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79author applied to the selection of terms of a specialized lexical resource. These criteriaare based on lexical semantics, more precisely on the Explanatory and CombinatorialLexicology (ECL) principles (Mel‘cuk et al. 1984-1999), a component of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT). The criteria were first proposed in L‘Homme (1998), developed inL‘Homme (2003) and reorganized in L‘Homme (2004). According to L‘Homme(2004), a given lexical item may be a term if:1) The lexical item has a meaning related to the subject field in question;2) The actants of the lexical item are terms themselves according to criterion 1;3) The morphological derivatives of the lexical item are terms themselvesaccording to criteria 1 and 2, and there is a semantic relation between the lexicalitem and its derivatives;4) The lexical item has other paradigmatic relations to other terms validated byall three criteria.For instance, to install (as in The user installs a firewall) is a term because: ithas a meaning related to the subject field of computing (1); its actants user, firewall,program and software are terms according to criterion 1 (2); its morphologicalderivative installation is a term according to criteria 1 and 2 and there is a semanticrelation between to install and installation (3); its antonym to uninstall is a term (4).L‘Homme (2004) argues that the first criterion is more easily applied to termsdenoting entities, whereas the last three criteria mainly apply to predicative units. As wewill see, these criteria are not completely different from those developed by Lorente(2002, 2007), to which we will refer in section 2.3.3. However, the applicability of thecriteria developed by L‘Homme is wider, in that they can be used with noun, verb,adjective and adverb terms, whereas Lorente‘s criteria are only applicable to verbs. Thiscontribution is also very relevant in terminology, in general, as to the best of our