edition - Die Fachzeitschrift für Terminologie

Autorinnen: Beate Früh und Annette Weilandt Taxonomies as well as terminologies are concept-oriented forms of knowledge representation. But how much do taxonomies and terminologies have in common? The article takes a closer look at products and methods of the two fields and gives some suggestions on how the two worlds can be combined to create synergies.

Autor: David Reininghaus In a modern knowledge economy, networked knowledge is a prerequisite for gaining competitive advantages. The science of terminology provides useful principles for elaborating and representing such knowledge structures. These principles are applied in modern technologies such as WIPO Pearl, which shows more than 18,500 patent-related concepts in interactive, multilingual concept maps.

Autorin: Jenny Seidel This article discusses the role of concept maps in terminology management. In concept maps, terminology is represented in graphs visualising the classification of concepts and their relationship to other concepts. The advantage is an improved, more intuitive access to terminology and, consequently, enhanced management of the company's knowledge.

Autoren: Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki Since 2011, the Schema.org initiative has set a standard for structured information. The technical communication community can already benefit and deliver valuable input for further progress.

Autoren: Petra Drewer, Donatella Pulitano und François Massion This article discusses the interaction between terminology and other fields of study pertaining to knowledge and knowledge representation, thus mutually enhancing the quality and value of tools and contents (terminology databases, ontologies, knowledge modelling, etc.). These new developments will affect terminologists and other language workers in the future.

Autorin: Kara Warburton The present article describes the creation of DatCatInfo, a Data Category Repository for language resources that replaces the former ISOcat. It raises key challenges such as the lack of a clear definition of what a data category is, and how to coherently organize them into thematic domains.

AutorIn: Rachel Herwartz und Holger Brüggemann Terminological consistency of designations on the graphical user interface (GUI) and in all parts of the product gains more and more signifi cance for the usability of software. Therefore, support to ensure linguistic and terminological quality is absolutely essential at all stages of the software development process. With the help of termXact Desktop Checker, it is possible to check both the GUI texts and the software documentation for use of the correct terminology.

Autorin: Farah Al Khatib As a hybrid tribunal of international character with Arabic, English and French as official languages, and applying both Lebanese law and international law to the crimes within its jurisdiction, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is unique in all its work aspects, including its terminology work. STL drafters and translators on the one hand, and terminology managers on the other hand, face considerable terminological challenges.

Autorin: Nicole Keller Congree ist ein Tool, das Autoren in puncto Konsistenz, Verständlichkeit und übersetzungsgerechtes Schreiben unterstützt. Es geht also primär um die Prüfung von einsprachigen Texten und nicht um die Überprüfung von korrekten oder konsistenten Übersetzungen. Ziel ist also in erster Linie, konsistentere und damit qualitativ hochwertigere Quelltexte zu erstellen, um z. B. auch nachgeschaltete Übersetzungsprozesse zu optimieren.

Autorinnen: Natascia Ralli und Klara Kranebitter bistro is the database of legal terminology in Italian, German and Ladin developed by Eurac Research. bistro is now online with a new design and new functions: filter by language, legal system and legal domain; search for synonyms; visualise collocations; access full bibliographic references from bibliographic sources in terminological entries.

Autor: Bassey E. Antia We are all too familiar with hand-written terminology-related notes on the margins of texts. Thanks to technology, these marginal notes can be semiotically remediated as widget-based glosses in order to maximise their utility and to enhance text comprehension in multilingual learning environments.

Autorin: Nicole Keller Die Plattform Coreon ist ein rein webbasiertes, multilinguales Wissenssystem, das im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Wissens- oder Terminologiesystemen verschiedene Ansätze aus beiden „Welten“ zur Datenverwaltung integriert. Zugrunde liegt hierbei zunächst eine einzelne Datenbank (Repository), in der die Wissens- und Terminologiedaten anhand mehrsprachiger Taxonomien, Thesauri-Strukturen sowie Klassifi kations- und Begriffssystemen strukturiert und abgebildet werden.

Autor: Tamara Arndt Emoji are heavily used in nowaday’s electronic communications all over the world. This article approaches the question whether emoji can be viewed as a universal language from both a technical and a terminological point of view. Three aspects are discussed in detail: the technical implementation, the interpretation, and the abstractiveness of emoji.

Autor: Felix Sasaki This article summarizes the state of linked-data in the realm of terminology. We will first describe what the linked-data paradigm is and which general application areas have emerged so far. We will then move from general considerations with regards to terminology to specific applications. These are often based on the linked-data format OntoLex, a de facto standard for representing terminology information as linked-data. Finally, we will describe emerging terminology applications relying on linked-data.

Autoren: Marta Otero und Vivien Krämer Terminology management in a company is more than simply maintaining a multilingual terminology database. It is an extensive task with interfaces to many other departments. It is more than a purely linguistic task, but also comprises visualizing knowledge, creating taxonomies, and providing guidance to user documentation and user interfaces.

Autor: Frieda Steurs Translation environment tools (TEnTs) are relatively common and easy to access nowadays. However, many translators do not necessarily like these tools, as working with them still does not result in optimal search and retrieval of good terms and possible translation alternatives. The SCATE (Smart Computer-Aided Translation Environment) project aims primarily at the improvement of translator efficiency. One of the work packages in this project is designed to provide domain knowledge and easy access to multilingual terminology. We report on the results of this project now that the initial phase has been completed.

Autor: Nicole Keller Acolada bietet seinen Kunden ein sehr umfangreiches Produktportfolio, das ein- und mehrsprachige Lösungen im Bereich Content Management (Sirius), elektronische Wörterbücher (UniLex) und das Terminologiesystem UniTerm umfasst. Dieser Artikel befasst sich ausschließlich mit dem Terminologiesystem UniTerm Pro.

