Purpose: Terminology is the set of technical words or expressions used in specific contexts, which denotes the core concept in a formal discipline and is usually applied in the fields of machine translation, information retrieval, information extraction and text categorization, etc. Bilingual terminology extraction plays an important role in the application of bilingual dictionary compilation, ...

This paper is a Critical examination of the fundamental role thinking plays in human life. The theory presented here is derived from my previously published Critical theory of the phenomenon of mind 1 . An understanding of that theory is propaedeutic for the arguments and deductions presented in the present treatise. A glossary of technical terminology used here is available. 2 By analogy with ...

 Most engineering disciplines, such as computer engineering, are in constant and rapid change. Technology and paradigm shifts take place every few years and every major change brings new vocabulary and terms. Apparently, these changes also affect the engineering education establishments, its educators and its students. The changes do not impose any serious language problems for the educational...

The Termolator is a high-performing terminology extraction system, which will soon be available as open source software. The Termolator combines several different approaches to get superior coverage and accuracy. The system identifies potential instances of terminology using a chunking procedure, similar to noun group chunking, but favoring chunks that contain out-of-vocabulary words, nominaliz...

Clinical and technical information imparted in most African languages involves inexact terminology and code switching, so it lacks the explanatory power characterised by the English language. African languages are absent in the tertiary science education environment and forums where African scientists could present scientific material in the medium of African languages. This limits the developm...

Faced with large and steadily increasing work volumes, the Patent Cooperation Treaty Translation Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, is looking for ways to improve the efficiency of its translation process. A terminology problem has been identified, and attention has turned to automatic bilingual terminology extraction as a possible means of solving that problem. A ...

As archives contain documents that span over a long period of time, the language used to create these documents and the language used for querying the archive can differ. This difference is due to evolution in both terminology and semantics and will cause a significant number of relevant documents being omitted. A static solution is to use query expansion based on explicit knowledge banks such ...

Automatic text analysis systems can lexically recognize a word only if it already exists in the electronic dictionary. The same thing is true for the NOOJ system analysis programs. One understands here by electronic dictionaries the lexical databases where all information is explicit because they are intended for computer programs use. These bases aim at the modelling of the language, which dis...

Process and product measurement is one of the key topics in the Software Engineering field. There already exists a significant number of one-dimensional models of performance, which integrate all individual measurements into a single performance index. However, these types of models are too over-simplified to adequately reflect the multi-dimensional nature of performance. Similarly, one-dimensi...