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Terminology extraction is an essential step in several fields of natural language processing such as dictionary and ontology extraction. In this paper, we present a novel graph-based approach to terminology extraction. We use SIGNUM, a general purpose graph-based algorithm for binary clustering on directed weighted graphs generated using a metric for multi-word extraction. Our approach is totally knowledge-free and can thus be used on corpora written in any language. Furthermore it is unsupervised, making it suitable for use by non-experts. Our approach is evaluated on the TREC-9 corpus for filtering against the MESH and the UMLS vocabularies.
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Ngonga Ngomo, AC. (2008). SIGNUM: A Graph Algorithm for Terminology Extraction. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_8
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