Identifying Scientific and Technical “Unicorns”

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Unicorns in Finsler Geometry

By unicorns, I am referring to those mythical single-horned horse-like creatures for which there are only rumoured sightings by a privileged few. A similar situation exists in Finsler differential geometry. There, one has the hierarchy Euclidean ⊂ Minkowskian & Riemannian ⊂ Berwald ⊂ Landsberg among five families of metrics, in which the first two inclusions are known to be proper by virtue of ...

Scientific and Technical Knowledge Capitalisation at IRSN

Termight: Identifying and Translating Technical Terminology

We propose a semi-automatic tool, ter-might, that helps professional translators and terminologists identify technical terms and their translations. The tool makes use of part-of-speech tagging and word-alignment programs to extract candidate terms and their translations. Although the extraction programs are far from perfect, it isn't too hard for the user to filter out the wheat from the chaff...

Identifying Paraphrases between Technical and Lay Corpora

In previous work, we presented a preliminary study to identify paraphrases between technical and lay discourse types from medical corpora dedicated to the French language. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the same kinds of paraphrases as for French can be detected between English technical and lay discourse types and report the adaptation of our method from French to English. Starting...