Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons
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David A. Hull
Abstract
Many problems in terminology translation can be solved by working with existing translated texts. However, large-scale bilingual lexicon building from previously translated documents takes a lot of human effort. This chapter describes an automatic terminology alignment algorithm that can be used as a valuable pre-processing step in the interactive process of lexicon construction. The system can present the human expert with a summary of the plausible translations of high enough quality that it can reduce the number of sentences which need to be read by roughly a factor of five in many cases. When compared to a manually constructed lexicon in a particular case study, the automatic system achieved a precision of 56% and an exact recall of 70%. In addition, more than half the remaining terms can be obtained with minimal edit operations on the extracted text.
Abstract
Many problems in terminology translation can be solved by working with existing translated texts. However, large-scale bilingual lexicon building from previously translated documents takes a lot of human effort. This chapter describes an automatic terminology alignment algorithm that can be used as a valuable pre-processing step in the interactive process of lexicon construction. The system can present the human expert with a summary of the plausible translations of high enough quality that it can reduce the number of sentences which need to be read by roughly a factor of five in many cases. When compared to a manually constructed lexicon in a particular case study, the automatic system achieved a precision of 56% and an exact recall of 70%. In addition, more than half the remaining terms can be obtained with minimal edit operations on the extracted text.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vi
- Introduction viii
- A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters 1
- The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval 29
- Automatic term detection 53
- Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources 89
- Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine 111
- Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB) 127
- Qualitative terminology extraction 149
- General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction 167
- Detection of synonymy links between terms 185
- Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures 209
- Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons 225
- Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval 245
- Term extraction using a similarity-based approach 261
- Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography 279
- Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction 303
- Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon 327
- Term extraction for automatic abstracting 353
- About the contributors 371
- Subject Index 377
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vi
- Introduction viii
- A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters 1
- The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval 29
- Automatic term detection 53
- Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources 89
- Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine 111
- Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB) 127
- Qualitative terminology extraction 149
- General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction 167
- Detection of synonymy links between terms 185
- Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures 209
- Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons 225
- Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval 245
- Term extraction using a similarity-based approach 261
- Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography 279
- Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction 303
- Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon 327
- Term extraction for automatic abstracting 353
- About the contributors 371
- Subject Index 377
