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Terminological Relationships and Corpus-Based Methods for Discovering Them: An Assessment for Terminographers

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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Recent work in terminology shows an increasing interest in a largevariety of relationships between terms (qualified by authors as semantic,terminological, or conceptual). Hyperonymy and meronymy remain central in most terminological descriptions, but other non-hierarchicaland lexical relationships are being considered by terminographers and other specialists using specialized corpora.

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Marie-Claude L’Homme

Marie-Claude L’Homme obtained a PhD in linguistics from Laval University in 1992, and after working for almost two years in the private sector as a terminologist-documentalist she joined the Université de Montréal, where she has been a faculty member since 1994. She is in charge of courses on terminology and computer tools for translators. She is also a member of the research group Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST), and her research focuses o corpus-based terminology and terminological descriptions based on lexical semantics. She is responsible for the development of a French dictionary of computing, the DiCoInfo. She has published papers in Terminology, International Journal of Lexicography, Cahiers de lexicologie, and International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and has authored Initiation à la traductique and La terminologie: Principes et techniques. In 2001, she was appointed co-editor of the journal Terminology.

Elizabeth Marshman obtained an MA in translation from the University of Ottawa in 2002, working under the supervision of Ingrid Meyer on discovering knowledge patterns for extracting cause-effect relations from corpora in the field of biopharmaceuticals. She is currently pursuing her doctorate and working at the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST) at the Université de Montréal. Her thesis focuses on a comparison of the possibilities and difficulties of using knowledge patterns to identify non-hierarchical semantic relations in French and English. She has presented her research at conferences and published in the journal Terminology.