FlexiTerm: a software tool to automatically recognise multi-word terms in text documents.

FlexiTerm takes as input a corpus of ASCII documents and outputs a ranked list of automatically recognised multi-word terms.

If you use FlexiTerm in your work/research, please cite the following paper:

Spasić, I., Greenwood, M., Preece, A., Francis, N., & Elwyn, G. (2013). FlexiTerm: a flexible term recognition method. Journal of biomedical semantics, 4(1), 27.

For more information, please visit the FlexiTerm website.

Software requirements to run FlexiTerm:

• Java version "1.6.0" or above
• Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
• Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode)

How to run FlexiTerm:

1. Place plain text files into "text" folder.
2. OPTIONAL: Replace file stoplist.txt in "resources" folder with your own, if needed.
3. Run FlexiTerm.bat (Windows) or FlexiTerm.sh (Unix/Linux) at "script" folder from the command line.
4. Check results in "out" folder. They will be presented in different formats: txt, csv and html.

You can find more information about how to use or to extend FlexiTerm in the Wiki page associated to this repository.