Adapting and evaluating a generic term extraction tool

On the basis of the term candidate extraction tools under development in the EU project TTC, we designed an application for German and English data that serves as a first evaluation of the approach and of the techniques for monolingual term candidate extraction used in the project. The application situation highlighted, among others, the need for tools to remove incomplete word sequences from multi-word term candidate lists, as well as the fact that the provision of German citation forms requires more morphological knowledge than TTC’s slim approach can provide. In the detailed evaluation of our extraction results, we profited from interaction with domain experts and from the fact that the same texts were used for both manual and automatic term extraction.