Abstract
This paper presents a research for extracting technical terms from documents in the nursing domain.An exploratory study showed that a well-known term extraction method, which has proven to be effective in extracting technical terms specified to the computing domain, can not effectively extract technical words representing symptoms or treatments of diseases.We propose a new technical term extraction method to improve extraction performance.Its main characteristics are enhancing permissible combinations of word-class;and excluding fundamental vocabulary.Experimental results showed that our extraction method attained 99% recall, which is 16% better than the recall attained by the base method.In addition, 13% of precision rate is improved by excluding fundamental vocabulary.
