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Record W4410672287 · doi:10.1075/term.00085.wis

Impact of automatic term extraction on terminology work

2025· article· en· W4410672287 on OpenAlexaff
Tanja Wissik

Bibliographic record

VenueTerminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
Topiclinguistics and terminology studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTerminologyTerm (time)Work (physics)Extraction (chemistry)Computer scienceEngineeringLinguisticsMechanical engineeringChemistryPhilosophyChromatographyPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract A crucial task in any type of terminology work is identifying and extracting terms from relevant sources, which can be done manually or via (semi-)automatic term extraction processes. Given the recent advances in automatic term extraction (ATE) research, this paper explores the impact of ATE on terminology work in institutional settings (academic institutions, administrations, European institutions and international organizations) based on qualitative data. The analysis of 15 semi-structured expert interviews conducted in 2023 shows that the newest advances in research in ATE have not had an immediate impact on terminology practices in institutional settings for the study participants. This paper aims to discuss the reasons for the slow uptake of ATE in institutional settings, such as the gap between ATE tools developed in research and ATE components integrated in off-the-shelf terminology or corpus management systems, the lack of integration into existing workflows, the lack of support for certain languages, especially for less-resourced languages, as well as reasons related to source materials.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.098
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.374
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.098
Threshold uncertainty score0.517

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0980.374
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0090.010
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0120.014
Open science0.0030.012
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.327 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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