|Part of a series on| Terminology mining, term extraction, term
recognition, or glossary extraction, is a subtask of information
extraction. The goal of terminology extraction is to
automatically extract relevant terms from a given corpus. In the
semantic web era, a growing number of communities and networked
enterprises started to access and interoperate through the
internet. Modeling these communities and their information needs
is important for several web applications, like topic-driven web
crawlers, web services, recommender systems, etc. The
development of terminology extraction is essential to the
language industry. One of the first steps to model the knowledge
domain of a virtual community is to collect a vocabulary of
domain-relevant terms, constituting the linguistic surface
manifestation of domain concepts. Several methods to
automatically extract technical terms from domain-specific
document warehouses have been described in the literature.
Typically, approaches to automatic term extraction make u