Glossary items in specialized technical genres exhibit many of the problems associated with multiword expressions. This paper describes recent work on automatic glossary identification and extraction, and examines a number of issues arising when a glossary extraction technology is used as an enabling capability for a broad range of text processing applications. We outline an algorithm for glossary item identification, and discuss how a particular encapsulation of it addresses architectural, representational, and interface issues emerging during harnessing the technology for a number of applied tasks.
By: Youngja Park, Roy J. Byrd, Branimir K. Boguraev
Published in: RC23234 in 2004
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