Understanding terminology in texts
Original version
SYNAPS - A Journal of Professional Communication 21(2008) pp.115-123Abstract
In this article we focus on the process of understanding terms in texts. We explain how a method for
terminological analysis of specialised texts has been set up in order to develop ontologically-underpinned
terminological resources. We will concentrate on the categorisation framework, which is used in
termontography for structuring terminological information. This framework is currently implemented in a
didactic software tool, called CatTerm. Student translators using CatTerm construct a knowledge model of a
given domain while reading a corpus of specialised texts in the target and source languages of the translation
exercise.