Terminology in Everyday Life

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Marcel Thelen Frieda Steurs(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 25. Februar 2010

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Terminology in Everyday Life
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Introduction
1. General
2. Contributions in this book
Terminology and smaller language
Synonymy and variation in digital terrestrial television
1. Introduction: Motivations and methodology
2. The language of DVB_T: Main features and the notion of 'state of necessity'
2.1 Lexical borrowing
3. Synonymy and terminological variation
3.1 'Physiological' and 'pathological' synonymy
4. Cross-linguistic equivalences
5. Conclusion
References
Language (policy), translation and terminology in the European Union
1. Introduction
2. Language policy and translation
3. Translation policy and translation
4. Translation and terminology
4.1 The notion of translation in terminology
4.2 The interaction of languages and conceptual systems at EU-level
4.3 Multilingual term-creation within the EU conceptual system
4.4 Linguistic and conceptual variability of terms at EU-level
5. Conclusion
References
The situation and problems of Hungarian terminology
1. Introduction
1.1 Linguistic environment - The Hungarian language and speakers of Hungarian
1.2 A short history of Hungarian terminology
2. Present-day situation and problems of Hungarian terminology
2.1 Two important steps regarding terminology: The changed political system (1989), and accession to the European Union (2004)
2.2 Terminology work and research: Huge room for improvement
2.3 The situation of Hungarian terminology
2.4 Initiatives and solutions in Hungarian terminology
3. Conclusion
References
Translation-oriented terminology work in Hungary
1. The problem defined
2. Recent terminology activity in Hungary
3. Practice and theory
4. The term and the translation process
5. Terminology work in the social sciences
5.1 Collocations and quasi-synonyms in the Hungarian language
5.2 Differences in designation levels in language comparison
5.3 National terminology and EU terminology
5.3.1 Sozialrente in Germany
5.3.2 Sozialrente in the EU context
6. Conclusion
References
Towards a national terminology infrastructure
1. Introduction
2. The concept of 'terminology infrastructure'
3. Preconditions
4. A national centre for terminology - the TNC
4.1 Important prerequisites
4.2 Terminology projects
5. The TISS programme (terminology infrastructure for Sweden) (2002-2004)
6. Rikstermbanken - a Swedish national term bank
6.1 Reasons for creating a national term bank
6.2 Rikstermbanken: Contents
6.3 Rikstermbanken: Technology
7. Terminology co-ordination programme
7.1 The national board of health and welfare - a model authority for terminology work
8. Training needed!
9. How did the TNC get this far?
10. Conclusion
References
Best practices in terminology management
Terminology on demand
1. Introduction
2. TNC in the service of terminology
3. The query service: An overview
3.1 Users
3.2 Queries
3.2.1 Types of queries
3.2.2 Subject fields concerned
3.2.3 Languages involved
3.2.4 Origins and frequency
3.2.5 Complexity
3.2.6 Queries today and yesterday
4. Meeting users' needs: Who and how
4.1 Competence
4.2 Terminological resources
4.3 Query processing procedures
4.3.1 Reviewing a query
4.3.2 Searching for information
4.3.3 Preparing and delivering the response
A. Inventorying the results of the search
B. Evaluating the quality of the information obtained
C. Modifying and complementing the information obtained
D. Compiling a response report
E. Preparing the supplementary information
F. Delivering a response
4.3.4 Storing the information for future use
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Frames, contextual information and images in terminology
1. Introduction: Contextualizing context
2. Recent research in lexical semantics: FrameNet and Spanish FrameNet
3. Recent research in terminography: The case of MarcoCosta
4. Lexical semantics meets terminography: Definition in MarcoCosta and FrameNet
5. Frames, LUs and contextual information in coastal engineering
5.1 Finding the right frames
5.2 Finding the right contexts
5.3 Putting the images into context
6. Conclusion
References
How much terminological theory do we need for practice?
