Extraction of Terms from Technical Manuals of Technological Products: An Application in Textual Adaptation Systems
Abstract
In tasks that require the use of technical documentation, the quality of the texts is critical. If the documentation is imprecise, incomplete or too complex, it increases the cost of realizing the tasks and might lead to higher accident rates. This work reports on how the procedural relationships (Goldman’s procedural relations of Generation and Enablement) are represented in portuguese technical manuals and can be used to generate an automatic term extraction method, specifically in the context of technical manuals. We also present the adaptation of a simplified texts authoring system to assist the elaboration of technical manuals. The adaptation of the authoring system uses the list of candidate terms extracted to: (a) help identify words that should not be simplified by lexical simplification methods, and (b) elaborate the technical terms, to improve the understanding of texts.
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van der Eijk, P. (1997). Controlled languages in technical documentation, Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, 1997.
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Siddharthan, A. (2003): Syntactic Simplification and Text Cohesion. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge (2003).
Specia, L.; Aluísio, S. M.; Pardo, T. A. S. (2008). Manual de Simplificação Sintática para o Português. Série de Relatórios do Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional (NILC-TR-08-06), 27 p., Junho 2008, São Carlos-SP. Disponível em: [link].
Teline, M. F. (2004). Avaliação de métodos para extração automática de terminologia de textos em português. ICMC-USP, São Carlos, 2004. Dissertação de Mestrado.
Urano, K. (2000): Lexical Simplification and Elaboration: Sentence comprehension and incidental vocabulary acquisition. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu (2000). Disponível em: [link]
Watanabe, W.M., Candido Jr, A., Amancio, M.A., Oliveira, M., Pardo, T.A.S., Fortes, R.P.M., Aluísio, S.M. (2010). Adapting web content for low-literacy readers by using lexical elaboration and named entities labeling. In the Proceedings of the W4A-7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility 2010, (2010). Nova York: ACM Press, v. 1, 1--9 (2010)
Young, D.N. (1999). Linguistic simplification of SL reading material: Effective Instructional Practice? The Modern Language Journal, 83(3), 350--366 (1999)
Rahimi, M. Y. (2011). Use of Syntactic Elaboration Techniques to Enhance Comprehensibility of EST Texts. English Language Teaching, Vol. 4, No. 1, 11-17.
Published
2011-07-19
How to Cite
MUNIZ, Fernando A. M.; WATANABE, Willian M.; SCARTON, Carolina E.; ALUISIO, Sandra M..
Extraction of Terms from Technical Manuals of Technological Products: An Application in Textual Adaptation Systems. In: INTEGRATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE SEMINAR (SEMISH), 38. , 2011, Natal/RN.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2011
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ISSN 2595-6205.
