Theories of terminology

Castellví, María Teresa Cabré i

doi:10.1075/term.9.2.03cab

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“…Yet, this statement has only recently come to be fully acknowledged and developed within Terminology theories, traditionally more concerned with issues of prescription and standardisation (see Cabré (2003) or Faber (2009) for useful reviews on the topic). Since the 1990s, the field of Terminology has greatly benefited from the interest it has spurred among linguists, shifting the emphasis to the social, communicative and cognitive aspects of terms.…”

Section: The Frame-based Terminology Modelmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Arroyo¹

2015

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Although fashion is a topic of chief relevance in our society, its linguistic characteristics have attracted little attention among researchers. Facing the challenge of combining two different, but arguably complementary, perspectives -the Frame-Based Terminology model and Relevance Theory -, this paper focuses on English and French neologisms in the language of fashion. The data, extracted from top quality Spanish women's fashion magazines, have been examined as signals of specialised language. The analysis shows that the correct interpretation of the terms rests on a specific set of relations and roles, but also on their lexical expansion, which satisfies the expectations of expert readers and general public.

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Section: The Frame-based Terminology Modelmentioning

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2015

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“…the relation between treatment and side effect) are gaining recognition (e.g. Meyer et al 1999;Barrière 2001;Cabré et al 2004;Feliu 2004;Nuopponen 2005;Marshman 2007a;L'Homme 2012;Faber et al 2014).…”

Section: Terminological Relations Relation Markers and Krcsmentioning

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“…Temmerman and Kerremans 2003) describe fields by combining terminology description and ontology structuring. The Genoma project (Cabré et al 2004) also combines resources, offering terminology, an ontology, and documentation within an integrated resource. With multiple points of access, users can choose the format and range of data that best suits their needs.…”

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Enriching terminology resources with knowledge-rich contexts

Marshman¹

2014

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While terminological relations are central in terminology work, they are rarely extensively described in large-scale terminology resources. Knowledge-rich contexts (KRCs) describing relations are commonly used in terminological analysis, but less often displayed to resources' users, who thus lack information useful for understanding and writing in specialized fields. Using some existing resources, including the prototype resource the CREATerminal, we explore the need for terminology resources that highlight KRCs and terminological relations, potential strategies for integrating these items in resources, and initial user reactions to a KRC-enriched resource. We conclude that a smooth interface between basic term record fields and information on terminological relations in the form of KRCs, as well as easy and multi-faceted access and navigation, will help to create useful and user-friendly terminology resources particularly suited to student translators.

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“…In the Metathesaurus, a term is the class of all strings that are lexical variants (made singular and normalized to case) of each other". his definition allows for expressions that are not terms according to certain theories of terminology, in which terms are expressions that are actually used in domain-specific communication [20-22]. In fact, the UMLS abounds of expressions that are not expected to occur in any written or oral communication but are intended to precisely paraphrase the exact meaning of a concept.…”

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Rewriting and suppressing UMLS terms for improved biomedical term identification

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BackgroundIdentification of terms is essential for biomedical text mining.. We concentrate here on the use of vocabularies for term identification, specifically the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). To make the UMLS more suitable for biomedical text mining we implemented and evaluated nine term rewrite and eight term suppression rules. The rules rely on UMLS properties that have been identified in previous work by others, together with an additional set of new properties discovered by our group during our work with the UMLS. Our work complements the earlier work in that we measure the impact on the number of terms identified by the different rules on a MEDLINE corpus. The number of uniquely identified terms and their frequency in MEDLINE were computed before and after applying the rules. The 50 most frequently found terms together with a sample of 100 randomly selected terms were evaluated for every rule.ResultsFive of the nine rewrite rules were found to generate additional synonyms and spelling variants that correctly corresponded to the meaning of the original terms and seven out of the eight suppression rules were found to suppress only undesired terms. Using the five rewrite rules that passed our evaluation, we were able to identify 1,117,772 new occurrences of 14,784 rewritten terms in MEDLINE. Without the rewriting, we recognized 651,268 terms belonging to 397,414 concepts; with rewriting, we recognized 666,053 terms belonging to 410,823 concepts, which is an increase of 2.8% in the number of terms and an increase of 3.4% in the number of concepts recognized. Using the seven suppression rules, a total of 257,118 undesired terms were suppressed in the UMLS, notably decreasing its size. 7,397 terms were suppressed in the corpus.ConclusionsWe recommend applying the five rewrite rules and seven suppression rules that passed our evaluation when the UMLS is to be used for biomedical term identification in MEDLINE. A software tool to apply these rules to the UMLS is freely available at http://biosemantics.org/casper.

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Theories of terminology

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From the atelier to e-commerce

Enriching terminology resources with knowledge-rich contexts

Rewriting and suppressing UMLS terms for improved biomedical term identification

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