Autor: Gerhard Budin The article reconstructs the contribution of Austrian philosophy in the 19th century to the development of the theory of terminology. Philosophers such as Brentano, Marty, Meinong, Husserl and Carnap developed theories on epistemology and ontology that gave Eugen Wüster in the late 1920s and early 1930s the major impetus and inspirations for the development of his theory of terminology.

Autor: Andreas Oskar Krempf The following article deals with the use of terminologies as documentation language. Using the example of development, maintenance and application of the STW Thesaurus for Economics it illustrates the specific challenges for a standard-based terminology management under changing conditions of reuse and application.

Autor: Christiane Zehrer Project specific terminology (PST) has only recently entered the discussion on professional language use. After a short discussion of the concept PST and its functions, this article illustrates how PST works, and encourages language professionals to adopt new practices that help foster an effective use of PST.

Autoren: Beate Früh und Florian Deubzer For many years terminology management has been praised for its benefits for knowledge management. However, commercial tools used for the administration of terminological data did not support this field of application in a satisfactory way. A new generation of commercial software tools offer now additional features to support the usage of terminologies as a means of knowledge organisation.

Autor: Johannes Widmann From R&D to Marketing or After-Sales: most departments of any company benefit from efficient terminology management. That’s why more and more companies invest in a company-wide terminology team. This article explains how to set it up and offers 10 tips with a focus on critical steps.

Autor: Mark D. Childress The terminology management team in an organization is ultimately responsible for creating an overarching terminology strategy in order to ensure the success of terminology work. The strategy must be coordinated with the strategies of the organization as well as with those of the stakeholders in terminology work. To that end the terminology management team needs to identify the major factors affecting terminology work and account for their influence as part of a well-constructed terminology strategy.

Autorin: Jasmin Nesbigall It's a long way to establish terminology in a company. And it's an even longer one to maintain and expand it, especially when there is more than one language to work on. Terminology in foreign languages is often kept up-to-date by language service providers (LSP) who comment on improper terms and suggest new ones during translation. Thus, companies rely on the input of their LSPs and should establish a joint workflow. This article presents examples of best practices.

Autor: Laurent Romary This paper provides an overview of the various projects carried out within ISO TC 37/SC 4 dealing with the management of language (digital) resources. On the basis of the technical experience gained in the committee and the wider standardization landscape the paper identifies some possible trends for the future.

Autor: Christian Kriele Medical invoices in Switzerland are highly specialised texts and are often very difficult for laypersons to understand. A research project based at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences aims to redesign such texts by creating a version which will be accessible to non-specialists and allow them to check the content more easily. One very important aspect taken into account is the use of specialised terminology.

Autoren: Nicole Keller und Detlef Reineke Das Terminologieverwaltungssystem LookUp des schwäbischen Übersetzungs- und Dokumentationsunternehmens D.O.G. GmbH ist rein webbasiert aufgebaut und richtet sich vor allem an Unternehmen mit mehreren Nutzern und ist somit weniger ein Tool für Einzelnutzer. Der Zugriff auf die Daten erfolgt über einen Webbrowser, erfordert also keine lokale Software-Installation. Somit ist die Nutzung von LookUp unabhängig vom Betriebssystem und ...

Autor: Michael Wetzel Language resources like lexicons, glossaries, dictionaries, and terminologies here; knowledge systems such as taxonomies, classification systems, nomenclatures, thesauri, ontologies, encyclopaedias and wikis there. All capture either language or knowledge to a varying degree. Multilingual Knowledge Systems (MKS) capture both: language and knowledge. Where is the value in such a fusion of – historically – rather separated worlds?

Autorin: Petra Drewer The terminology of a subject field is not merely an arbitrary collection of terms, rather the relevant concepts (represented by terms) constitute coherent concept systems. The most important hierarchical connection between concepts is the generic relation. By compounding terms, logical and comprehensible designations for concepts in generic systems can be provided. This term-formation
method is particularly ideal as it is morphologically transparent.

Autor: Klaus-Dirk Schmitz The definition is a very important knowledge unit for terminology work and terminology management. It allows to describe and explain the concept. But there exist different types of definitions as well as different recommendations for writing definitions. Managing definitions in termbases require a wise and adequate design of the terminological data model.

Autorinnen: Angelika Ottmann und Carmen Canfora Cultural dimensions are widely used in cross-cultural communication, but have not received much attention in terminological theory so far. Languages of a “low-context culture” are very explicit, using a lot more differentiated terms as languages of a “high-context” culture, which are less explicit and use more general terms.

Autorin: Kara Warburton The ISO TC 37 Data Category Registry, also known as ISOcat, is an important electronic resource for researchers and practitioners in various linguistic disciplines. It is currently being migrated to a new hosting environment. The present article explains why, and describes the challenges encountered in the initial migration stage.

Autoren: Nicole Keller und Detlef Reineke Die rein webbasierte Terminologiedatenbank termXplorer der Firma TermTechnologies ist begriffsorientiert angelegt und bietet die Möglichkeit, auf den klassischen drei Hierarchieebenen (Begriff, Sprache, Benennung) benutzerspezifische Eintragsstrukturen mit Benennungsautonomie zu definieren. Außerdem können Sprachen, Nutzergruppen und Zugriffsrechte individuell ...

Autorin: Cindy Tscherwinka In the recent past tools that allow for automatic and comparatively cost efficient creation of terminology lists based on previously translated content have been developed by several providers. As they are widely used, terminological assets are likely to grow in quantity very fast. But does quantity equal quality in terminology?