Domain-specific lexical analysis

A method comprising:

• initiating, at an electronic device, an analysis of a domain-specific corpus associated with a particular domain to:
• identify the particular domain;
• and
• identify a base term and a modifier term, the base term and the modifier term identified independently from the particular domain, wherein the modifier term:
• (i) modifies the base term in at least a portion of the domain-specific corpus, and (ii) is designated as a modifier term based, at least in part, upon a co-occurrence statistics that indicate that an identified term appears to modify the base term a minimum number of times;
• accessing, by the electronic device, a first entry in lexicon data, wherein the lexicon data is accessible by the electronic device prior to the initiating and is configured for use at the electronic device in a language processing operation, the first entry including core data corresponding to domain-independent lexical information for the base term;
• adding, based on the analysis, non-core data to the first entry, the non-core data corresponding to domain-specific lexical information for the base term, wherein the non-core data identifies the modifier term and the particular domain;
• determining that a first portion of the non-core data is in a specific position relative to the identified base term;
• responsive to the determination that the first portion of the non-core data is in the specific position relative to the identified base term, generating a first collocation rule;
• and
• responsive to the generation of the first collocation rule, parsing, with the first collocation rule, the first entry in lexicon data to determine a first future placement for the first portion of the non-core data.