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management tools, which may address the above-mentioned needs, although in the limitedway. The study will involve theoretical introduction into terminology management as ascientific discipline including a brief historical outline, followed by a suggestedmethodology of evaluation and an exemplary evaluation procedure comparing threeterminology management tools. The author would like to emphasize that all the toolsselected for presentation in the thesis were available for testing for free, and no softwareprovider sponsored this project. The reasoning behind the selection of particular tools isgiven in the fourth chapter of the thesis.In order to demonstrate the features of the tools, terminological databases werecreated in the programs selected. As a corpus for terminology extraction for the termbases,the author used a number of sources (see Appendix I). The selected programs were installedon two computers, both having Windows XP for the operating system. One had 256 MBRAM, the other 128 MB RAM. In both cases Office 2003 was used.6
CHAPTER ITERMINOLOGY – BASIC CONCEPTS1. INTRODUCTIONThis thesis contains four chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of the study ofterminology management tools. This chapter acts as an introduction to terminology andterminology management in general. First the readers will be presented with the definitionsof basic concepts of this discipline. The historical background of terminology managementwill introduce the most important developments in this branch of knowledge. The final partof this chapter will be devoted to illustrating the significance of terminology managementand terminology management tools in translation.2. DEFINITIONSThe notions central to terminology management, and thus to this thesis, are term andconcept. As defined by Trippel “term is the language sign for a concept. This language signdoes not necessarily have to be a single word, but it can also be a set of words - a fixedphrase - used only to denote a specific concept. Terms are not language independent whileconcepts are.”(Trippel 1999).The term terminology has two possible interpretations. The first one says that it is aspecialist vocabulary, used in a particular subject field, also referred to as technical jargon.The other reference of this term is the theory or science dealing with the relations betweenterms and concepts (Trippel 1999). Another definition states that it is ‘a structured set ofconcepts and their designations (graphical symbols, terms, phraseological units, etc.) in aspecific subject field.’ (POINTER 1996). On the whole, it is an interdisciplinary branchwhich involves both theoretical and practical aspects of creation, introduction, interpretation,usage, validation, evaluation, correction and classification of terms. There are a number ofapplications of terminology, among which the most significant are: standardization, researchand development, marketing communications, consumer information, language engineeringapplications, knowledge engineering, computer-aided language learning (CALL), distancelearning, computer-aided instruction (CAI), technical writing, corporate information7
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