Terminology Management Research Articles

NOMINATIVE ASPECT OF VARIATION IN TERMINOLOGY

Main types of variation in terminology, which arise from formal, semantic and functional invariants, are distinguished in the article. The notion of onomasyological invariant is determined, on the base of which the nominal variants and nominatively- variant terminological paradigms in the Spanish water management terminology are defined. The interconnection between different types of terminological variation, their role in nominative variants enriching and nominative variants paradigm forming are analyzed.

Community Interpreting–oriented Terminology Management Tools.

<p>Unlike translators, who have a great variety of computer-assisted tools for terminology management, interpreters have not benefited from the same level of innovation. In fact, the task of community interpreter is to allow people who do not speak the official language(s) of the country to communicate<br />with the providers of public services so as to facilitate full and equal access to legal, health, education, government and social services. Thus, having taken into account the special needs of community interpreters, in this paper we establish a set of parameters from the conclusions drawn from the literature review to assess to what extent terminology management tools meet these needs. Then, a selection of terminology management tools are analysed. From the results, conclusions are drawn which might suggest a need to take into account new proposals in order to implement terminology management in computer-assisted tools from the view of community interpreting as well<br />as to inform new searching procedures used by trainees and community interpreters.</p>

Translation and ICT Competence in the Globalized World

In the 21st century, ICT competence plays a major role in knowledge generation, information retrieval, extraction and processing. Under constantly increasing and changing requirements imposed by ongoing technological progress, translators should become even more proficient in the use of computer-assisted translation tools that address such issues as quality assurance and control, terminology management, pre-editing, post-editing, etc. ICT competence is also closely related to the development of such skills as creativity, logical reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving, decision making, networking, etc. The present paper aims to identify the main advantages of ICT competence in translator training.

English

Scientific and technical terminology represents a very topical issue in economically and technologically dependent countries with small languages such as Serbian. The current terminological problems in the Serbian language, especially in specialized areas that are experiencing dynamic development, are: Anglicization of the language for special purposes, underdeveloped and unstable terminology, and lack of adequate and modern terminological and lexical resources. On the one hand, the terminological problems listed above are of concern to subject-field specialists, since inadequate and non-existent terminology significantly affects the representation, transfer and management of specialized knowledge and information. On the other hand, terminology and language planners point to the growing need for immediate and systematic intervention aimed at terminology harmonization, consolidation and standardization. In spite of the awareness, there is no systematic approach to the solving of terminological problems in Serbian. In addition, practical activities regarding the collection and organization of terminology are few and reduced to individual initiatives. Under the paradigm of language planning (LP)-oriented terminology management (2), this paper is going to address a practical activity of terminology management: the creation of a Serbian management terminology database (TDB) with equivalent terms in English. The paper will discuss the methodology of terminology work, potential obstacles in termbase creation, as well as potential benefits that such a resource would have on all its potential users: management specialists and practitioners, professional translators, and language and terminology planners. A particular focus will be placed on the potential significance that this kind of a database would have for terminology policy and planning in the Serbian language, on the one hand, and knowledge transfer and management, on the other hand.

Making the climate change issue “real” for managers

Purpose Although businesses face various types of risks because of climate change, the level of concern among managers seem to lag behind the institutional pressure to deal with the climate change issue. This paper aims to bridge this gap in perceptions by presenting a framework to assist business leaders in translating the climate change issue into a format that managers can appreciate. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from the supply chain literature, this paper presents a model that shows how climate change-related policy and resource risks affect a firm’s supply, operations and demand domains and the risk management approaches appropriate for each type of risk. Excerpts from 10-K annual reports filed by US automotive and food retailers are used to show how the model works. Findings Although majority of companies examined do not report climate change-related risks, the evidence from those that do affirm the framework’s ability to translate these risks into manager-friendly supply chain terminology. Originality/value Managers can participate in sustainability actions by focusing on the risks and effects of climate change. Business leaders, researchers and policymakers can adopt supply chain risk management terminology to connect with otherwise indifferent managers.

