Term Variation in Specialised Corpora : Characterisation, Automatic Discovery and Applications.

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 -- a. Competing structures -- b. Augmented/reduced structures -- c. Contextual structures -- D.3 Spanish -- a. Competing structures -- b. Augmented/reduced structures -- c. Contextual structures -- D.4 German -- a. Competing structures -- b. Augmented/reduced structures -- c. Contextual structures -- D.5 Russian -- a. Competing structures -- b. Augmented/reduced structures -- c. Contextual structures -- Index.

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.

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