Towards Terminology Management Automation for Arabic

Abstract: This paper presents a method and supporting tools for automation of terminology management for Arabic. The tools extract lists of parallel terminology matching terms in foreign languages to their Arabic counterparts from field specific texts. This has significant implications as it can be used to improve consistent translation and use of terms in specialized Arabic academic books, and provides automated aid for enhancing cross lingual text processing. This automation of terminology management aims to reduce processing time, and ensure use of consistent and correct terminology. The extraction takes advantage of naturally occurring term translations. It considers several candidate phrases of varying lengths that co-occur next to the foreign terms. Then it computes several similarity metrics, including lexicographic, phonetic, morphological, and semantic ones to decide the problem. We experiment with heuristic, machine learning, and ML with post processing approaches. This paper reports on a novel curated dataset for the task, an existing expert reviewed industry parallel corpora, and on the performance of the three approaches. The best approach achieved 94.9% precision and 92.4% recall.