Wolof Terminology: Lexical Morphology and Sociolinguistic Implications

Wh-Morphology and Cyclicity in Wolof

Inducing Terminology for Lexical Acquisition

Few attention has been paid to terminology extraction for what concerns the possibilities it offers to corpus linguistics and lexical acquisition. The problem of detecting terms in textual corpora has been approached in a complex framework. Terminology is seen as the acquisition of domain specific knowledge (i.e. semantic features, selectional restrictions) for complex terms and /or unknown wor...

Lexical Ontology Extraction Using Terminology Analysis

The majority of work described in this paper was conducted as part of the Recovering Evidence from Video by fusing Video Evidence Thesaurus and Video MetaData (REVEAL) project, sponsored by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). REVEAL is concerned with reducing the time-consuming, yet essential, tasks undertaken by UK Police Officers when dealing with terascale co...

SimpleScience: Lexical Simplification of Scientific Terminology

Lexical simplification of scientific terms represents a unique challenge due to the lack of a standard parallel corpora and fast rate at which vocabulary shift along with research. We introduce SimpleScience, a lexical simplification approach for scientific terminology. We use word embeddings to extract simplification rules from a parallel corpora containing scientific publications and Wikipedi...

Lexicographyfor Specialised Languages - Terminology and Terminography Retrieving and Codifying Lexical Information in Process Oriented Terminology Management

The emergence of new information media has had an impact on the working methods of lexicography and terminology as well as in the products obtained. Among the new media, knowledge bases are a valuable source that allows for information to be tailored to the needs of different users. We present several ways of codifying lexical and phraseological information in order to build a knowledge base on...