Using Wikipedia to Validate the Terminology found in a Corpus of Basic Textbooks

Jorge Vivaldi, Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Gerardo Sierra, María Pozzi

Abstract
A scientific vocabulary is a set of terms that designate scientific concepts. This set of lexical units can be used in several applications ranging from the development of terminological dictionaries and machine translation systems to the development of lexical databases and beyond. Even though automatic term recognition systems exist since the 80s, this process is still mainly done by hand, since it generally yields more accurate results, although not in less time and at a higher cost. Some of the reasons for this are the fairly low precision and recall results obtained, the domain dependence of existing tools and the lack of available semantic knowledge needed to validate these results. In this paper we present a method that uses Wikipedia as a semantic knowledge resource, to validate term candidates from a set of scientific text books used in the last three years of high school for mathematics, health education and ecology. The proposed method may be applied to any domain or language (assuming there is a minimal coverage by Wikipedia).
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L12-1284
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3820–3827
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Jorge Vivaldi, Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Gerardo Sierra, and María Pozzi. 2012. Using Wikipedia to Validate the Terminology found in a Corpus of Basic Textbooks. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3820–3827, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Using Wikipedia to Validate the Terminology found in a Corpus of Basic Textbooks (Vivaldi et al., LREC 2012)
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