Training session: 1-2 June 2021
http://toth.condillac.org/training-2021

Ontology, in the sense of Knowledge Engineering, is one of the most promising perspectives for Terminology today. By proposing an extralinguistic representation of the conceptual system that makes up any terminology, ontology not only allows the operationalization of terminologies for information processing purposes (specialized translation, semantic and multilingual search engines, knowledge management, etc.) but also renews the discipline of Terminology in its foundations, principles and methods, hence offering new possibilities.

This training session will begin by recalling the foundations of Terminology as a scientific discipline, emphasizing its dual linguistic and conceptual dimension. The different theories of the concept that underlie Terminology will also be introduced. Emphasis will be placed on ontology defined as a formal representation of a conceptualization. The multiple benefits of this approach will be detailed; most prominently:

i. permitting to take into account and reconcile specialized language and specialized knowledge, without rejecting one for the benefit of the other,

ii. allowing to standardize what can be standardized, namely domain knowledge, and to preserve what must be preserved, namely linguistic diversity.

Participants will have hands-on practice through concrete examples on how to model, define (represent), and name the concepts of a domain. Participants are asked to bring their laptop.

Objectives of the training: Participants will acquire the theoretical and practical skills necessary to build the formal conceptual system of terminology. Protégé will be used for building ontologies opening Terminology to the Semantic Web.
 
Target audience: Linguists, Terminologists, Translators, Archivists, Computer scientists, Knowledge engineers?

Training Fees: Student: 50 ?, Academic: 75 ?, Other/Industrial : 125 ?

Online registration: http://toth.condillac.org/registration

TOTh web site: http://toth.condillac.org/