Terminology Management Teaching in Mainland China

Terminology Management Teaching in Mainland China

Le poste de travail pour traducteur de l’an 2015 – l’exemple de l’environnement traductionnel de la Direction générale de traduction de la Commission européenne

The aim of this article is to provide an answer to the question about the current state of advancement of computer-assisted translation tools. We assume that several decades of research in the field carried out by the EU institutions in the context of the European integration process have provided the most advanced computer-assisted translation tools available in the biggest translation service in the world, i.e., the Directorate General for Translation of the European Commission. The present work therefore focuses on the following three main types of CAT tools employed by the EU translators: translation memory tools, terminology management tools and machine translation tools. The same types of tools, offered by the EU providers, i.e. SDL and SYSTRAN, are also used by translators working outside the EU structures. We can therefore presume that the EU translation services set work standards which are then accepted by all professional translators. For that reason, in order to define the most probable directions of future development of these tools, this article also reports the current research conducted by the EU in the CAT tools field.

Using keywords to construct wuzzle-picture-puzzles for the purpose of mastering management and organisational behaviour terminology

ABSTRACTA pedagogical exercise for the purpose of mastering terms associated with management and organisational behaviour terminology was tested in four sections of an undergraduate, Introduction to Business Administration and Organizational Behaviour course at a regional university. The example required students to draw from terminology across the liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Four sections of the class were examined. Two sections were exposed to a treatment effect and were designated as ‘experimental groups’. Two sections were not exposed to this treatment effect and were designated as ‘control groups’. It was hypothesised that the students in the experimental sections who were exposed to the wuzzle-picture-puzzle treatment effect would outscore the students in the control sections who were not. A one-way t-test showed that the experimental groups significantly outscored the control groups. Limitations are noted and suggestions for future research are given.

Terminology and Statistics of Waste Management

This paper considers the relationship between the essence of the regulatory concepts of waste management and statistical information on waste. It is shown, that ambiguity interpretation can influence accounting system of the waste management.

Healthcare Terminology Management and Integration in Italy: Where we are and What we need for Semantic Interoperability

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the adoption and use of medical terminologies and coding systems in Italy, focusing on their management and integration for guaranteeing semantic interoperabil- ity among Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Semantic interoperability guarantees meaningful exchange of data between two or more healthcare information systems, en- suring that data content is not only understandable within its original context, but also in the destination one, and is capable of supporting health service management, clinical decision-making care collaboration, as well as public health reporting, and improving clinical research. Methods: The approach used for the coding systems man- agement and integration in the Italian Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico (FSE)a use case is presented according to the current Italian regulations on federated EHRs. Results: Results show the need to promote an advanced approach, in conformance to the literature best cases, which takes care about a better integration and mainte- nance of medical terminologies and coding systems through the use of standardized models of terminology services. Conclusion: The paper presents terminology interoper- ability issues arisen from the described approach and re- lated requirements to propose a solution that could allow, through sophisticated terminology services framework, to achieve also in Italy semantic interoperability.

Do translation standards encourage effective terminology management?

This article explores the guidance three recently published international translation standards provide in the area of translation-oriented terminology management. The author identifies perceived gaps in these standards and offers suggestions for bridging them.

Macrostructural properties and access structures of LSP e-dictionaries for translation: the technical domain / Makrostrukturelle Eigenschaften und Zugriffsstrukturen der Online- Fachwörterbücher für Übersetzung im technischen Bereich / Caractéristiques macrostructurelles et structures d‘accès des dictionnaires spécialisés en ligne pour la traduction en domaine technique

Abstract This contribution enlarges upon the topic of macrostructures and access structures in LSP e-lexicography, paying special attention to the technical domain and translation-oriented usage. Whereas dictionary microstructures and mediostructures have so far been at the centre of research concerning LSP, macrostructures have been taken into consideration only incidentally and not in a systematic way. This paper proposes an evaluation framework for macrostructures of e-lexicographic tools on the grounds of different, combinable criteria, and applies this framework to a set of online and offline available resources. Against this background, the paper argues in favour of more in-depth studies on the role of macrostructures and access structures in the development of new methods for terminology management and description, especially under consideration of the quantitative predominance of the technical domain.

