Candidate Term

A Candidate Term is a Terminological Unit that is under consideration for addition into a Controlled Vocabulary.

• See: Terminology Extraction Task.

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References

2005

• (ANSI Z39.19, 2005) ⇒ ANSI. (2005). “ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." ANSI.
  • candidate term A term under consideration for admission into a controlled vocabulary because of its potential usefulness. Also known as provisional term.

2001

• (Jacquemin, 2001) ⇒ Christian Jacquemin. (2001). “Spotting and Discovering Terms Through Natural Language Processing." MIT Press. ISBN:0262100851
  • Candidate term: A candidate term is a term produced by automatic acquisition that has not been manually validated.

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