Publication
Terminology Harmonization in Industry Classification Standards
Dagmar Gromann; Thierry Declerck
In: Tatiana Gornostay (Hrsg.). Proceedings of CHAT 2012: The 2nd Workshop on the Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology Resources. Workshop on the Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology Resources (CHAT-12), located at TKE 2012, June 22, Madrid, Spain, Pages 19-26, ISBN 1650-3740, Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköping, 6/2012.
Abstract
Terminology as a research area has shifted from portray-
ing terms as lexical units to a concept-oriented approach. Accordingly,
the process of terminology harmonization has to cope with the concept
orientation of term entries. One approach to harmonization is the inte-
gration of several terminologies into one centralized terminology reposi-
tory, which is either formalized as a conceptual system or points to such
systems. In contrast, we propose an approach adopting the linked data
strategy by linking resources that preserve the initial terminologies with
the corresponding lexical items and the related ontology concepts. As
ontologies traditionally link concepts but not the natural language des-
ignation of concepts, we propose a model that utilizes terminologies for
terminological and ontology lexicons for morpho-syntactic information.
We illustrate our suggested approach, applying it to closely related but
competing industry classification standards.