An Ontology for Identifying Terms and Equivalents in the Domain of the Balance of Payments
An Ontology for Identifying Terms and Equivalents in the Domain of the Balance of Payments

Summary/Abstract: Terms are at the centre of terminology work as defined in ISO 1087-2019: identifying them in texts and finding equivalents for them in different languages is pivotal. This can, however, pose a challenge. Proceeding from the classical theory of the term as a linguistic representation of a concept “stable” over time, shared by domain experts, and built by specific differentiation, this paper presents an ontology-based method to identify terms and find equivalents. By representing all concepts of a subject field in a computer-readable form, we obtain an ontology that represents all identified concepts within the domain as well as the observable relationships among them. The method is applied to a portion of the domain of the balance of payments and international investment position. The paper shows how building an ontology using TEDI (ontoTerminology EDItor) can help to identify terms and find equivalents. The approach is semasiological – the work is corpus-based – as well as onomasiological – it relies on inputs by domain experts regarding both the linguistic and the conceptual dimensions

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