A Large-Scale Resource for Storing and Recognizing Technical Terminology

This paper discusses the design and implementation of Termino, a large-scale terminological resource for text processing. Dealing with terminology is a difficult but unavoidable task for natural language processing applications, such as information extraction in technical domains. Complex, heterogeneous information must be stored about large numbers of terms. At the same time term recognition must be performed in realistic times. Termino attempts to reconcile this tension by maintaining a flexible, extensible relational database for storing terminological information and compiling finite state machines from this database to do term recognition.