Qualitative terminology extraction: Identifying relational adjectives

Béatrice Daille (1)

1 LS2N - équipe TALN - Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel

This paper presents the identification in corpora of French relational adjectives, phenomena considered by linguists as highly informative. The approach uses a termer which is applied on a tagged and lemmatized corpus. Relational adjectives and nominal compounds which include a relational adjective are then quantified and their informative status is evaluated thanks to a thesaurus of the domain. We conclude with a discussion of the interesting status of such adjectives and nominal compounds for terminology extraction and other automatic terminology tasks.

Mots clés: terminology; relational adjective; term extraction; denomination

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Béatrice Daille. Qualitative terminology extraction: Identifying relational adjectives. Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin, Marie-Claude L'Homme. Recent Advances in Computational Terminology, John Benjamins Publishing, pp.149-166, 2001, Natural Language Processing. ⟨hal-00820306⟩