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This paper presents the automatic terminology extraction approach developed within project LIQUID. This project aims at developing a cost-effective solution for the problem of cross-language access to multilingual text databases in technical and scientific domains. Cross-Language Information Retrieval faces a major challenge: organizing unstructured textual information according to its contents...

BACKGROUND Terminology and Lexicography have been especially addressed to the Allied Health Sciences regarding discussion of case reports or concerning publication of scientific articles. The knowledge of Human Anatomy enables the understanding of medical terms and the refinement of Medical Terminology makes possible a better anatomicomedical communication in a highly technical level. Most of t...

Bilingual terminology dictionaries are resources of much practical importance in many application of bilingual NLP. Because technical terminology can be both very specific and rapidly evolving, it can however be difficult to obtain dictionaries with good coverage. Mining automatically such terminology from technical documents is therefore an attractive possibility. With this goal in mind, and f...

This paper describes some of the strategies which a language services provider is compelled to adopt to deal with the issue of terminology. It is based on my experience at TransForm GmbH, a small LSP based in Cologne, Germany. Translators soon learn about terminology—how useful it is, how infuriating it can be, and its high potential for causing addictive, time-wasting behaviour (sometimes refe...