Conceptual Structuring through Term Variations

Term extraction systems are now an integral part of the compiling of specialized dictionaries and updating of term banks. In this paper, we present a term detection approach that discovers, structures, and infers conceptual relationships between terms for French. Conceptual relationships are deduced from specific types of term variations, morphological and syntagmatic, and are expressed through lexical functions. The linguistic precision of the conceptual structuring through morphological variations is of 95%.