Term Banks for Tomorrow’s World

Translating and the Computer 4

11-12 November 1982

Barbara Snell editor

[Papers reproduced with permission of Aslib]

Contents

INTRODUCTION

BARBARA SNELL

SESSION 1: STANDARDS--WHO NEEDS THEM?

Chairman's introduction

BRIAN D. RODEN

Words in the air

JOHN DANCER

Computerized terminology in TermNet: the role of terminological data banks

HELMUT FELBER

SESSION 2: TERMINOLOGY COMPILATION IN PRACTICE

Chairman's introduction

MICHAEL B. WOOD

The preparation and publication of glossaries by the International Electrotechnical Committee

COLONEL J. READING

Welding terminology in 18 languages

P.D. BOYD

Innovation and neologism in modern Hebrew

YIG'AL YANNAI

Summary of discussion (Sessions 1 & 2)

Pamela Mayorcas-Cohen

SESSION 3: TRANSLATOR OR TERMINOLOGIST?

Chairman's introduction

HILDEGUND BÜHLER

Training terminologists for term banks

HERIBERT PICHT

Terminologists and their setting: the CEC experience

JACQUES GOETSCHALCKX

Terminology for translators

NIGEL REEVES

SESSION 4: LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY

Chairman's introduction

JOHN SINCLAIR

Terminology banks and dictionaries in Japan and their computer processing

HIROSATO NOMURA

New terms in a developing language: the Malaysian experience

ABDUL MAJID BIN ABDUL LATIFF

Towards the creation of a unified scientific terminology in Arabic

PETER G. EMERY

A review of terminological work being done in Indian languages

JAYANTA RAY

Summary of discussion

John Craddock

SESSION 5: CREATING TERM BANKS

Chairman's remarks

VERONICA LAWSON

Software for term banks

A. E. NEGUS

Setting up a term bank using minicomputers

JOHN ALVEY

Summary of discussion

Pamela Mayorcas-Cohen

SESSION 6: DICTIONARY OR DATA BASE?

Chairman's introduction

J. C. SAGER

Online or hard copy?

MARION M. STRACHAN

Text processing in dictionary compilation

K. MOORE

The BSI ROOT Thesaurus: does it serve translators?

S. G. DEXTRE

Terminology in scientific and technical Japanese: problems and prospects

IAN T. M. GOW

Summary of discussion

Valerie Gilbert

SESSION 7: TERMINOLOGY ON THE MARKET

Chairman's remarks

JOHN CRADDOCK

Terminology to suit your pocket

CAROLINE DE SCHAETZEN

A glossary in print: the problems and rewards of producing your own glossary for sale

CHRISTOPHER T.PERCIVAL

Summary of discussion

Wendy Glover

SESSION 8: TERM BANKS TODAY AND TOMORROW

Chairman's introduction

PAUL BAXTER

Aspects of term bank operation

KJELL ÅSTRÖM

Stages in the life cycle of LEXIS

ERIKA HOFFMAN

Summary of discussion

Valerie Gilbert

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Papers presented at the Conference but not included in the present volume:

Ice terminology

TERENCE ARMSTRONG (Session2)
Hardware for data banks
JOHN BROOK (Session 5)

Selling a full text retrieval system

KYLE BOSWORTH (Session 7)