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Terminology and e-dictionaries
Edited by Amparo Alcina, Rute Costa and Christophe Roche
[Terminology 25:2] 2019
► pp. 259–290

Knowledge-based terminological e‑dictionaries

The EndoTerm and al-Andalus Pottery projects

| Université Savoie Mont-Blanc
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa

The advent of the Semantic Web and of the Linked Data initiative have contributed to new perspectives and opportunities regarding terminology work. Among them are the double dimension approach and the theoretical perspective of ontoterminology anchored therein, which explore the synergies resulting from the systematic organisation of both term systems and concept systems. By doing so, they provide a theoretical and methodological foundation underlying the creation of knowledge-based terminological products that can support the conception and development of different types of e‑dictionaries. Within that scope, and based on examples pertaining to two different subject fields, namely endometriosis and Islamic archaeology, this article aims to propose a framework for the creation of a terminological e-dictionary, defined as a reference resource in a specific domain that gathers, structures and describes linguistic data in a systematic way in one, two or more languages, in order to define concepts that are denoted by terms.

Keywords: terminological e-dictionary, definition, ontoterminology
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Concept theory and representation
    • 2.1Towards a theory of the concept
    • 2.2Languages of representation
      • 2.2.1Graphical languages
      • 2.2.2Artificial intelligence languages
      • 2.2.3Logic-oriented languages
      • 2.2.4Which representation language?
    • 2.3Software environments
      • 2.3.1CmapTools
      • 2.3.2Protégé
      • 2.3.3Tedi
  • 3.A terminological approach to knowledge organisation within the scope of endometriosis: The EndoTerm project
    • 3.1Introduction to EndoTerm
    • 3.2LESS: A brave new world for surgery?
    • 3.3Knowing a concept by the company it keeps: EndoTerm’s conceptual framework
  • 4.Terminology and pottery artefacts of the al-Andalus
    • 4.1Overview of the domain
    • 4.2OntoAndalus: An ontology of pottery artefacts of al-Andalus
    • 4.3Lemon as a model for linguistic information
  • 5.From formal definitions to natural language definitions
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Online sources
Published online: 26 November 2019
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