Reference Lists for the Evaluation of Term Extraction Tools

In this paper, we discuss practical and methodological issues of the creation of reference term lists (RTLs) for the evaluation of monolingual and bilingual term candidate extraction from comparable corpora in the domains of wind energy and mobile technology. These reference term lists are intended to serve as a ”gold standard” for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of automatic term extraction tools. We present the preliminary results of the evaluation of the monolingual term extraction. Using the manually collected RTLs, we evaluated monolingual term candidate lists which are automatically extracted from the Spanish texts in the domain of wind energy.