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applied NLP > information retrieval > information extraction > term extraction

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term extraction  

Definition

  • The act/process of identifying and extracting candidate terms from a domain-specific corpus. (Loterre)

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Synonym(s)

  • terminology extraction

Definitional context(s)

  • The goal of terminology extraction is to extract relevant words or phrases from a given corpus automatically. (Dowlagar & Mamidi, 2020)

Example

  • In the majority of cases using a terminology extraction tool implies extraction of terms by the program and validation of the candidate terms by a human. (Sauron, 2002)
  • Terminology extraction also known as term extraction is a subtask of information extraction. (Dowlagar & Mamidi, 2020)
  • The main stages in terminology work can be summarized as: extraction of terms from a corpus; validation of terms found; organisation of validated terms by domain and sub-domain. (Sauron, 2002)

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