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Term Variation in Specialised Corpora: Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications
Béatrice Daille
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 19] 2017
► pp. 83–108

Chapter 5
Primitive exploration of variants using comparable corpora

Article outline
  • 5.1Comparable corpora
    • 5.1.1Corpus
    • 5.1.2Properties
      • Genre
      • Domain
      • Communication level
    • 5.1.3Collecting comparable corpora
    • 5.1.4Comparability
  • 5.2Comparable corpora used in this study
    • Breast cancer
    • Diabetes
    • Renewable energy
  • 5.3Looking for variants
    • 5.3.1Implementation
    • 5.3.2N-gram massive data
    • 5.3.3Unigrams
      • Derivations and compounds
      • Word splitting characters
      • Reliability of unigrams
      • Analysis of Fr unigrams
      • Analysis of En unigrams
      • Analysis of Es unigrams
      • Analysis of De unigrams
      • Analysis of Ru unigrams
    • 5.3.4Skip-grams
    • 5.3.5Categories of variants facing data
  • 5.4Comparison according to communication levels
    • 5.4.1Unigrams
      • Corpus Diabetes in Fr
      • Corpus Breast cancer in Fr and En
    • 5.4.2Skip-grams
      • Corpus Diabetes in Fr
      • Corpus Breast cancer in Fr and En
  • Notes