%0 Journal Article %A Chung, Teresa Mihwa %T A corpus comparison approach for terminology extraction %D 2003 %J Terminology. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication %V 9 %N 2 %P 221-246 %@ 0929-9971 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/term.9.2.05chu %K ratio %K range and frequency of word forms %K rating scale %K identifying technical terms %K corpus comparison approach %I John Benjamins %X This article examines one of the possible approaches to identifying technical terms: a corpus comparison approach using the range and frequency of word forms. In order to identify terms using the corpus comparison approach, a ratio is used as a tool based on the comparative range and frequency of word forms between a technical corpus and a comparison corpus. A rating scale approach is used as the basis for evaluating the corpus comparison approach.The analysis shows that the corpus comparison approach works reasonably well with around 86% overlap with the results from the rating scale approach. It also shows that the corpus comparison approach using word types is a reasonably simple and practical way of identifying terms. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/term.9.2.05chu