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A study of semantic projection from single word terms to multi-word terms in the environment domain
LREC 2020 Workshop Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 11–16 May 2020, (2020)
Abstract
The semantic projection method is often used in terminology structuring to infer semantic relations between terms. Semantic projectionrelies upon the assumption of semantic compositionality: the relation that links simple term pairs remains valid in pairs of complexterms built from these simple terms. This paper proposes to investigate whether this assumption commonly adopted in natural languageprocessing is actually valid. First, we describe the process of constructing a list of semantically linked multi-word terms (MWTs) relatedto the environmental field through the extraction of semantic variants. Second, we present our analysis of the results from the semanticprojection. We find that contexts play an essential role in defining the relations between MWTs.
