Creating Terminology Resources

Abstract

This section describes a terminology management methodology for creating multilingual terminologies of emerging multidisciplinary domains for use by translators, developed at the University of Surrey. The term “Terminology management” denotes the modern methods of creating, organising, and exploiting terminology resources, i.e. of compiling text corpora on computer systems together with software programs which can be used with WIMPS (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers), (proprietary) database management systems and information retrieval software systems for the formalised elicitation and elaboration of terminology (a collection of terms) of a specialist domain. We have demonstrated how terminology can be identified, organised and disseminated using corpus-based computer-assisted methods drawing on text analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data base systems within the linguistic framework of Language for Special Purposes (LSP).