The study of personel management processes of enterprises engaged in resort and recreational areas: terminological clarification

The article summarizes the achievements of scientists and analyzes scientific knowledge on recreational terminology, scientific and methodological and regulatory approaches to the interpretation of the economic nature of different types of resort and recreational businesses, as well as labor processes occurring in them. The problems of the terminology of human resource management and personnel management of enterprises engaged in recreational and resort areas are investigated. The author offers methodological tools regarding the personnel management of enterprises engaged in resort and recreational areas.

Uncaptured Billable Services

INTRODUCTION: The emergency department (ED) often consults plastic surgery (PS) for assistance treating patients with complex trauma; and often these patients require procedures in the ED. In academic institutions, many of these procedures are performed by senior PS residents without direct oversight from an attending. The purpose of this study was to quantify these services at a Level 1 trauma center. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a review of all ED consults between January and September 2014 to the PS service at our Level 1 Trauma Center. Medical reports were coded using standard AMA Common Procedural Terminology (CPT) and Evaluation & Management (E&M) codes. These codes were converted to work relative value units (wRVUs) and billable charges were summated using the 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. RESULTS: Of 1796 patient encounters identified, 81.2% (n = 1463) were completed by a PS resident. The remainder were either not seen in person (e.g., telephone encounter) or seen with PRS attending; these were not included in this analysis. All encounters were indirectly supervised as defined by the ACGME and PS Residency Review Committees. The E&M codes from these encounters generated 5,231.3 wRVUs. 40.3% of the encounters had at least one procedure, generating 3,622.4 wRVUs from 1445 CPTs. The total billable charges from these claim submissions totaled $317,382.10. CONCLUSION: What was originally thought to be an insignificant loss of revenue, this data clearly demonstrates that a PS consultation service could provide revenue generation through documentation of direct attending oversight. Extrapolated to a calendar year, greater than 11,000 wRVUs could be generated from ED consults alone, which is nearly double the national average for productivity of a full-time academic plastic surgeon (MGMA Academic Practice Compensation, 2015). These results may support more aggressive tactic for capturing revenue sources in the ED.

DEXTER: Automatic Extraction of Domain-Specific Glossaries for Language Teaching

Many researchers emphasize the importance of corpora in the design of Language-for-Specific-Purposes courses in higher education. However, identifying those lexical units which belong to a given specific domain is often a complex task for language teachers, where simple introspection or concordance analysis does not really become effective. The goal of this paper is to describe DEXTER, an open-access platform for data mining and terminology management, whose aim is not only the search, retrieval, exploration and analysis of texts in domain-specific corpora but also the automatic extraction of specialized words from the domain.

Terminology Management: Applications in Teaching ESP to Public Relations Students

Generally speaking, terminology management refers to a range of activities involved in designing, collecting, documenting and processing data to create a terminology resource. Given that terminology is essential to professional communication and practice in any field of expertise, the present paper argues in favour of integrating fundamental principles of terminology management into ESP teaching. In particular, the aim of the paper is twofold: to share the authors’ experience with such an interdisciplinary approach to teaching ESP to second-year students in Communication and Public Relations at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Politehnica University of Timişoara, Romania, and to pinpoint the ways in which practical terminology work, carried out by our students among other more traditional ESP specific activities, greatly benefits future Public Relations (PR) specialists.

