Term and Lexicon Entry Creation Sample Clauses

Term and Lexicon Entry Creation. All entries which have passed the filter so far must be brought into a proper canonical form. The creation of lexicon entries for source and target consists of two parts:  Creating proper lemmata. This is required for both term and lexicon use.  Creating proper lexicon entries. This is relevant if the extracted terms are to be integrated into MT systems; such systems usually require certain annotations (at least part of speech information). Lemma creation implies the creation of a canonical form for the entry. This has two aspects:  Truecasing of all lemma parts: Proper names and German common nouns should be capitalized, the other forms lowercased.  Production of the canonical form of the lemma. The head (or the term if it is a single word) is lemmatised, and the lemma is given as canonical form. In multiword entries, the head position is given in the pattern. The modifiers in a multiword entry are treated as follows: Head-modifying adjectives must be set into gender-number-agreement with their head (it „cardiopatia coronarica’, es „cuestión política’)8. Therefore the production of the lemma of multiword entries requires knowledge about the gender of the head. To provide this, a special component (gender defaulter) has been added to the system which consults an appropriate resource; depending on the gender of the noun, the adjective is inflected9. The post-head modifiers of the multiword stay in their inflected form: de „Oberfläche mit 8 In German, there are even two options, the weak inflection (<das> „niedrige Zinsniveau’) or the strong one (<ein> „niedriges Zinsniveau’).Both can be found in dictionaries; the strong inflection is more difficult as it requires knowledge of the head noun gender; unfortunately this is the form expected by the backend MT system.