Unification of multi-lingual scientific terminological resources using the ISO 16642 standard. The TermSciences initiative

The TermSciences initiative aims at building a multi-purpose and multi-lingual knowledge system from different source vocabularies produced by major French research institutions and which were initially intended to be used for indexing and cataloguing scientific literature. Since the construction of language resource repositories is cost-effective and time-consuming, the producers of these vocabularies wished to both share their terminological material and develop common tools for the collaborative management of the integrated resource. Sharing terminologies poses some problems because of the heterogeneous nature of the source data (i.e., coverage, granularity and compositionality of concepts, etc.), and to the discrepancy between partner needs (i.e., simple diffusion of the terminological material, use of the shared material to enhance information engineering tasks, etc.). This paper presents the TermSciences portal1 , which deals with the implementation of a conceptual model that us...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Majid Khayari, Stéphane Schneider, Isabelle Kramer, Laurent Romary
• Keywords: CORR 2006, Education, Major French Research, Terminological Markup Framework, Terminological Material