Esta tese parte do exame de convencionalidades terminológicas e de colocações especializadas em um corpus de artigos científicos em inglês da área de Ciência da Computação com cerca de 400 mil palavras/tokens. Em seguida, investiga os desdobramentos pedagógicos desses elementos em um contexto de ensino de Inglês Instrumental em cursos técnicos e tecnológicos da área de Informática/Computação da Rede Federal de Educação Profissional do Brasil. O levantamento e análise de padrões léxico-terminológicos do corpus foi realizado com apoio computacional e de acordo com os aportes da Linguística de Corpus e da Teoria Comunicativa da Terminologia. Uma vez verificados a relevância terminológica e o potencial pedagógico das ocorrências de terminologias e de colocações no corpus reunido, são feitas propostas de apoio terminológico-pedagógico para o ensino de leitura de artigos científicos em inglês, o que inclui a proposta de desenho básico de um aplicativo educacional para acesso em smartphones e tablets. A pesquisa também levanta as necessidades terminológicas e pedagógicas dos alunos envolvidos no contexto educacional sob estudo, evidenciando diferenças entre os estudantes de cursos técnicos e de cursos tecnológicos. Por fim, o trabalho conclui ser possível e produtivo levar dados de descrição terminológica e de descrição de padrões de um corpus para um cenário didático-pedagógico de Inglês Instrumental na Educação Profissional, desde que isso seja balizado por uma série de aportes teóricos, dos estudos de Terminologia aos estudos sobre o Ensino de línguas estrangeiras. / This thesis sets off on examining terminological conventionalities and specialized collocations in a research article corpus in English in the Computer Science area containing around 400 thousand words/tokens. Then, we investigate the pedagogical ramifications of these elements in a context of English for Specific Purposes courses in the area of Informatics/Computer Science in the Federal Institutions of Professional Education in Brazil. The survey and analysis of lexical-terminological patterns from the corpus was performed with computational support, and according to Corpus Linguistics as well as Communicative Theory of Terminology framework. Once we verified the terminological relevance and pedagogical potential of the terminological occurrences and collocations in the corpus compiled, we proposed terminological-pedagogical aid for English research article reading, which includes a proposal of basic design of an educational app for smartphones and tablets access. This research also examines terminological and pedagogical needs involved in this educational context, highlighting differences between students in technical courses and technological courses. Overall, this investigation has found possible and productive to take terminological description data as well as pattern descriptions from a corpus to a didactic-pedagogical scenario of ESP in Professional Education, once this is settled by a range of theoretical considerations from Terminology studies to Foreign Language Teaching studies.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:25:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2803.pdf: 1502463 bytes, checksum: f8ef76dd8fc8086da52568182426288b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-27 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The making of the definitions is the most complex step in terminological research which aims to compile specialized dictionaries, for the good ones are evaluated mainly as to the quality of their definitions. As there are differences between terms and words, there are also differences between defining them. While the lexicographic definition specifies and describes the meanings of words as language units, giving all their possible senses, the terminological definition (TD) identifies and describes terms only in reference to the specific conceptual system to which they belong. Therefore, the TD is the object of this Master s study. Our undergraduate experience in terminological research in the Group of Studies and Research in Terminology (GETerm), revealed several difficulties associated with the TD process. The defining method was changed, adapted, extended, and revised to handle the challenges of the research. From that experience, we came to a set of methodological procedures to aid the TD routines in any domain knowledge. Accordingly, this Master s dissertation research aims to systematize those procedures to be implemented into a Web-based, computational environment (E-Termos) to aid research groups in their terminological endeavor. / A elaboração da definição é a etapa mais complexa e custosa numa pesquisa terminológica que objetiva a elaboração de dicionários especializados, já que um bom dicionário se avalia, principalmente, pela qualidade das suas definições. Assim como há diferença entre termo e palavra, também há diferenças entre os modos de definir termos e palavras. Enquanto a definição lexicográfica descreve e delimita os sentidos das palavras enquanto unidades do sistema, oferecendo todas as acepções possíveis, a definição terminológica (DT) oferece a identificação do termo somente com referência ao sistema conceitual do qual faz parte. É esse segundo tipo de definição, portanto, que é objeto desta pesquisa de mestrado. Na experiência adquirida durante nossa pesquisa terminológica realizada durante a Iniciação Científica, junto ao Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Terminologia (GETerm), deparamo-nos com diversas dificuldades para a elaboração da DT. O método de trabalho foi por diversas vezes alterado, adaptado, ampliado, revisto, de forma a dar conta dos desafios que iam surgindo. A partir dessa experiência, chegamos a um conjunto de procedimentos metodológicos úteis para a redação da definição, em qualquer domínio de conhecimento. Pretendeu-se, pois, nesta pesquisa de mestrado, sistematizar esses procedimentos, de modo a proporcionar conhecimento linguístico que será implementado num ambiente computacional baseado na Web, de maneira a auxiliar demais grupos que desenvolvem pesquisas terminológicas em língua portuguesa a elaborar a DT de forma mais sistemática.

