A Method of Augmenting Bilingual Terminology by Taking Advantage of the Conceptual Systematicity of Terminologies

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method of augmenting existing bilingual terminologies. Our method belongs to a ``generate and validate'' framework rather than extraction from corpora. Although many studies have proposed methods to find term translations or to augment terminology within a ``generate and validate'' framework, few has taken full advantage of the systematic nature of terminologies. A terminology of a domain represents the conceptual system of the domain fairly systematically, and we contend that making use of the systematicity fully will greatly contribute to the effective augmentation of terminologies. This paper proposes and evaluates a novel method to generate bilingual term candidates by using existing terminologies and delving into their systematicity. Experiments have shown that our method can generate much better term candidate pairs than the existing method and give improved performance for terminology augmentation.

Tasks

Reproductions