1. Introduction
2. Dealing with the 'itchy fingers syndrome'
3. A difference in perspectives
4. What can be understood by theory?
5. Which bits of theory?
6. Linking theory and practice
7. Problem-solving
8. Conclusion
References
Ontological support for multilingual domain-specific translation dictionaries
1. Introduction
2. Analytical dictionary of retailing
2.1 Conceptual foundation
2.2 Problems with formalization
3. Towards an ontology-based translation dictionary for the automotive domain
4. Conclusion
References
Possibilities of terminological databases for different applications
In praise of effective export terminology
1. Local products in international trade
2. Terminology and marketing
3. Examples
3.1 Armuña lentils
3.2 Foie gras
3.3 Yemas de Ávila
3.4 Pralines
3.5 Ham
4. Conclusion
References
Computer aided term bank creation and standardization
1. Introduction
2. Benefits of standardized term banks
3. Issues
4. Proposed semi-automatic term bank building process
4.1 The ITools suite
4.2 Grammatical analysis and interactive training (pre-alignment)
4.3 Automatic word alignment
4.4 Type aggregation and database storage
4.5 Term candidate detection, filtering, categorization and ranking
4.6 Revision and editing
5. Future work
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Competency-based job descriptions and termontography
1. Introduction
2. Semantic web technology in PoCeHRMOM
2.1 The semantic web and ontologies
2.2 Automatic exchange of competency-related information
3. Terminological variation
3.1 Previous work on terminological variation
3.2 How terminological variation is defined in the present study
4. Dealing with terminological variation in PoCeHRMOM
4.1 Termontography: Method and tool
4.2 Examples from PoCeHRMOM
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Proposals to standardize remote sensing terminology in Spanish
1. Introduction
2. An overview on remote sensing terminology standardization
3. An approach to remote sensing
3.1 Space electromagnetic remote sensing
3.2 Remote sensing terms in Spanish and English
4. Proposals to standardize remote sensing terminology in Spanish
4.1 Theoretical and methodological context
4.2 Method: bilingual corpus analysis
4.2.1 Corpus design and compilation
4.2.2 Procedural steps and corpus processing
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Terminology in a medical setting
The PERTOMed project
1. Introduction: The PERTOMed project
2. Multilingual terminology management within pharmacovigilance
2.1 Pharmacovigilance
2.2 International terminologies within pharmacovigilance
2.3 Pharmacy-related issues in Russia
3. Parallel vs. comparable text processing: State of the art
4. The trilingual PERTOMed corpus on adverse drug reactions
4.1 Parallel English/French sub-corpus
4.2 Comparable Russian sub-corpus
4.2.1 Sampling frame
4.2.2 Evaluation by Correspondence Analysis
4.3 Main lexicometric characteristics of the trilingual PERTOMed corpus
5. Term alignment in parallel English/French texts using SYNTEX
6. Mapping terms in comparable contexts
6.1 Corpus-based approach adopted within the PERTOMed project
6.2 Textometric browsing
6.2.1 Anchor points
6.2.2 Repeated segments extraction with Lexico3
6.2.3 Multiple co-occurrences networks computation with COOCS
7. Choosing terms and domains: Collaboration domain expert/corpus linguist
8. Results: Russian-French-English lexicon of adverse reaction terms
8.1 Qualities
8.2 Limits
9. Conclusion
References
Instrumentality in cognitive concept modelling
1. From concept modelling to instrumentality
2. A theoretical cognitive account of instrumentality
2.1 Terminology and instrumentality
2.2 Instrumentality in CL
2.2.1 Instrumentality and the causal chain
2.2.2 Conceptual entities
3. Methodology
3.1 Corpus
3.2 Method
4. Descriptive results
4.1 Instrumental typology
4.1.1 Things
4.1.2 Atemporal relations
4.1.3 Predicational type 'processes':
4.2 Typological salience
5. Conclusion
References
Biographical notes
Author index
Subject index
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