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Term variation in specialised corpora : characterisation, automatic discovery and applications /

This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years. This book presents the first complete inventory of term variants and the linguistic procedures that lead to their formation. It a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daille, Béatrice (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Terminology and lexicography research and practice ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Term Variation in Specialised Corpora; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Preliminary example; 1.2 Variants and terminological analysis; Variants and theories of terminology; Variants and neonymy; 1.3 The automatic detection of variants; 1.4 Variants and applications; 1.5 Typographical conventions; Part I. Characterisation; Chapter 2. Definitions; 2.1 Term; 2.2 Derivation; 2.3 Compounding; 2.3.1 Morphological compounds; 2.3.2 Border between derivation and compounding; 2.3.3 Syntagmatic compounds.
  • 2.3.4 Border between morphological and syntagmatic compounds2.4 Borrowing; 2.5 Term patterns; 2.5.1 Simple term patterns; 2.5.2 Morphological compound patterns; 2.5.3 Syntagmatic compound patterns; 2.5.4 Frequency of term patterns; 2.6 Term variants; 2.6.1 The definition of variant; 2.6.2 Denominative variants; 2.6.3 Conceptual variants; 2.7 Border between terms and variants; Chapter 3. Conceptualisation of terminological variants; 3.1 Description of variants; 3.1.1 Organisation of variants; 3.1.2 Mechanisms and linguistic operations; 3.1.3 Properties of variants; 3.2 Denominative variants.
  • 3.2.1 Synonymic substitution3.2.2 Simplification; 3.2.3 Exemplification; 3.2.4 Competing patterns; 3.3 Conceptual variants; 3.3.1 Expansion; 3.4 Linguistic variants; 3.4.1 Graphics and spelling; 3.4.2 Inflection; 3.4.3 Derivation; 3.4.4 Fullback-compounding; 3.4.5 Modification; 3.4.6 Coordination, disjunction and enumeration; 3.5 Variants of register; 3.5.1 Variation of scientification/popularisation; 3.5.2 Variants of position; 3.6 Borders between categories of variants; 3.6.1 Denominative and linguistic variants; 3.6.2 Denominative and conceptual variants.
  • 3.6.3 Conceptual and linguistic variantsChapter 4. Semantics of conceptual variants; 4.1 Structuring terms; 4.1.1 Conceptual and semantic relations; 4.1.2 Classic semantic relations; 4.1.3 Collocation; 4.1.4 Lexical functions; 574.2 Fundamental relations between term and variant; 4.2.1 Synonymy; 4.2.2 Hierarchical relations; 4.3 Complex relations between term and variant; 4.3.1 Result; 4.3.2 Plurality; 4.3.3 Spatiality; 4.3.4 Temporality; 4.3.5 Quality; 4.4 Other relations between term and variant; 4.4.1 Predication; 4.4.2 Instance; Part II. Automatic discovery.
  • Chapter 5. Primitive exploration of variants using comparable corpora5.1 Comparable corpora; 5.1.1 Corpus; 5.1.2 Properties; 5.1.3 Collecting comparable corpora; 5.1.4 Comparability; 5.2 Comparable corpora used in this study; Breast cancer; Diabetes; Renewable energy; 5.3 Looking for variants; 5.3.1 Implementation; 5.3.2 N-gram massive data; 5.3.3 Unigrams; 5.3.4 Skip-grams; 5.3.5 Categories of variants facing data; 5.4 Comparison according to communication levels; 5.4.1 Unigrams; 5.4.2 Skip-grams; Chapter 6. Processing methods for the detection of variants from corpora.