Term Banks for Tomorrow’s World

Translating and the Computer 4

11-12 November 1982

Barbara Snell editor

[Papers reproduced with permission of Aslib]

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION

BARBARA SNELL                                                                                  

SESSION 1: STANDARDS--WHO NEEDS THEM?

Chairman's introduction                                                                                                                            

BRIAN D. RODEN

Words in the air                                                                                                                                           

JOHN DANCER

Computerized terminology in TermNet: the role of terminological data banks                                

HELMUT FELBER

SESSION 2: TERMINOLOGY COMPILATION IN PRACTICE                                                            

Chairman's introduction                                                                                                                                        

MICHAEL B. WOOD

The preparation and publication of glossaries by the International Electrotechnical Committee           

COLONEL J. READING

Welding terminology in 18 languages                                                                                                                

P.D. BOYD

Innovation and neologism in modern Hebrew                                                                                                  

YIG'AL  YANNAI

Summary of discussion (Sessions 1 & 2)                                                                                                                

Pamela Mayorcas-Cohen

SESSION 3: TRANSLATOR OR TERMINOLOGIST?                                                                                   

Chairman's introduction                                                                                                                                        

HILDEGUND BÜHLER

Training terminologists for term banks                                                                                                    

HERIBERT PICHT

Terminologists and their setting: the CEC experience                                                                        

JACQUES GOETSCHALCKX

Terminology for translators                                                                                                                       

NIGEL REEVES

SESSION 4: LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY                                                                              

Chairman's introduction                                                                                                                            

JOHN SINCLAIR

Terminology banks and dictionaries in Japan and their computer processing                     

HIROSATO NOMURA                                                                                                                                                   


New terms in a developing language: the Malaysian experience                                                    

ABDUL MAJID BIN ABDUL LATIFF

Towards the creation of a unified scientific terminology in Arabic                                                    

PETER G. EMERY

A review of terminological work being done in Indian languages                                                    

JAYANTA RAY

Summary of discussion                                                                                                                             

John Craddock

SESSION 5: CREATING TERM BANKS                                                                                              

Chairman's remarks                                                                                                                                   

VERONICA LAWSON

Software for term banks                                                                                                                            

A. E. NEGUS

Setting up a term bank using minicomputers                                                                                       

JOHN ALVEY

Summary of discussion                                                                                                                             

Pamela Mayorcas-Cohen

SESSION 6: DICTIONARY OR DATA BASE?                                                                                    

Chairman's introduction                                                                                                                           

J. C. SAGER

Online or hard copy?                                                                                                                                 

MARION M. STRACHAN

Text processing in dictionary compilation                                                                                              

K. MOORE

The BSI ROOT Thesaurus: does it serve translators?                                                                         

S. G. DEXTRE

Terminology in scientific and technical Japanese: problems and prospects                                  

IAN T. M. GOW

Summary of discussion                                                                                                                             

Valerie Gilbert

SESSION 7: TERMINOLOGY ON THE MARKET                                                                              

Chairman's remarks                                                                                                                                   

JOHN CRADDOCK

Terminology to suit your pocket                                                                                                               

CAROLINE DE SCHAETZEN

A glossary in print: the problems and rewards of producing your own glossary for sale               

CHRISTOPHER T.PERCIVAL


Summary of discussion                                                                                                                             

Wendy Glover

SESSION 8: TERM BANKS TODAY AND TOMORROW                                                                  

Chairman's introduction                                                                                                                            

PAUL BAXTER

Aspects of term bank operation                                                                                                                

KJELL ÅSTRÖM

Stages in the life cycle of LEXIS                                                                                                              

ERIKA HOFFMAN

Summary of discussion                                                                                                                             

Valerie Gilbert

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES                                                                                                                               

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS                                                                                                                               

Papers presented at the Conference but not included in the present volume:

 

Ice terminology

TERENCE ARMSTRONG (Session2)
Hardware for data banks
JOHN
BROOK (Session 5)

Selling a full text retrieval system

KYLE BOSWORTH (Session 7)