Information Categories in a Learner's Glossary Entry

Boyan Alexiev (1)

1 UACEG - University of Architeture, Civil Enneering and Geodesy

Three types of information categories are proposed in a learner‟s glossary entry: conceptual, lexical and pragmatic. The glossary is envisaged as a knowledge-oriented terminological collection which provides quick access to the conceptual structure of a narrow domain, the head terms functioning in it, their definitions, collocations, translations and contextual use. The conceptual information is identified by analyzing the conceptual relations using a classification scheme of the general aspects of the basic concept (top term). The top-down procedure continues with establishing the system-structuring characteristics with possible graphic representation of types. The lexical information refers to terminological collocations identified by a lexico-semantic analysis. The pragmatic information is provided by corpusextracted contexts and translation equivalents specified by a systematicity-based terminological contrastive analysis. A model is proposed for organizing the data obtained in a learner‟s glossary entry. It is concluded that the proposed model allows maximum concentration of terminological knowledge applicable in technical translation.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Boyan Alexiev. Information Categories in a Learner's Glossary Entry. Terminology and Knowledge Engineering 2014, Jun 2014, Berlin, Germany. 10 p. ⟨hal-01005872⟩