3.3.1. Introduction — Finding and Compiling Terms

This lesson deals with the identification and compilation of terms.

terminology work is an iterative process. Once you have extracted terms from a document and compiled, analyzed and recorded your research findings, you repeat the process for your other documents. For example, you might scan a book, then a journal, then a magazine article, then a transcript from a television program, even perhaps a conference presentation, repeating the same steps for each source. In comparative terminology, you then repeat the steps in the other language(s).

Objectives

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:

• Do conceptual analysis.
• Scan for terms.
• Create a monolingual base list.
• Organize the results of term extraction into single-concept terminology case files.
• Name some of the main data elements found on terminology records.
• Merge results from two languages together.