Corpógrafo, Terminologie, Phraséologie

The Corpógrafo results from interdisciplinary collaboration between linguists andcomputer engineers under Belinda Maia’s direction. This user-friendly tool for building and using tailor-made corpora allows not only for terminology extractionand management, but also for any research based on monolingual, comparable or parallel corpora. This paper presents the Corpógrafo’s evolution from the first to the fourth version, and two experiences of its use in three languages (English, French and Portuguese). The first experience is in the field of Bluetooth technology terminology extraction and management. The second deals with four Portuguese structures containing the universal quantifier 'cada' and expressing progression, «dropper», proportion between two sets of events or entities and proportion between a set and a subset of events or entities. These experiences show the strengths, weaknesses and limits of the Corpógrafo.

AAHPM Leadership Forum: Ignite—Financial Decision-Making Approaches for Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Leaders (P03)

•Explore financial management terminology to increase understanding and application of financial data.•Apply introductory accounting and finance principles to translate financial reports/statements and optimize available resources.•Identify basic approaches to fiscal forecasts and their potential for informing fiscal decisions. Ignite your leadership potential. Financial Decision-Making Approaches is designed to equip hospice and palliative medicine physicians with foundational principles in financial management to increase their understanding of institutional or organizational financial reports. This course will provide an introduction to financial concepts and terminology followed by an exploration of cost analysis and resource allocation using sample financial tools and documents, case studies, and scenarios to provide practical relevance for HPM physicians. This preconference program is offered in partnership with the American Association for Physician Leadership (Association) and presented by Association faculty. This session applies to all physician leaders and practice settings looking to enhance their financial management understanding and decision-making for their organization. Primary leadership competencies addressed in this program include financial acumen and resource management. AAHPM Ignite is one of three sessions included in the AAHPM Leadership Forum. AAHPM and the American Association for Physician Leadership have designed a comprehensive leadership training program that offers a variety of learning opportunities and varied environments, including face-to-face didactic instruction and Web-based self-study. You can create your own customized and flexible learning pathway and select content based on your unique leadership development goals and career pathway. Learn more at aahpm.org/career/leadership.

Chinese IT terminology management in Hong Kong

AbstractThis article discusses IT terms and terminology management in Hong Kong from the perspective of Language Management Theory (Jernudd and Neustupný 1987, 1991; Jernudd and Nekvapil 2012; Nekvapil 2012). The noting, evaluating, adjusting and implementing of IT terms are examined in the context of lexical innovation (through translation) in the contact situation that Hong Kong represents. It describes the management of Chinese IT terms by agencies in Hong Kong and also discusses the efficacy of standardization of terminology as an agency goal in view of the potential of noting inadequacies of terminology in actual discourse.

Best practices in applying medical device risk management terminology.

ANSI/AAMI/ISO 14971:2007 defines harm as “physical injury or damage to the health of people, or damage to property or the environment,” hazard as “potential source of harm,” and hazardous situation as a “circumstance in which people, property, or the environment are exposed to one or more hazard(s).”1 These definitions are distinct in wording. However, when used in real-world situations, confusion frequently occurs in the application of these terms. For example, one organization’s use of hazard might be interpreted as a harm, hazardous situation, failure mode, or cause by another organization. Even within the same organization, these terms sometimes are used interchangeably without distinction. Inconsistent use of these terms might not be considered a critical issue, as long as their use results in identification of all elements of risk and adequate risk control measures. However, this issue becomes critical in today’s international regulatory environment and complex healthcare system, in which more stakeholders are involved in risk management, more devices are interconnected, and the results of one risk analysis may become input to another risk analysis. This article illustrates best practices in the use of these terms and associated benefits to stakeholders, such as risk management engineers, independent reviewers (e.g., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA]), healthcare institutions (and their information technology and biomedical staff), and ultimately patients. Understanding Risk Management Terminology Although the terms in ANSI/AAMI/ISO 14971:2007 may seem simple in concept, applying them effectively in practice can be difficult. To address this issue, these terms have been mapped into a framework of risk analysis taxonomy (Figure 1). The goal is to illustrate these terms and interrelations in a logical fashion so that risk management engineers, independent reviewers, and device system integrators (e.g., hospitals) can comprehend and apply them effectively. As a result, our explanations can be summarized as follows.