Research

Topics

The CvT's main research activities lie in the supervision of master theses (and occasionally bachelor papers) on terminological topics. Most of these dissertations use the GenTerm method to explore a set of concepts within a specific domain for two or more languages.

A number of these theses contribute to larger projects (e.g. the MeSH Termbase Project and the Electronic Dictionary of Communication Terminology); other theses stand on their own.

The following are among the other research topics that CvT staff are involved in:

critical appraisal of terminology management systems and of the CAT-systems that they are part of
critical appraisal of term extraction programs
principles of terminography (termbase design)
principles of electronic dictionary design
theoretical topics in terminology (equivalence issues; concept systems etc.)
terminography: glossaries, controlled vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies etc.
strategies for terminology mining

Publications

(For project-related publications refer to the individual projects. The list below is restricted to publications of a more general nature.)

Lefever, E. & Rigouts Terryn, A. "Computation terminology", in Yuhong Peng, Huihui Huang & Defeng Li (eds.), New Advances in Translation Technology. Applications and Pedagogy. Singapore, Springer, 2024, pp. 141-159.
Vanopstal, K. , Manders, E., Verbesselt J. & Vanopstal, J. "De terminologie van spraakklankstoornissen, een update" Signaal Digitaal 2023 (1), pp. 1-18.
Buysschaert, J. "Terminologie onderwijzen". In: Sterkenburg, P. van, Bonth, R. de, Heylen, K. (red.), In termen van taal. Liber Amicorum Frieda Steurs. S.l. (Schiedam): Scriptum, 2023, pp 61-68.
Rigouts Terryn, A. D-TERMINE : Data-Driven Term Extraction Methodologies Investigated. Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, 2021.
Rigouts Terryn, A. ACTER Terminology Annotation Guidelines. 2021.
Rigouts Terryn, A., et al. “In No Uncertain Terms : A Dataset for Monolingual and Multilingual Automatic Term Extraction from Comparable Corpora.” LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, vol. 54, no. 2, 2020, pp. 385–418, doi:10.1007/s10579-019-09453-9
Campe, P. & De Vos, F. "Termvariatie – welke term is nu de beste?" in E. Ruijsendaal et al. (red.), TiNT-dag 2019. s.l., NL-Term, 2020, pp. 43-51.
Buysschaert, J. & Thelen, M. "Termbepaling: bestaat hier wel een Nederlandse term voor?" in E. Ruijsendaal et al. (red.), TiNT-dag 2019. s.l., NL-Term, 2020, pp. 36-42.
Rigouts Terryn, A., et al. Annotated Corpora for Term Extraction Research (ACTER). Ghent University, 2020.
Rigouts Terryn A., Hoste V., Buysschaert J., Vander Stichele R., Van Campen E., Lefever E., "Validating multilingual hybrid automatic term extraction for search engine optimisation: the use case of EBM-GUIDELINES" in: Argentinian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(2019), pp. 93–108.
Steyaert, K. and Rigouts Terryn, A. “Multilingual term extraction from comparable corpora : informativeness of monolingual term extraction features”. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora at RANLP 2019, BUCC 2019. p.9-18
Rigouts Terryn, Ayla, et al. “Analysing the Impact of Supervised Machine Learning on Automatic Term Extraction : HAMLET vs TermoStat.” Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019) : Natural Language Processing in a Deep Learning World, edited by Galia Angelova et al., 2019, pp. 1013–22
Rigouts Terryn, A., Hoste, V., Lefever, E., Buysschaert, J. "Multilingual hybrid automatic term extraction: the use case of ebpracticenet" in: T. Read, S. Montaner, B. Sedano, (eds.) Technological Innovation for Specialized Linguistic Domains. Languages for Digital Lives and Cultures. Proceedings of TISLID'18. Beau Bassin, Éditions Universitaires Européennes, 2018, pp. 151-162.
