Morpho-syntactic clues for terminological processing in Serbian
Goran Nenadić, Irena Spasić, Sophia Ananiadou · 2003
In this paper we discuss morpho-syntactic clues that can be used to facilitate terminological processing in Serbian. A method (called srCe) for automatic extraction of multiword terms is presented. The approach incorporates a set of generic morpho-syntactic filters for recognition of term candidates, a method for conflation of morphological variants and a module for foreign word recognition. Morpho-syntactic filters describe general term formation patterns, and are implemented as generic regular expressions. The inner structure together with the agreements within term candidates are used as clues to discover the boundaries of nested terms. The results of the terminological processing of a textbook corpus in the domains of mathematics and computer science are presented.