Reinhart Herzog (IBM Germany): 
Computational Studies in Terminology 
(Abstract of a Paper to be Presented at the 1969 
International Congress on Computational Linguistics, 
SAnga S~by, Sweden) 
Terminology, as a field of applied linguistics, is gaining 
increasing importance, since in recent years striking new 
developments of technology and the sciences have taken 
place. Terminologists have their own international congresses; 
linguists and standard associations try to build up and 
control the specific vocabularies of all different fields, 
in order to have them compiled and printed in up-to-date 
dictionaries. Industry also shows remarkable interest in 
this work, because those great international companies 
heavily depend on the means of a fixed and standardized 
vocabulary in order to achieve the necessary communication 
(to go along with its products), either by publication or 
by translation. 
For various reasons, the task of documenting and controlling 
the growth and structure of terminological vocabularies 
cannot satisfactorily be accomplished without the application 
of computers. Insight into the structure of terminologies 
has been gained by functional~ computer prepared statistics 
of vocabularies and validations of texts. Linguists, for 
their part, have programmed computers in order to isolate 
relevant lexical items from terminological texts~ as well 
as to determine the various meanings and shades of meaning 
of specific terms~ by means of special procedures. 
Several linguistic methods and procedures~ as originally 
developed for automatic sentence analysis and mechanical 
translation~ can successfully be employed in the field 
of computer assisted research and control of terminologies 
This holds especially true with regard to automated 
compilation procedures, as to be used within the process 
of preparing bilingual and multilingu~l technical dictionaries. 
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