Buysschaert, J. "Lexicografie versus terminografie" in: Timothy Colleman, Johan De Caluwe, Veronique De Tier, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Liesbet Triest, Roxane Vandenberghe & Ulrike Vogl (red.), Woorden om te bewaren. Huldeboek voor Jacques Van Keymeulen. Gent, 2018, pp. 167-173.
Vermeiren, H. & Vandewaetere, S. "How translators and interpreters cope in different ways with lexical/terminological uncertainty when they deal with English as the lingua franca: a rationale for specific terminological training" in Terms and Terminology in European Context, Abstracts, 2014.
Vandewaetere, S. "EU-terminology: languages united in diversity? A case-study of Dutch EU texts on education" in Moderne Sprachen 57 (1), 2014, pp. 7-21. http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4265658
Vanopstal, K., Macken, L., Lefever, E., Van de Kauter, M., Buysschaert, J., Hoste, V. "Terminologie: op het snijvlak van ambacht en technologie" in S. Evenepoel, P. Goethals & L. Jooken (eds.), Beschouwingen uit een Talenhuis. Opstellen over onderwijs en onderzoek in de vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie aangeboden aan Rita Godyns. Gent, Academia Press, 2014, pp. 179-189.
Buysschaert, J. "Terminography: in defence of descriptive research" in S. Evenepoel, P. Goethals & L. Jooken (eds.), Beschouwingen uit een Talenhuis. Opstellen over onderwijs en onderzoek in de vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie aangeboden aan Rita Godyns. Gent, Academia Press, 2014, pp. 135-140
Vanopstal, K. , Vander Stichele, R., Laureys, G and Buysschaert, J. "Vocabularies and retrieval tools in biomedicine: disentangling the terminological knot" in Journal of Medical Systems, 2011 35(4). p.527-543. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10916-009-9389-z.
Buysschaert, J. & Defrancq, B. "Terminologie op het web: Google unearth(ed)" in G. Rawoens, red., Taal aan den lijve. Het gebruik van corpora in taalkundig onderzoek en taalonderwijs. (Gent, Academia Press, 2008), pp. 49-68. ISBN 978 90 382 1362 0
Vanopstal K. & Van Wiele K. "Incorporation of two terminology projects into a system for information retrieval using NLP for term expansion" in M. Campos Pardillos and A.G. Gonzalez-Jover (eds.), 1st International conference on Language and Health Care (CD-ROM). (Alicante, IULMA, 2007).
Hoste, V., Vanopstal, K. and Lefever, E. "The Automatic Detection of Scientific Terms in Patient Information" in Proceedings of the Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons (in conjunction with RANLP-2007) (Borovetz, Bulgaria, 2007).
Buysschaert, J. "Terminology management for networks?" in ITI Terminology Network Newsletter. Issue 11 (Feb 2003). Electronic publication.
Buysschaert, J. "Do translators use terminology management systems?" in ITI Terminology Network Newsletter. Issue 11 (Feb 2003). Electronic publication.
Buysschaert, J. "Voor- en nadelen van vertaalgeheugens" in Isabelle Desmidt, red., De Overzet. Een bundel over vertalen. (Gent, Bond Gentse Germanisten, 2002), pp. 67-81.
Buysschaert, J. "Terminografie met de computer: twee voorbeelden" in J. Buysschaert (red), De computer van de Germanist. (Gent, BGG, 1996), pp 11-24

Unpublished research reports

Buysschaert, J. "Automatische taalherkenning voor Nederlands, Engels, Frans, Duits en Spaans. Onderzoek naar een efficiënte methode, uitbreidbaar naar andere talen". Rapport ten behoeve van het project McKnow, KULeuven, 2003-02-13 (6 pp.)
Buysschaert, J. "Woordfilters voor Nederlands, Engels, Frans, Duits en Spaans. Lijsten met hoogfrequente woorden en closed-class items." Rapport ten behoeve van het project McKnow, KULeuven, 2003-02-17 (3 pp. en 12 elektronische bijlagen.)
Buysschaert, J. "Digitale woordenboeken voor integratie in een kennismanagementsysteem". Rapport ten behoeve van het project McKnow, KULeuven, 2004-02-11 (7pp.)