Implications for related studies

11.3.1 Variants and paraphrases

18611.3.2 Variants and translation

Bibliography

Appendix A. Notation

A.1 Examples

A.2 Specialised domains

A.3 Specialised corpora

Appendix B. Multext categories

Appendix C. Search with Antconc

C.1 Parameters

C.2 Collection of n-grams

C.3 Results of n-grams

Appendix D. GGRV

D.1 French

a. Competing structures

b. Augmented/reduced structures

c. Contextual structures

D.2 English

D.3 Spanish

D.4 German

D.5 Russian

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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