Esta tese parte do exame de convencionalidades terminológicas e de colocações especializadas em um corpus de artigos científicos em inglês da área de Ciência da Computação com cerca de 400 mil palavras/tokens. Em seguida, investiga os desdobramentos pedagógicos desses elementos em um contexto de ensino de Inglês Instrumental em cursos técnicos e tecnológicos da área de Informática/Computação da Rede Federal de Educação Profissional do Brasil. O levantamento e análise de padrões léxico-terminológicos do corpus foi realizado com apoio computacional e de acordo com os aportes da Linguística de Corpus e da Teoria Comunicativa da Terminologia. Uma vez verificados a relevância terminológica e o potencial pedagógico das ocorrências de terminologias e de colocações no corpus reunido, são feitas propostas de apoio terminológico-pedagógico para o ensino de leitura de artigos científicos em inglês, o que inclui a proposta de desenho básico de um aplicativo educacional para acesso em smartphones e tablets. A pesquisa também levanta as necessidades terminológicas e pedagógicas dos alunos envolvidos no contexto educacional sob estudo, evidenciando diferenças entre os estudantes de cursos técnicos e de cursos tecnológicos. Por fim, o trabalho conclui ser possível e produtivo levar dados de descrição terminológica e de descrição de padrões de um corpus para um cenário didático-pedagógico de Inglês Instrumental na Educação Profissional, desde que isso seja balizado por uma série de aportes teóricos, dos estudos de Terminologia aos estudos sobre o Ensino de línguas estrangeiras. / This thesis sets off on examining terminological conventionalities and specialized collocations in a research article corpus in English in the Computer Science area containing around 400 thousand words/tokens. Then, we investigate the pedagogical ramifications of these elements in a context of English for Specific Purposes courses in the area of Informatics/Computer Science in the Federal Institutions of Professional Education in Brazil. The survey and analysis of lexical-terminological patterns from the corpus was performed with computational support, and according to Corpus Linguistics as well as Communicative Theory of Terminology framework. Once we verified the terminological relevance and pedagogical potential of the terminological occurrences and collocations in the corpus compiled, we proposed terminological-pedagogical aid for English research article reading, which includes a proposal of basic design of an educational app for smartphones and tablets access. This research also examines terminological and pedagogical needs involved in this educational context, highlighting differences between students in technical courses and technological courses. Overall, this investigation has found possible and productive to take terminological description data as well as pattern descriptions from a corpus to a didactic-pedagogical scenario of ESP in Professional Education, once this is settled by a range of theoretical considerations from Terminology studies to Foreign Language Teaching studies.

Les ontologies sont devenues incontournables pour définir des vocabulaires standardisés ainsi qu'une représentation partagée d'un domaine d'intérêt. La notion de Ressource Termino-Ontologique (RTO) permet d'associer une partie terminologique et/ou linguistique aux ontologies afin d'établir une distinction claire entre la manifestation linguistique (le terme) et la notion qu'elle dénote (le concept). Les RTOs sont actuellement au cœur de nombreuses méthodes, outils et applications de l'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC), discipline de l'Intelligence Artificielle permettant en particulier de développer des méthodes et des outils de capitalisation de connaissances.L'objectif de cette thèse, qui s'inscrit dans les problématiques de l'IC, est de capitaliser des données expérimentales issues de documents textuels (articles scientifiques, rapports de projet, etc.) afin de pouvoir les réutiliser dans des outils d'aide à la décision. Nous avons d'abord défini la notion de relation n-aire permettant de relier plusieurs arguments et l'avons modélisée dans une nouvelle RTO, baptisée naRyQ. Cette notion de relation n-aire nous a permis de modéliser des mesures expérimentales (e.g. diffusivité de l'oxygène dans un aliment, perméabilité à l'oxygène d'un emballage, broyage d'une biomasse, etc.) réalisées sur différents objets d'études (produit alimentaire, emballage, procédé de transformation, etc.). Afin d'implémenter la plateforme de