A corpus comparison approach for terminology extraction

Terminology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-246

  Chung, Teresa Mihwa ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corpus comparison approach; Identifying technical terms; Range and frequency of word forms; Rating scale; Ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751378542     PISSN: 09299971     EISSN: 15699994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/term.9.2.05chu     Document Type: Article

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