Identifying synonymous concepts in preparation for technology mining

  • Authors:
  • Cherie Courseault Trumbach;Dinah Payne

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Management, University of New Orleans,New Orleans, USA;Department of Management, University of New Orleans,New Orleans, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Information Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this research, the development of a `concept-clumping algorithm' designed to improve the clustering of technical concepts is demonstrated . The algorithm developed first identifies a list of technically relevant noun phrases from a cleaned extracted list and then applies a rule-based algorithm for identifying synonymous terms based on shared words in each term. An assessment of the algorithm found that the algorithm has an 89—91% precision rate, was successful in moving technically important terms higher in the term frequency list, and improved the technical specificity of term clusters.