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Bilingual term recognition revisited

The bag-of-equivalents term alignment approach and its evaluation

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ID20395368
AuthorsŠpela Vintar (0000-0003-1934-0200, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume16
Issue2
Pages141-158
Publication date2010-12-07
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0929-9971 • E-ISSN: 1569-9994
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/term.16.2.01vin
OpenAlexW2047917219
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The paper describes LUIZ, a bilingual term recognition system that has been developed for the Slovene-English language pair. The system is a hybrid term extractor using morphosyntactic patterns and statistical ranking to propose domain-specific expressions for each of the two languages, whereupon translation equivalents between the languages are identified using the innovative bag-of-equivalents approach. This simple but effective method is based on the Twente word aligner to obtain a lexicon of single word translation pairs and their probability scores, which is then used to identify correspondences between multi-word terms. The bilingual term recognition system has been tested and evaluated on three parallel subcorpora from the tourism, accounting and military domain. Average precision of the term alignment component is 0.83, whereby only fully equivalent and domain-relevant terms were counted as positives. Another advantage of the described approach is the fact that we successfully detect term variants and multiple translations of a candidate multi-word term. Since our term alignment method does not require sentence-aligned corpora it can be used with comparable corpora, provided we already have a domain-specific lexicon or dictionary of single-word correspondences. The paper concludes with some thoughts on the users of term recognition systems and their needs based on our observations from the online version of the system

Lexicon · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Sentence · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Speech and dialogue systems · Artificial Intelligence

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Citation span2013 - 2025 (13)
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