Titre du document / Document title

Discovery and terminology = Découverte et terminologie

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

AHMAD Khurshid ⁽¹⁾ ; SCHIERZ Amanda ⁽¹⁾ ; AL-THUBAITY Abduimohsen ⁽¹⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guidlford, Surrey, ROYAUME-UNI

Résumé / Abstract

Scientists, individually and collectively, appear to be in the business of persuading others that the concepts they cherish are of significant import. Given the intrinsic link between concepts and terms, it can be argued that the more frequent a term, perhaps representing a concept, appears in the literature of a scientific community, the more acceptable it may be to that community. Scientists use neologisms, but rarely, and change the meaning of extant words - they create retronyms. Two case studies, the emergence of artificial intelligence and semiconductor physics, are presented in order to investigate some of the various linguistic processes through which the actual, potential or perceived genesis of a concept maybe communicated. Frequency analysis of full documents, abstracts and journal titles has been carried out so that these concepts, together with their changes, may be identified.

Source / Source

Congrès
TKE 2002 : terminology and knowledge engineering :   ( Nancy, 28-30 August 2002 )
Terminology and knowledge engineering N^o6, Nancy , FRANCE (28/08/2002)
2002  , pp. 1-6[Note(s) : V, 148 p., ] (9 ref.) ISBN 2-7261-1217-X ;  Illustration : Illustration ;

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

INRIA, Le Chesnay, ALLEMAGNE  (2002) (Monographie)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Method ; Lexical creativity ; Artificial intelligence ; Concept ; Scientific discipline ; Lexical frequency ; Lexical change ; Terminology ; Quantitative study ; Corpus linguistics ; Mathematical linguistics ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Physique ; Méthode ; Créativité lexicale ; Intelligence artificielle ; Concept ; Discipline scientifique ; Fréquence lexicale ; Changement lexical ; Terminologie ; Etude quantitative ; Linguistique de corpus ; Linguistique mathématique ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : Y 34046, 35400010841808.0010