capitalisation, nommée @Web, nous avons modélisé la RTO naRyQ en OWL/SKOS et défini l'ensemble des contraintes de cohérence qu'elle doit respecter. Enfin, une RTO étant amenée à évoluer pour répondre aux besoins de changement, nous avons proposé une méthode de gestion de l'évolution de cette RTO qui permet de maintenir sa cohérence de manière préventive. Cette méthode est implémentée dans le plug-in Protégé, nommé DynarOnto. / This PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence deals with knowledge engineering. Ontology, which can be defined as a controlled vocabulary allowing a community to share a common representation of a given area, is one of the key elements of knowledge engineering. Our framework is the capitalization of experimental data extracted from scientific documents (scientific articles, project reports, etc.), in order to feed decision support systems. The capitalization is guided by an ontological and terminological resource (OTR). An OTR associates an ontology with a terminological and/or a linguistic part in order to establish a clear distinction between the term and the notion it denotes (the concept). Experimental data can be represented by n-ary relations linking arguments of the experimentation, i.e. experimental measurements (e.g. oxygen diffusivity in food, oxygen permeability in packaging, biomass grinding, etc.), with studied objects (food, packaging, transformation process, etc.). We have defined the n-ary relation concept and a nary Relation between Quantitative experimental data OTR, called naRyQ. Our modeling relies on OWL2-DL and SKOS, W3C languages. Moreover, we have studied the evolution of such an OTR, extending the existing works taking into account i) the specificity of our OTR which deals with interdependent concepts and ii) its language representation. For that, we have proposed a preventive ontology evolution methodology defining elementary and composed changes based on a set of consistency constraints defined for our naRyQ OTR. Our contributions are implemented in two systems : our naRyQ OTR is nowadays the core of the existing capitalization system @Web and our evolution method is implemented in a Protégé plug-in called DynarOnto.

Aus der Einleitung: „Terminological knowledge representation systems (TKR systems) are powerful tools not only to represent but also to reason about the knowledge on the terminology of an application domain. Their particular power lie in their ability to infer implicit knowledge from the knowledge explicitly stored in a knowledge base. Mainly, a TKR system consists of three parts: First, a terminological knowledge base which contains the explicit description of the concepts relevant for the application domain. Second, an assertional knowledge base which contains the description of concrete individuals and their relations. This description of concrete individuals is realized using the terminology fixed in the terminological knowledge base. Third, a TKR system comprises an inference engine which is able to infer implicit properties of the defined concepts and individuals such as subclass/superclass relations amongst concepts (subsumption), the classifcation of all defned concepts with respect to the subclass/superclass relation. This yields the class taxonomy. whether there exists an interpretation of the terminology where a given concept has at least one instance (satisfiability), to enumerate all individuals that are instances of a given concept (retrieval), given a concrete individual, to enumerate the most specific concepts of the terminology this individual is an instance of.”

In two previous papers we have investigates the problem of computing the least common subsumer (lcs) and the most specific concept (msc) for the description logic EL in the presence of terminological cycles that are interpreted with descriptive semantics, which is the usual first-order semantics for description logics. In this setting, neither the lcs nor the msc needs to exist. We were able to characterize the cases in which the lcs/msc exists, but it was not clear whether this characterization yields decidability of the existence problem. In the present paper, we develop a common graph-theoretic generalization of these characterizations, and show that the resulting property is indeed decidable, thus yielding decidability of the existence of the lcs and the msc. This is achieved by expressing the property in monadic second-order logic on infinite trees. We also show that, if it exists, then the lcs/msc can be computed in polynomial time.

