术语本体编纂学:本体建造和术语描述的社会认知方法

自20世纪90年代末至今,术语学理论和实践可谓经历了3次大的转变:(1)术语学实践工作转向计算机化的术语管理活动;(2)术语学理论向语言学靠近;(3)术语学实践和理论又在实现着“本体”转化。在参与欧盟“欧洲增值税立法术语库”的建造过程中,比利时女学者泰默尔曼和她的团队摸索出“术语本体编纂学”的工作方法。这种术语管理方法为解决多语言多文化的术语管理带来了便利。文章对这一方法做一简单介绍,以飨读者。

Terminological Standardization in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Since the 1990s’ there were three shifts which have affected the discipline of terminology: the shift towards computational terminology management; the linguistic shift in the theory of terminology, and more recently the ontology shift. During the collaboration with ontology engineers within the framework of the European project FF POIROT, professor Rita Temmerman and her team introduce the method of termontography. Through the practice it proved that it can provide some benefits for the nowadays multilingual and multicultural terminological management. This article introduces this terminological methodology in order to give some new inspirations for readers in the terminology field of China.