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Theoretical Perspectives on Terminology: Explaining terms, concepts and specialized knowledge
Edited by Pamela Faber and Marie-Claude L'Homme
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 23] 2022
► pp. 149–174

Chapter 7
Terminology and ontologies

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This chapter revisits the relation between terminologies and ontologies, focusing on those aspects that lie at the intersection of the two worlds. Terminological resources, methods and tools that follow the conceptual paradigm are analyzed to explain how close they are to ontologies. Then, current methodologies in Ontology Engineering are reviewed from a terminological perspective to highlight those aspects of terminological practice that are becoming increasingly relevant in an ontology development process. Finally, current trends and models in Ontology Engineering whose aim is to enrich ontologies with linguistic (terminological) descriptions are examined in the light of their use in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing tools, pointing to a renewed convergence of these two worlds.

Keywords: Ontology Engineering, Concept-based Terminology, terminological knowledge base, termontography, Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, NLP applications, Ontolex-lemon, linked data
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The quest for knowledge representation
    • 2.1Ontologies from the computational perspective
    • 2.2Ontologies as artifacts that interact with machines and humans
    • 2.3Components of a domain ontology
  • 3.Compiling terminologies from a conceptual perspective
    • 3.1The conceptual paradigm applied to term banks
    • 3.2Term banks for translators
    • 3.3From term banks to terminological knowledge bases
    • 3.4Termontological databases: Bringing together Terminology and ontology practice
  • 4.Terminology practices in Ontology Engineering
    • 4.1The role of terminology analysis in knowledge acquisition
    • 4.2Knowledge-aware resources and knowledge patterns for ontology implementation
    • 4.3Converting language resources into ontologies
  • 5.Towards an enrichment of ontologies with terminological knowledge
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
Published online: 14 June 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.23.07mon
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