RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Periñán-Pascual, Carlos YR 2015 T1 The underpinnings of a composite measure for automatic term extraction: The case of SRC JF Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication VO 21 IS 2 SP 151 OP 179 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/term.21.2.02per PB John Benjamins SN 0929-9971, AB The corpus-based identification of those lexical units which serve to describe a given specialized domain usually becomes a complex task, where an analysis oriented to the frequency of words and the likelihood of lexical associations is often ineffective. The goal of this article is to demonstrate that a user-adjustable composite metric such as SRC can accommodate to the diversity of domain-specific glossaries to be constructed from small- and medium-sized specialized corpora of non-structured texts. Unlike for most of the research in automatic term extraction, where single metrics are usually combined indiscriminately to produce the best results, SRC is grounded on the theoretical principles of salience, relevance and cohesion, which have been rationally implemented in the three components of this metric., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/term.21.2.02per