Information Technology per IATE, la banca dati terminologica multilingue dell’Unione Europea

Abstract

Information Technology is the matrix and engine of innovation and change. Thanks to it, various disciplines and sciences evolve and permeate each other. Terminology is one such example. InterActive Terminology for Europe (IATE) is the multilingual, interinstitutional terminological database of the European Union and its objective is to provide a centralised infrastructure for all the EU terminological resources, improving their usability and standardization. The objective of this research is to investigate how to improve IATE's linguistic and terminological resources. The present thesis outlines the most recent Information Technology (IT) developments oriented at IATE's terminology management. It focuses on the projects realized at the Directorate General for Translation of the European Parliament, aimed at the improvement of EU terminology through the use of termbases, as well as on the cooperation agreement between the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Sociali e della Comunicazione of the University of Salerno and the Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament, whose objective is to make the database terminology a tool for semantic interoperability, i.e. the ability of an informatics system to elaborate and exchange data while keeping their precise meaning, regardless of the means and mode used to represent it. ...[edited by Author]