L'objectiu principal d'aquesta tesi és dissenyar un model d'un Sistema d'Extracció Automàtica de Candidats a Unitats de Significació Especialitzada (SEACUSE) basat en fonaments lingüístics de diferents tipus i adequat a les necessitats d'unes activitats professionals concretes.Per fer-ho, en el primer capítol es descriu els sistemes d'extracció automàtica de candidats a terme (SEACAT) i s'analitza i valora els principals SEACAT amb l'objectiu d'elaborar un estat de la qüestió en aquest camp que evidenciï les característiques i sobretot les limitacions d'aquests sistemes.En el segon capítol, en primer lloc, es validen les hipòtesis que vam postular en el treball de recerca sobre els patrons estructurals de les UTP i en segon lloc a comprovar les principals limitacions dels SEACAT que es basen en patrons morfosintàctics. Aquestes limitacions es manifesten en dos aspectes: el silenci (unitats pertinents no detectades per l'extractor) i el soroll (unitats no pertinents presentades com si ho fossin).Les dades que es desprenen de l'anàlisi del silenci i el soroll s'estudien en el tercer i quart capítol, respectivament. Així, primer s'analitzen els tipus i les causes de silenci que produeixen els SEACAT, i tot seguit els tipus i les causes del soroll generat per aquests sistemes.El cinquè proposa elements i estratègies perquè un sistema d'extracció automàtica redueixi el silenci i el soroll, i d'aquesta manera aconsegueixi que els seus resultats s'acostin més al reconeixement i delimitació manuals de les unitats de significació especialitzada.El sisè capítol introdueix el punt de vista de l'usuari i planteja el fet que no totes les activitats professionals requereixen els mateixos tipus ni el mateix nombre d'unitats especialitzades d'un text. Aquesta hipòtesi és verificada a través d'una prova experimental basada en les necessitats de quatre activitats professionals diferents.I, finalment, en el setè capítol, s'exposa una proposta de model de SEACUSE que, a més de les estratègies plantejades en el capítol cinquè, té en compte les finalitats dels professionals a l'hora de presentar els resultats. / El objetivo principal de esta tesis es diseñar un modelo de un Sistema de Extracción Automática de Candidatos a Unidades de Significación Especializada (SEACUSE) basado en fundamentos lingüísticos diferentes y adecuado a las necesidades de unas actividades profesionales concretas.En el primer capítulo se describen los sistemas de extracción automática de candidatos a término (SEACAT) y se analizan y valoran los principales SEACAT con el objetivo de elaborar un estado de la cuestión en este campo que evidencie las características y sobre todo las limitaciones de estos sistemas.En el segundo capítulo, primeramente, se validan las hipótesis que postulamos en el proyecto de investigación previo a la tesis doctoral sobre los patrones estructurales de las UTP y después se comprueba las principales limitaciones de los SEACAT que se basan en patrones morfosintácticos. Estas limitaciones se manifestar en dos aspectos: el silencio (unidades pertinentes no detectadas por el extractor) y el ruido (unidades no pertinentes presentadas como si lo fueran).Los datos que se desprenden del análisis del silencio y del ruido se estudian en los capítulos tercero y cuarto, respectivamente. Así, primero se analizan los tipos y las causas de silencio que producen los SEACAT, y seguidamente los tipos y las causas del ruido generado por estos sistemas.El quinto propone elementos y estrategias para que un sistema de extracción automática reduzca el silencio y el ruido, y de esta manera consiga que sus resultados se aproximen más al reconocimiento y delimitación manuales de las unidades de significación especializada.El sexto capítulo introduce el punto de vista del usuario y plantea el hecho de que no todas las actividades profesionales requieren los mismos tipos ni el mismo número de unidades especializadas de un texto. Esta hipótesis se verifica a través de una prueba experimental basada en las necesidades de cuatro actividades profesionales diferentes.Y, finalmente, en el último capítulo, se expone una propuesta de un modelo de SEACUSE que, además de las estrategias planteadas en el quinto capítulo, tiene en cuenta las finalidades de los profesionales en la presentación de los resultados. / The main objective of this dissertation is to design a model for an Automatic Extraction System for Candidates of Specialized Meaning Units (AESCSMU) based upon different types of linguistic foundations that are adequate to meet the needs of concrete professional activities.To achieve this purpose, the first chapter describes the automatic extraction systems for term candidates (AESTCs). It also analyzes and makes an evaluation of the main AESTCs with the purpose of presenting the state of the issue in this field of knowledge, while showing the characteristics and, above all, the limitations of these systems.The second chapter validates, in the first place, the hypotheses that are going to be taken for granted during the research project about the structural patterns of the multiword units, and, in the second place, tests the main limitations of the AESTCs that are based upon morphosyntactic patterns. These limitations become manifest in two aspects: silence (when the extractor does not detect pertinent units) and noise (when non-pertinent units are presented as if they were pertinent).Data derived from the analysis of silence and noise are studied both on the third and fourth chapters. There, we first analyze the types and causes of silence produced by the AESTCs, and then the types and causes of the noise generated by these systems.The fifth chapter proposes elements and strategies so that automatic extraction systems may reduce silence as well as noise. This way we can accomplish that their results may come closer to the manual identification and delimitation of specialized meaning units.The sixth chapter introduces of the user's point of view, and states the fact that not all the professional activities require the same type and the same number of specialized units from a text. This hypothesis is verified through an experimental test based upon the needs of four different professional activities.Finally, the seventh and last chapter proposes a possible model of an AESCSMU that, besides the strategies presented on chapter five, considers the goals of professionals at the time of presenting the results.

