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In:Handbook of Terminology: Volume 1
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs
[Handbook of Terminology 1] 2015
► pp. 393–424

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TBX: A terminology exchange format for the translation and localization industry

 | Brigham Young University
Published online: 13 March 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hot.1.tbx1
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Design requirements
    • 2.1Inspectability
    • 2.2Platform independence
    • 2.3Structural compliance with the TMF metamodel
    • 2.4Use of ISOcat
    • 2.5Data elementarity
    • 2.6Term autonomy
    • 2.7Flexibility
    • 2.8Compliance checking
    • 2.9Nearly blind import
    • 2.10Recognition by standards bodies
  • 3.Evaluation of TBX
    • 3.1Inspectability
    • 3.2Platform independence
    • 3.3Structural compliance with the TMF metamodel
    • 3.4Use of ISOcat
    • 3.5Data elementarity
    • 3.6Term autonomy
    • 3.7Flexibility
    • 3.8Compliance checking
    • 3.9Nearly blind import
    • 3.10Recognition by standards bodies
    • 3.11Some objections to TBX
  • 4.Status of TBX
  • 5.Future of TBX
    • 5.1Self-contained TBX files
    • 5.2Abstract model
    • 5.3Agreement on a method of creating persistent identifiers
    • 5.4Development of additional open-source TBX utilities, guides and dialects
    • 5.5Certification of TBX implementations
    • 5.6Examination of the merge process
    • 5.7Connection with authoring and term mining
    • 5.8Access to term bases from handheld devices
    • 5.9Integration between human and machine translation
    • 5.10Use in computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
    • 5.11Coordination with the lexical markup framework (LMF) community
    • 5.12Integration with semantic web applications that use OWL
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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