Open AccessThe Construction of a Term Database to Support the Compilation of Chinese-Slovene Slovene-Chinese Dictionary of Beekeeping Terms
Author(s) -
Anže Sobočan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta linguistica asiatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2232-3317
DOI - 10.4312/ala.3.3.55-70
Subject(s) - terminology , computer science , term (time) , coining (mint) , selection (genetic algorithm) , focus (optics) , vocabulary , literal translation , field (mathematics) , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , history , mathematics , philosophy , source text , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , optics
This paper introduces the first step of making a multilingual specialized dictionary, which includes a selection of terms, their arrangement according to adequacy and the determination of synonymous relationships between the terms. The research was based of the first phase of compiling a Slovene-Chinese and Chinese-Slovene specialized beekeeping dictionary. The results of the research could, however, be applied to the making of specialized dictionaries for any research field. The focus areas of the paper are: the partial overlapping of everyday language and specialized terminology; the different arrangement approaches of existing dictionaries; the many synonyms that are often wrongly understood to denote different things; the coining of new terms when needed; the traps of literal translation