Qualitative terminology extraction: Identifying relational adjectives

International audienceThis paper presents the identification in corpora of French relational adjectives, phenomena considered by linguists as highly informative. The approach uses a termer which is applied on a tagged and lemmatized corpus. Relational adjectives and nominal compounds which include a relational adjective are then quantified and their informative status is evaluated thanks to a thesaurus of the domain. We conclude with a discussion of the interesting status of such adjectives and nominal compounds for terminology extraction and other automatic terminology tasks