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The intensive use of terms of a specific terminology is admittedly one of the most distinguishing features of scientific and technical (sci-tech) texts. We propose to categorize the terms as either dictionary units of generally accepted terminology or new terms introduced into a sci-tech text to facilitate the description of new author’s concepts; we call such terms author’s. The pa- per discusses issues concerned with authors. terms, including frequent ways of their definition and using in sci-tech texts. It is argued that recognition of author’s sci-tech terms are important for NLP applications such as computer- aided scientific and literary editing, automatic text abstracting and summariza- tion, or acquiring of expert knowledge. A sketch of the procedure for recogni- tion of author’s terms with certain degree of accuracy is given.
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Bolshakova, E.I. (2001). Recognition of Author’s Scientific and Technical Terms. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2004. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44686-9_29
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