Tools for Terminology Processing

International audienceAutomatic terminology processing appeared 10 years ago when electronic corpora became widely available. Such processing may be statistically or linguistically based and produces terminology resources that can be used in a number of applications : indexing, information retrieval, technology watch, etc. We present the tools that have been developed in the IRIN Institute. They all take as input texts (or collection of texts) and reflect different states of terminology processing: term acquisition, term recognition and term structuring

Coping with Alternate Formulations of Questions and Answers

We present in this chapter the QALC system which has participated in the four TREC QA evaluations. We focus here on the problem of linguistic variation in order to be able to relate questions and answers. We present first, variation at the term level which consists in retrieving questions terms in document sentences even if morphologic, syntactic or semantic variations alter them. Our second subject matter concerns variation at the sentence level that we handle as different partial reformulations of questions. Questions are associated with extraction patterns based on the question syntactic type and the object that is under query. We present the whole system thus allowing situating how QALC deals with variation, and different evaluations

Cross-language Ontology Learning: Incorporating and Exploiting Cross-language Data in the Ontology Learning Process

Hans Hjelm. Cross-language Ontology Learning: Incorporating and Exploiting Cross-language Data in the Ontology Learning Process. NEALT Monograph Series, Vol. 1 (2009), 159 pages. © 2009 Hans Hjelm. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/10126

Introduction - Permanence et changements

Avec le web, les moteurs de recherche, les blogues et les wikis, la relation à l’information s’est transformée au point où les repères habituels s’émoussent et doivent être redéfinis de fond en comble. Du coup, le travail des archivistes et des bibliothécaires doit l’être tout autant. Riches d’une solide tradition et conscientes des défis posés par la modernité la plus radicale, les sciences de l’information se sont élargies. Mais il ne s’agit plus seulement de conserver et de diffuser le savoir, il s’agit d’en repenser le traitement et l’accès. Conçu par l’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) de l’Université de Montréal, cet ouvrage se situe au carrefour de deux grandes traditions, américaine et française, et a pour ambition de fournir les clés du monde des sciences de l’information en se fondant sur des savoirs pratiques et concrets. Les auteurs présentent ici un savoir à la fine pointe des sciences de l’information pour répondre à la complexité des enjeux actuels et futurs. Introduction, bibliographie, index et table des matières de l’ouvrage

Terminološka načela in oblikoslovnoskladenjske terminološke variacije

The article deals with terminological principles and terminological variability, with an emphasis on morphosyntactic terminological variations. Examples of such variations were empirically observed in a specialized corpus of texts on computer and information sciences. Based on the examples retrieved, the article presents a typology for describing morphosyntactic terminological variations in Slovenian. It also highlights the logical and conceptual relations established through such terminological variations.Članek obravnava tematiko terminoloških načel in terminološke variabilnosti, s poudarkom na oblikoslovno-skladenjskih terminoloških variacijah. Primeri tovrstnih terminoloških variacij so bili empirično opazovani v specializiranem korpusu besedil s področja računalništva in informatike. Na podlagi odkritih primerov članek ponuja tipologijo za opis oblikoslovno-skladenjskih variacij v slovenščini ter obenem ponazarja logične in pojmovne odnose, ki se vzpostavljajo s takšnimi variacijami

Term-driven E-Commerce

Die Arbeit nimmt sich der textuellen Dimension des E-Commerce an. Grundlegende Hypothese ist die textuelle Gebundenheit von Information und Transaktion im Bereich des elektronischen Handels. Überall dort, wo Produkte und Dienstleistungen angeboten, nachgefragt, wahrgenommen und bewertet werden, kommen natürlichsprachige Ausdrücke zum Einsatz. Daraus resultiert ist zum einen, wie bedeutsam es ist, die Varianz textueller Beschreibungen im E-Commerce zu erfassen, zum anderen können die umfangreichen textuellen Ressourcen, die bei E-Commerce-Interaktionen anfallen, im Hinblick auf ein besseres Verständnis natürlicher Sprache herangezogen werden