Term extraction + term clustering
Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin · 1999
A novel technique for automatic thesaurus construction is proposed. It is based on the complementary use of two tools: (1) a Term Extraction tool that acquires term candidates from tagged corpora through a shallow grammar of noun phrases, and (2) a Term Clustering tool that groups syntactic variants (insertions). Experiments performed on corpora in three technical domains yield clusters of term candidates with precision rates between 93% and 98%.