Term Facts: A blog about terminology.
This blog aims to disseminate information about terminology, and clarify processes and workflows. It is intended for anyone without in-depth knowledge of linguistics who is interested in the topic. Please feel free to comment or post your questions.
If you have any terminology-related questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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Broken telephone – Reflections on the sustainability of plain term bases
Read more: Broken telephone – Reflections on the sustainability of plain term basesGenerally speaking, a terminology product should have a set of information per entry and per term that qualifies it as a reliable reference or it may even have mandatory wording. The information includes the source, creation date and author, as well the modification information, a definition, validation and usage status, just to mention a few…
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The role played by definitions in terminology
Read more: The role played by definitions in terminologyEveryone knows, or at least senses, that definitions belong to terminology assets. However, generating relevant and correct definitions is a complex and time-consuming task. It requires in-depth knowledge of the domain coupled with highly skilled linguistic expertise, and that usually implies turning to experts for support, validation and feedback. Is it worth it? Let’s take…
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Glossary, term base, vocabulary…?
Read more: Glossary, term base, vocabulary…?There are many words that describe different types of lexical or terminology assets and they often seem to be exchangeable, somehow flexible in their meaning and uses. However, this makes it difficult to have a shared understanding about terminology products and therefore it is no easy task to define their scopes and characteristics. Such classifications…
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What is a term?
Read more: What is a term?When populating a terminology asset like a termbase or a glossary, i.e. selecting final terms from a list of automatically extracted term candidates or selecting term suggestions directly from a work environment, a question often arises: what exactly is a term? If a selection made by two or three different people is compared, the differences…
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The Ruler Rules
Read more: The Ruler RulesStandardisation has been a key factor of industrialisation since the XIX century. The beginning of this development is illustrated by the metre replacing other traditional units of measure. The standardisation of specific languages, such as technical or scientific languages, has been the necessary companion of this development, although on occasions more explicitly than at other…
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