The Corporate Terminologist.

Intro -- The Corporate Terminologist -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Glossary -- Typographical conventions -- Preface -- Part 1. Foundations of terminology -- Chapter 1. What is terminology management? -- Terminology and terminography -- Terminology management -- Chapter 2. Theories and methods -- Theories -- Onomasiology and semasiology -- Thematic versus ad-hoc terminography -- Prescriptive and descriptive terminography -- Reflections on theory and practice -- Chapter 3. Principles -- Univocity -- Concept orientation -- Term autonomy -- Data granularity, elementarity and integrity -- Repurposability -- Interchange -- Data categories -- Part 2. Commercial terminography -- Chapter 4. Definition, motivation, challenges -- The commercial environment -- Does commercial content contain terminology? -- Motivation for managing terminology -- The historical confines to translation -- The terminologist as a working professional -- The advent of XML -- Lack of suitable models -- The value of corpora -- Terminology problems and challenges -- Relevant literature -- Chapter 5. Terms in commercial content -- Terms considered by word class -- Terms considered by length -- Proper nouns -- Variants -- Chapter 6. Applications -- Where can terminology be used? -- Content management -- Translation -- Authoring -- Search -- -- Query expansion -- Query correction -- Autocomplete -- Faceted search -- Intranet search -- Search keywords -- Extended applications -- Chapter 7. Towards a theoretical framework -- Statement of the problem -- Termhood and unithood -- Microcontent -- Elements of a new theory and methodology -- Part 3. Planning a corporate terminology initiative -- Chapter 8. The proposal -- Organizational position -- Standards and best practices -- Users and their roles.

Stakeholder engagement -- The authoring community -- Business case -- Costs -- Benefits -- Avoided costs versus saved costs -- Measurable benefits versus non-measurable benefits -- Examples of benefits -- Validating the benefits -- Implementation plan -- Approval -- Chapter 9. The process -- Access mechanisms and user interfaces -- Stages and workflows -- The terminology audit -- Inclusion criteria -- Chapter 10. Data category selection -- Computer-assisted translation -- Controlled authoring -- Concept relations -- Search -- Subsetting -- Data category proposal -- Chapter 11. The terminology management system -- Standalone or integrated -- Core features -- Languages and scripts -- Term entry -- Import and export -- Views -- Search -- Access controls -- Relations -- Workflows, community input -- Administrative functions -- Part 4. Implementing and operating the termbase -- Chapter 12. Create the termbase -- The data model -- Controlling access -- Views and filters -- Workflows -- Chapter 13. Launch the termbase -- Initial population -- Beta test -- Launch -- Documentation and training -- Community outreach -- Chapter 14. Expand the termbase -- Term extraction -- Why would we want to extract terms? -- Term extraction tools -- Cleaning the term candidates -- Concordancing -- Target language terms -- New concepts -- Chapter 15. Maintain quality -- The termbase-corpus gap -- Unoptimized terms -- Undocumented terms -- Field content -- Backups -- Leveraging opportunities -- Conclusion and future prospects -- Further reading and resources -- -- General principles -- Terminology in commercial environments -- Terminology management systems -- Termbases -- Data categories -- Controlled authoring -- Search engine optimization -- Term extraction -- Term variants -- Workflows and project management -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Corporate Terminologist is the first monograph that addresses the principles and methods for managing terminology in content production environments that are both demanding and multilingual, such as those found in global companies and institutions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.