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Publication details [#8339]
Nazarenko, Adeline and Touria Aït El Mekki. 2005. Building back-of-the-book indexes. In Ibekwe SanJuan, Fidelia, Anne Condamines and María Teresa Cabré Castellví, eds. Application-driven terminology engineering. Special issue of Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication 11 (1): 199–224. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal DOI
10.1075/term
Abstract
This paper presents an original natural language processing (NLP) approach for building of back-of-the-book indexes. The indexing system proposed, IndDoc, exploits some terminological tools and automatically builds an index draft of the analysis of the document text. The indexer then has to validate that index draft through a dedicated interface. This approach has been tested on several documents with promising results. Relying on their experience in developing and testing the IndDoc indexing system, the authors aim at assessing the contribution of terminological analysis as well as the level of maturity that computational terminology has reached in the indexing perspective.
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