Unit 8 - Terminology Recognition and Extraction
8.1.1 - eXercise

Read the paragraph below and fill in the missing words:
1. The purpose of term extraction is to uncover term
contained within the document under scrutiny.2. Term extraction performed prior to translating an unfamiliar document helps translator with setting up a project
.3.
is the minimum number of repetition the term candidate must appear in the text in order to be recognized by a term extraction tool.
Assess the following statements correctly to prove your understanding of this unit's content:
1. Terminology extraction will always extract all terms contained within a text to be translated.
True False
2. Most text extraction tools are bilingual, only a few can work with texts in a single language.
True False
3. The output of term extraction tools is never quite accurate, therefore human intervention is needed to decide which of term candidates are terms.
True False