Terminology methods and tools developed for the national terminology portal Termportalen (Norway)

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Clarino

CLARINO is a coordinated effort to develop a national infrastructure for language resources, funded by the Research Council of Norway and linked to the Europe-wide CLARIN ERIC infrastructure. A specific work package led by NHH, WP 7 Terminology Integration, is devoted to the development of a national portal for terminology resources in Norway. Through this effort we are taking an important step towards overcoming the fragmentation problem in the terminology field and addressing the need for coordination of terminological efforts at national and international levels.

In our paper we give an overview of th esystem for terminology management used in our infrastructure Temportalen, including its overall technical architecture project so far. We also report briefly on our experiences in dealing with specific owners of terminology resources and the challenge of integrating a wide array of heterogeneous resources into a common portal.

The most central tasks are the development of a generic data model for interoperable terminology data, the consolidation of domain information into a common classification system, and the development of a relational database and user application. This is tied to systems for authentication and authorisation compliant with the CLARIN infrastructure.

The data model is based on thorough inspection and critical evaluation of the data categories in databases retrieved so far in the project, especially the termbase called NOT, being, by far, the most complex existing terminology database in Norway. We are also concerned that there should be a low threshold for terminology developers to have their resources integrated in the national term portal, and the terminology management application is therefore equipped with a set of predefined interfaces of varying complexity for terminology management.

You can find the pdf presentation of the research here.

Gisle Andersen, Marita Kristiansen, Vemund Olstad
NHH Norwegian School of Economics.