Author: Chung, Teresa Mihwa

Source: Terminology, Volume 9, Number 2, 2003 , pp. 221-246(26)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract:

This article examines one of the possible approaches to identifying technical terms: a corpus comparison approach using the range and frequency of word forms. In order to identify terms using the corpus comparison approach, a ratio is used as a tool based on the comparative range and frequency of word forms between a technical corpus and a comparison corpus. A rating scale approach is used as the basis for evaluating the corpus comparison approach.

The analysis shows that the corpus comparison approach works reasonably well with around 86% overlap with the results from the rating scale approach. It also shows that the corpus comparison approach using word types is a reasonably simple and practical way of identifying terms.

Keywords: identifying technical terms; corpus comparison approach; ratio; range and frequency of word forms; rating scale

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.9.2.05chu

Publication date: 2003-01-01

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