The IATE project was launched in early 2000 for the creation of a single central terminology database for all the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the European Union. By mid-2001, it had reached the prototype phase. It is evident that the attempt of uniting the terminology that has been created in different institutions, with different approaches to terminology and different working c...

Brahler CJ, Walker D. Learning scientific and medical terminology with a mnemonic strategy using an illogical association technique. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 219–224, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.00083.2007.—For students pursuing careers in medical fields, knowledge of technical and medical terminology is prerequisite to being able to solve problems in their respective disciplines and professions. The D...

Terminologies are specialized words and compound words used in a particular domain, such as computer science. Since they are very common in scientific articles, the ability to automatic identification of terminology could greatly assist any domain related natural language processing applications. Unfortunately, the collection of terminology information is very difficult and requires much tediou...

In this paper we discuss the issue of ICT terminology and translations of specific technical terms. We also present SPOT – a new on-line dictionary of computer terminology. SPOT’s web platform is adaptable to any language and/or field. We hope that SPOT will become an open platform for discussing controversial computer terms (and their translations into Czech) among professionals. The resulting...

For students pursuing careers in medical fields, knowledge of technical and medical terminology is prerequisite to being able to solve problems in their respective disciplines and professions. The Dean Vaughn Medical Terminology 350 Total Retention System, also known as Medical Terminology 350 (25), is a mnemonic instructional and learning strategy that combines mental imagery and keyword mnemo...

We present a Question Answering system for technical domains which makes an intelligent use of paraphrases to increase the likelihood of finding the answer to the user’s question. The system implements a simple and efficient logic representation of questions and answers that maps paraphrases to the same underlying semantic representation. Further, paraphrases of technical terminology are dealt ...

The article begins by introducing specialized communication as the main domain of technical languages. It presents a brief survey of the development of the general theory Authenticated | [email protected] Download Date | 10/23/15 11:25 PM XIV. Word-formation and language use 2252 of terminology. Next, technical terms and their types, sources and definitions are discussed. Section 5 is dedicat...