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Training language: English

(Interpreting Services for one Nguni language, one Sotho language, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans and French are available on prior request)

Theme of the Training Sessions:

Training Sessions will concentrate on Basic Level Training Terminology Management in a multilingual global society - Theoretical and practical lessons on terminology management and tools

Major Topics of the Training Sessions:

1. Quality and Validation of Terminological Resources
2. Some considerations on the relationship between the terminologist and the subject field expert in the building of a database
3. Terminological definitions
4. Copyright Issues Affecting Terminology in Electronic Environments
5. Specialist Terms in General Language Dictionaries.
6. Terminology in the Multilingual Multicultural Information Society
7. Creating, Sharing and Reusing Terminological Knowledge for Transcultural Content Management
8. Standardising and Harmonising: Management Strategies
9. User-orientation in dictionaries: Some propositions.
10. Structure and terminology on the web
11. Terminology Management on the Internet
12. Do’s and Don'ts of Terminological Management
13. Cross-references in Terminological Databases
14. Terminology in advanced Microcomputer Applications – Recent Advances and User Reports
15. Quality Control: Terminology Management

Other Topics:

1. Value Analysis of Dictionaries for Special Purposes
2. Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
3. Terminology and Knowledge Data Management
4. A System for Managing Knowledge and Terminology for Technical Documentation
5. International Co-operation in Terminology today and tomorrow
6. Terminology creation and terminography
7. Terminology work - Harmonisation of concepts and terms
8. Terminology Management Systems and Evaluation Criteria
9. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation
10. New Approach to Research into the Concept within Terminology
11. Localisation and Internationalisation. Problems in the Computer Terminology
12. Terminology in new World Wide Web applications
13. Design of a Meta Website for Language Resources
14. Combining Ontologies and Terminologies in Information Systems

Calendar:

Submission:

Summaries of the training session (no more than 500 words) are due by 15th August 2002.

Final session summaries are due by 15th November 2002.

Chairpersons:

• Frieda Steurs
• Klaus-Dirk Schmitz

"NO KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT TERMINOLOGY"