Terminological variation, a means of identifying research topics from texts Fidelia I B E K W E - S A N J U A N C R I S T A L - G R E S E C , Stendhal University, Grenoble France and Dept. o f Information & C o m m u n i c a t i o n I U T du Havre - . 4006 - 76610 Le Havre France E-mail : fidelia@ Abstract After extracting terms from a corpus of titles and abstracts in English, syntactic variation relations are identified amongst them in order to detect.