Automatic Annotation of Semantic Term Types in the Complete ACL Anthology Reference Corpus

In the present paper, we present an automated tagging approach aimed at enhancing a well-known resource, the ACL Anthology Reference Corpus, with semantic class labels for more than 20,000 technical terms that are relevant to the domain of computational linguistics. We use state-of-the-art classification techniques to assign semantic class labels to technical terms extracted from several reference term lists. We also sketch a set of research questions and approaches directed towards the integrated analysis of scientific corpora. To this end, we query the data set resulting from our annotation effort on both the term and the semantic class level level.

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