Use of Greek and Latin Forms for Term Detection
Rosa Estopà, Jordi Vivaldi, M. Teresa Cabré · 2000
It is well known that many languages make use of neo-classical compounds, and that some domains with a very long tradition like medicine made an intense use of such morphemes.This phenomenon has been largely studied for different languages with the common result that a relatively short number of morphemes allows the detection of a high number of specialised terms to be produced.We believe that the use of such morphological knowledge may help a term detector in discovering very specialised terms.In this paper we propose a module to be included in a term extractor devoted specifically to detect terms that include neo-classical compounds.We describe such module as well the results obtained from it.