Internal and external evidence in the identification and semantic categorization of proper names
Corpus processing for lexical acquisition
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
A step towards the detection of semantic variants of terms in technical documents
COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Automatic acquisition of hyponyms from large text corpora
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Terminology structuring through the derivational morphology
FinTAL'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
Query refinement through lexical clustering of scientific textual databases
NLDB'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Ontologies and terminologies: Continuum or dichotomy?
Applied Ontology - Ontologies and Terminologies: Continuum or Dichotomy?
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Terminology structuring has been the subject of much work in the context of terms extracted from corpora: given a set of terms, obtained from an existing resource or extracted from a corpus, identifying hierarchical (or other types of) relations between these terms. The present paper focusses on terminology structuring by lexical methods, which match terms on the basis on their content words, taking morphological variants into account. Experiments are done on a 'flat' list of terms obtained from an originally hierarchically-structured terminology: the French version of the US National Library of Medicine MeSH thesaurus. We compare the lexically-induced relations with the original MeSH relations: after a quantitative evaluation of their congruence through recall and precision metrics, we perform a qualitative, human analysis of the 'new' relations not present in the MeSH. This analysis shows, on the one hand, the limits of the lexical structuring method. On the other hand, it also reveals some specific structuring choices and naming conventions made by the MeSH designers, and emphasizes ontological commitments that cannot be left to automatic structuring.