[Corpora-List] Resources for evaluating term extraction

[Kevin B. Cohen]

Hi, Adam,

I would recommend talking with Sophia Ananiadou, the creator of TerMine.

Kev



On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The Sketch Engine now supports term extraction for many languages - and we
> want to evaluate it.
>
> For that, we need domain corpora in which somebody has gone through
> identifying all the 'true' terms.  Then we can compute our system's
> precision and recall.
>
> We are aware of GENIA, for English, and are using that already (key
> citation here: A comparative evaluation of term recognition algorithms<http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=VsRwsN8AAAAJ&citation_for_view=VsRwsN8AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C>
>  2008: Z Zhang, J Iria, CA Brewster, F Ciravegna)
>
> Any corpus with "the terms it contains", conscientiously produced, will
> help us.
>
> Pointers please!
>
> Adam
>
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