Terminology Finding in the Sketch Engine

Terminology finding in the Sketch Engine involves identifying terms in a corpus, determining their relevance through unithood and termhood, and utilizing grammar for analysis. The process includes assessing frequency in domain versus reference corpora, collaborating with experts, and applying keyness formulas for keyword extraction.

• Terminology Finding
• Sketch Engine
• Corpus Analysis
• Domain Reference
• Language Processing

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1. Terminology-finding in the Sketch Engine Milo Jakub ek, Adam Kilgarriff, Vojt ch Kov , Pavel Rychl , Vit Suchomel Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton, UK & Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 1

2. Terminology Problem #1 Finding it 2

3. Terminology Problem #1 Finding it Existing lists Ask experts Corpora 3

4. To find terms in a corpus Unithood For multi-word terms Do the words form a unit? Termhood Does it belong to the domain? 4

5. Unithood Grammar Terms are noun phrases (in canonical form, without the article) Requirements Noun phrase grammar Prerequisites: tokeniser, lemmatiser, POS-tagger Parsing machinery 5

6. Termhood Frequency in domain corpus vs reference corpus Same as keywords Requirements Formula for keyness Domain corpus Reference corpus 6

7. In the Sketch Engine 7

8. Unithood Grammar Terms are noun phrases (in canonical form, without the article) Requirements Noun phrase grammar To date: Chinese English French Japanese Korean Spanish In progress: German Portuguese Russian Collaboration with experts Prerequisites: tokeniser, lemmatiser, POS-tagger Available/installed for languages above and several others Parsing machinery In place: variant on word sketches infrastructure 8

9. Termhood Frequency in domain corpus vs reference corpus Same as keywords Requirements Formula for keyness Kilgarriff 2009: Simple maths for keywords Ratio of normalised frequencies (with simplemaths parameter Domain corpus Existing machinery for Instant corpora from the web: WebBootCaT Uploading/installing your own corpus Reference corpus Large web corpora: sixty languages 9

10. <Examples ... En, Fr, Korean> All what do you think looks prettiest/best From WIPO or plain? Mixed? I can revisit tomorrow 10

11. Processing chains Tokeniser-lemmatiser-POS-tagger Must be identical for Reference corpus (batch mode) Domain corpus (runtime) Recent work Processing chains reviewed Separated out for independent application 11

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13. Current status Lead customer WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) terminology group of their translation dept Five languages: delivered Added functionality, blacklists etc All customers First version in beta 13

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16. Current challenge Lemmas and word forms When to user singular, when plural Adjective-noun agreement nu e ardente volcanology: Fr for pyroclastic surge Feminine, often plural Lemmas: nu e ardent wrong Word forms: nu es ardentes a little bit wrong 16

17. Summary Terminology-finding needs Term grammar Reference corpus + domain corpus All available in Sketch Engine Already, for English French Chinese Japanese Korean Russian Spanish Shortly for German Portuguese Others to follow as requested All set for you to use: feedback please! 17

18. Thank you http://www.sketchengine.co.uk http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk 18