technical terminology as a critical resource

• DOI: 10.5167/uzh-19096
• Publication Date: 2002-01-01
• Authors: Dowdall, J; Hess, M; Kahusk, N; Kaljurand, K; Koit, M; Rinaldi, Fabio; Vider, K
• Keywords: 3310 Linguistics and Language; 10105 Institute of Computational Linguistics; 410 Linguistics; 3309 Library and Information Sciences; 000 Computer science, knowledge & systems; 1203 Language and Linguistics; 3304 Education

Technical documentation is riddled with domain specic terminology which needs to be detected and properly organized in order to be meaningfully used. In this paper we describe how we coped with the problem of terminology detection for a specic type of document and how the extracted terminology was used within the context of our Answer Extraction System.