Standardizing Terminology for Better Communication: Practice, Applied Theory, and Results
Editor(s): Richard A. Strehlow, Sue Ellen Wright
Shows how terminology work can be applied to increase communication efficiency, promote understanding, and add value to both documents and databases.
Presents 27 papers from authors in North America, Europe, and Asia and provides an overview of terminology work today.
The role of terminology work in ensuring high quality text production and information retrieval is explored, as well as the inclusion of variant terminology and foreign language equivalents.
The burgeoning significance of computerization and database applications in terminology work as lead several authors to examine the terminological aspects of data elements, hypertext applications in terminology database management, universal interchange formats and computer aids for terminology generation and management.
In four sections:
• Issues in Terminology
• Applying Terminological Principles and Theories
• Computerization and Database Applications
• Terminology for Special Languages and Nomenclatures.
Table of Contents
RA Strehlow, SE Wright
W Grattidge, JH Westbrook
H Gélinas-Surprenant, E Hussman
S Pavel
AK Dzhincharadze, VL Nalepin, IN Volkova
Y Lu
CA Sperati
C Galinski, G Budin
CT Gilreath
RL Buchan
LH Deming
SE Wright
RA Strehlow, WH Kenworthey, RE Schuldt
I Meyer
AW Forrey
JH Westbrook, W Grattidge
KJ Vinciquerra
GM Shreve
SE Wright, AK Melby
W Grattidge, WB Lund, JH Westbrook
C Leonhardt
CG Interrante, CA Messina, AC Fraker
WP Ellis
S Da
FW Billmeyer
CA Sperati
AW Forrey
JC Datta