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Terminology
Vol. 24:2 (2018) ► pp.149–180

Building controlled bilingual terminologies for the municipal domain and evaluating them using a coverage estimation approach

| Nagoya University
| The University of Tokyo

This article examines the status of constructed controlled terminologies from the perspective of the coverage of terms/concepts. To facilitate controlled authoring of Japanese texts of the municipal domain and promote machine translatability into English, we constructed terminologies in the following way: (1) Japanese-English term pairs are extracted from aligned texts; (2) term variations are controlled by defining preferred and proscribed terms for both languages. To assess the coverage of the constructed terminologies, we propose a quantitative extrapolation method that estimates the potential vocabulary size. The coverage estimations show that the coverage of terms for Japanese is higher than that for English by about 10%, which reflects the greater diversity of the translated English terms. The coverage of concepts reaches around 60% for both Japanese and English. The method also enables us to quantitatively estimate how much effort is needed to further increase the coverage.

Keywords: controlled bilingual terminology, term variation management, coverage estimation, vocabulary growth, municipal domain
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Related work
    • 2.1Term extraction
    • 2.2Term variation management
    • 2.3Terminology evaluation
  • 3.Building controlled bilingual terminology
    • 3.1Parallel corpus compilation
    • 3.2Term collection
      • 3.2.1Terms to be collected
      • 3.2.2Term extraction platform and procedure
      • 3.2.3Extracted terms
    • 3.3Typology of term variation
    • 3.4Terminology control
  • 4.The coverage estimation approach to evaluate constructed terminologies
    • 4.1Self-referring coverage estimation
    • 4.2Expected number of terms
    • 4.3Growth rate of terms
    • 4.4Conditions to be observed
  • 5.Results and discussions
    • 5.1Population types and present status of terminologies
    • 5.2Growth patterns of terminology
    • 5.3Examination of models with different data points
    • 5.4Use of lexical items for the coverage estimation of terminology
  • 6.Conclusions and future work
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2018
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