Towards terminological resources tailored to the users' needs: Terminology extraction based on appositive constructions.

This article focuses on a methodology for extracting specialized terminology and relevant linguistic information from bilingual Italian–English corpora using appositive constructions, with a case study in the domain of Cultural Heritage, specifically archaeology. The approach leverages syntactic patterns of appositions—phrases that provide reformulations or explanations of technical terms—to identify candidate terms suitable for different terminological resources (TRs) tailored to three user groups: translators and interpreters (TIs), technical communicators (TCs), and the general public (GP). The authors compiled the PILLAR parallel corpus of Italian and English texts aimed at non-expert audiences, applied corpus linguistics techniques including part-of-speech tagging and Corpus Query Language (CQL) queries to extract appositive constructions, and analyzed the semantic relations between anchors and supplements. The extracted data were used to develop three types of TRs addressing the distinct needs of the target users, with plans for further validation, expansion, and standardization of the resources.