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2325.1.2. English termsWe selected 84 verbs of the first 110 candidate terms proposed by TermoStat (Drouin2003). As some verbs have more than one specialized meaning, the verbs that we selectedcorrespond to 100 terms (Appendix 15).The following sections present the candidate termsthat were eliminated and the candidate terms that were retained as well as a classification ofboth.5.1.2.1. Eliminated candidate termsAbout one fourth (23.6%) of the English candidate terms were not retained, i.e. 26 out ofthe first 110 candidate terms extracted by TermoStat did not meet the validation criteria setout in the research. Appendix 13 lists the eliminated candidate terms along with their rankin the list of candidate terms, their frequency and specificity.As mentioned in chapter 4, there are two reasons why 23.6% of the Englishcandidate terms were eliminated. Firstly, some candidate terms correspond to erroneouspart of speech tagging due to part of speech ambiguities. For example, although accuse mayseem a relevant candidate term, in the corpus it is the noun form accused (as in ―Theaccused was sentenced to life prison.‖) that occurs extremely frequently, whereas verbforms appear only eight times. As the candidate term accuse seldom occurs as a verb form,it was immediately excluded, i.e. we did not proceed to apply the criteria for the validationof terms.While examining the concordances of the candidate terms, we identified five typesof part of speech ambiguities that led to the exclusion of the following 13 candidate terms,i.e. 50% of the eliminated candidate terms and 11.8% of the first 110 candidate terms: