Edited by Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Anne Condamines and Teresa Cabré
A common framework under which the various studies on terminology processing can be viewed is to consider not only the texts from which the terminological resources are built but particularly the applications targeted. The current book, first published as a Special Issue of Terminology 11:1 (2005),… read more
This chapter describes a part of the history of terminology, through the narrative of the emergence of two schools of thought in France: Socioterminology and Textual terminology. The authors of this chapter make no claim to represent French terminology per se. They seek to reflect on how… read more
This chapter deals with Textual Terminology, an approach that emerged in the early 1990s along with other approaches presented in this book. One of its main characteristics is that it arose from an encounter between related disciplines that focused on the use of text mining (Natural Language… read more
This article looks at so-called “deviant” functioning in terminology. The notion of deviancy seems to be situated in relation to a “neutral” functioning of the language, which does not take any particular communication situation into account. The article aims to show that this supposed deviancy… read more
Using the example of the alternation [to fish (det) river(s)]/[to fish prep (det) river(s)/], this paper adopts a corpus linguistics approach in order to show how it can contribute to studies in cognitive semantics, combining statistics with a more qualitative analysis. The main aim is to… read more
The emotional dimension is generally considered to be unimportant in terminology. Real usage, however, shows that this may be erroneous. Some specialized domains, such as sport or hobbies, are concerned by emotion, and the way terminology functions may be affected by it. This chapter is based on… read more
The study of variation in terminology came to the fore over the last fifteen years in connection with advances in textual terminology. This new approach to terminology could be a way of improving the management of risk related to language use in the workplace and to contribute to the definition of… read more
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the notion of “conceptual relation pattern” via corpus analysis experiments. On the basis of this bottom-up approach, three major points are discussed. First the degree of dependency between conceptual relation patterns and corpus is examined. This… read more
The aim of this paper is to provide an effective method for constructing a Corpus Based Terminological Knowledge Base — CTKB. The two stages of the method based on linguistic knowledge are outlined: the identification of candidate-terms and the identification of conceptual relationships. This… read more
Terminology is reaching an important moment in its development. Within firms, new terminological needs are appearing which go beyond those of traditional translation departments. Thanks to the results of natural-language processing (NLP) and knowledge acquisition and representation in artificial… read more
