Contents

 
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• General Introduction to Terminology
  • Terminology
  • Spoken Language Systems
    • Subfields of spoken language systems
    • Importance of spoken language systems
    • Spoken language systems in education
  • Terminology Science -- a closer look
    • The terminologists' concept system
      • Characteristics of concepts
      • The terminologists' additional dimension to the semiotic triangle
      • Relations in a concept hierarchy
    • The Definition of terms in use
    • Applications for and users of terminology
      • Terminology in translation
      • Terminology for decisionmakers
      • Terminology in group specific and independent communication
      • Terminology for language planners
  • Terminology and knowledge
    • Terminology transfer
    • Terminology concepts and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
    • Terminology for teaching language
• Terminology Management Systems
  • Terminology Management Systems -- An application of Database Management Systems
    • Database Management Systems
  • Terminology Management Systems -- design and maintenance
    • Requirements for Terminology Management Systems: The perspective of a user
    • Requirements for Terminology Management Systems: The perspective of an administrator
  • Structure of a Terminology Data Base
    • The Macrostructure
      • Semasiological macrostructure
      • Onomasiological macrostructure
    • The microstructure
      • Monolingual termbanks
        • Semasiological structured termbanks
        • Onomasiological structured termbanks
      • Bilingual and multilingual termbanks
        • Problems in designing a bilingual termbank:
    • The structure of the entries for the data categories
      • Data elements as unique identifiers
        • The problem of homographs
        • Forming unique identifiers: adding information
        • Forming unique identifiers: Enumeration of the nodes of a semantic net
        • Forming unique identifiers: using arbitrary numbers
        • Forming unique identifiers: summary
      • Data category: term
      • Classification of terms
      • Data category: definition
        • Types of definitions
        • Structure of analytic definitions
        • Possible mistakes in creating definitions
      • Related terms
        • Problematic relations
        • Sharing the same superordinate concept: Synonyms
        • Sharing the same superordinate concept: Antonyms and partial synonyms
        • Sharing the same superordinate concept: Polysems and homonyms
        • Superordinate and subordinate concepts
      • Data category: pronunciation
      • Data category: part of speech
      • Data category: examples
      • Data category: context
      • Administrative data categories
        • Author
        • Date
      • Elementarity of entries
      • Granularity
  • Examples of Terminology Management Systems
    • NOT
    • MultiTerm
    • TermStar
    • EAGLET
• Terminology Interchange -- MARTIF
  • Terminology interchange: Facing multiple requirements
  • SGML
    • Document Type Declaration
    • Document instance
  • Database design in SGML
  • What is MARTIF?
    • Further development: Blind MARTIF
  • Usage of MARTIF
  • Transformation of a relational termbase into MARTIF
    • Available tools for format transformation: internal
    • Available tools for format transformation: external
    • Conversion of an existing termbank: EAGLET to MARTIF
• MARTIF DTD
  • MARTIF.DTD (1):
  • MARTIF.DTD (2): Body elements
  • MARTIF.DTD (3): Character Entities
• Sample EAGLET-ASCII file
• Script for the conversion of EAGLET into MARTIF
  • Script for EAGLET-ASCII-file preprocessing
  • Script for the conversion of preprocessed EAGLET-DB into MARTIF
• Extracts of the EAGLET-Termbase in MARTIF format
• References
• Index
• About this document ...

Thorsten Trippel
Fri May 21 13:04:11 MET DST 1999