TZOS: an Online Terminology Database Aimed at Working on Basque Academic Terminology Collaboratively

Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pages 1353–1359 Marseille, 20-25 June 2022 © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0 1353 TZOS: an Online Terminology Database Aimed at Working on Basque Academic Terminology Collaboratively Izaskun Aldezabal, Jose Mari Arriola, Arantxa Otegi HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technologies - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU {izaskun.aldezabal, josemaria.arriola, arantza.otegi}@ehu.eus Abstract Terminology databases are highly useful for the dissemination of specialized knowledge. In this paper, we present TZOS, an online terminology database to work on Basque academic terminology collaboratively. We show how this resource integrates the Communicative Theory of Terminology, together with the methodological matters, how it is connected with real corpus GARATERM, which terminology issues arise when terms are collected, and future perspectives. The main objectives of this work are to develop basic tools to research academic registers and make the terminology collected by expert users available to the community. Even though TZOS has been designed for an educational context, its flexible structure makes possible to extend it also to the professional area. In this way, we have built IZIBI-TZOS which is a Civil Engineering oriented version of TZOS. These resources are already publicly available, and the ongoing work is towards the interlinking with other lexical resources by applying linking data principles. Keywords: terminology databases, academic and professional terminology, Communicative Theory of Terminology, open linguistic data 1. Introduction Terminology databases are important for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications (Maslias, 2017; Du et al., 2020), for instance, they are usually applied in the fields of machine translation, information retrieval, information extraction and text categorization. In addition to the role they play in the field of NLP applications, terminology databases provide users with effective and reliable access to terminology quickly (Cabré, 1993); therefore, the importance of such resources in the dissemination of specialized knowledge is undeniable. In the same vein, Faneca (2021) states that the practical purpose of terminology is to solve problems arising from the specialized communicative processes. Moreover, there is an urgent need to find a more efficient approach to terminology work as language workers acknowledge that terminology is a backbone of professional communication (Gornostay and Vasiljevs, 2014). In this work, we present TZOS (Online System for Terminology Service)1, which is an online terminology database to work on Basque academic terminology. TZOS is based on the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) (Cabré, 1999; Cabré, 2001) since we agree on conceiving terms and words as activations of different semantic features of a lexical item that take place in different contexts of use, in contrast to the General Theory of Terminology (GTT) of Wüster (1968). Wüster established the principles for systematizing terminology work based on an onomasiological perspective, starting from the systematic ordering of concepts in specialized domains, and thereafter assigning a term in each language for each concept. This approach is based on the idea that the systematic organization of concepts into a specialized domain is universal and language-independent. After all, the goal is …

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