Multilingual terminological resources do not always include valid equivalents of legal terms for two main reasons. Firstly, legal systems can differ from one language community to another and even from one country to another because each has its own history and traditions. As a result, the non-isomorphism between legal and linguistic systems may render the identification of equivalents a particularly challenging task. Secondly, by focusing primarily on the definition of equivalence, a notion widely discussed in translation but not in terminology, the literature does not offer solid and systematic methodologies for assigning terminological equivalents. As a result, there is a lack of criteria to guide both terminologists and translators in the search and validation of equivalent terms. This problem is even more evident in the case of predicative units, such as verbs. Although some terminologists (L‘Homme 1998; Lerat 2002; Lorente 2007) have worked on specialized verbs, terminological equivalence between units that belong to this part of speech would benefit from a thorough study. By proposing a novel methodology to assign the equivalents of specialized verbs, this research aims at defining validation criteria for this kind of predicative units, so as to contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon of terminological equivalence as well as to the development of multilingual terminography in general, and to the development of legal terminography, in particular. The study uses a Portuguese-English comparable corpus that consists of a single genre of texts, i.e. Supreme Court judgments, from which 100 Portuguese and 100 English specialized verbs were selected. The description of the verbs is based on the theory of Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985; Fillmore and Atkins 1992), on the FrameNet methodology (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010), as well as on the methodology for compiling specialized lexical resources, such as DiCoInfo (L‘Homme 2008), developed in the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte at the Université de Montréal. The research reviews contributions that have adopted the same theoretical and methodological framework to the compilation of lexical resources and proposes adaptations to the specific objectives of the project. In contrast to the top-down approach adopted by FrameNet lexicographers, the approach described here is bottom-up, i.e. verbs are first analyzed and then grouped into frames for each language separately. Specialized verbs are said to evoke a semantic frame, a sort of conceptual scenario in which a number of mandatory elements (core Frame Elements) play specific roles (e.g. ARGUER, JUDGE, LAW), but specialized verbs are often accompanied by other optional information (non-core Frame Elements), such as the criteria and reasons used by the judge to reach a decision (statutes, codes, previous decisions). The information concerning the semantic frame that each verb evokes was encoded in an xml editor and about twenty contexts illustrating the specific way each specialized verb evokes a given frame were semantically and syntactically annotated. The labels attributed to each semantic frame (e.g. [Compliance], [Verdict]) were used to group together certain synonyms, antonyms as well as equivalent terms. The research identified 165 pairs of candidate equivalents among the 200 Portuguese and English terms that were grouped together into 76 frames. 71% of the pairs of equivalents were considered full equivalents because not only do the verbs evoke the same conceptual scenario but their actantial structures, the linguistic realizations of the actants and their syntactic patterns were similar. 29% of the pairs of equivalents did not entirely meet these criteria and were considered partial equivalents. Reasons for partial equivalence are provided along with illustrative examples. Finally, the study describes the semasiological and onomasiological entry points that JuriDiCo, the bilingual lexical resource compiled during the project, offers to future users. / Les ressources multilingues portant sur le domaine juridique n‘incluent pas toujours d‘équivalents valides pour deux raisons. D‘abord, les systèmes juridiques peuvent différer d‘une communauté linguistique à l‘autre et même d‘un pays à l‘autre, car chacun a son histoire et ses traditions. Par conséquent, le phénomène de la non-isomorphie entre les systèmes juridiques et linguistiques rend difficile la tâche d‘identification des équivalents. En deuxième lieu, en se concentrant surtout sur la définition de la notion d‘équivalence, notion largement débattue en traductologie, mais non suffisamment en terminologie, la littérature ne propose pas de méthodologies solides et systématiques pour identifier les équivalents. On assiste donc à une absence de critères pouvant guider tant les terminologues que les traducteurs dans la recherche et la validation des équivalents des termes. Ce problème est encore plus évident dans le cas d‘unités prédicatives comme les verbes. Bien que certains terminologues (L'Homme, 1998; Lorente et Bevilacqua 2000; Costa et Silva 2004) aient déjà travaillé sur les verbes spécialisés, l‘équivalence terminologique, en ce qui concerne ce type d‘unités, bénéficierait d‘une étude approfondie. En proposant une méthodologie originale pour identifier les équivalents des verbes spécialisés, cette recherche consiste donc à définir des critères de validation de ce type d‘unités prédicatives afin de mieux comprendre le phénomène de l‘équivalence et aussi améliorer les ressources terminologiques multilingues, en général, et les ressources terminologiques multilingues couvrant le domaine juridique, en particulier. Cette étude utilise un corpus comparable portugais-anglais contenant un seul genre de textes, à savoir les décisions des cours suprêmes, à partir duquel 100 verbes spécialisés ont été sélectionnés pour chaque langue. La description des verbes se base sur la théorie de la sémantique des cadres (Fillmore 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985; Fillmore and Atkins 1992), sur la méthodologie de FrameNet (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010), ainsi que sur la méthodologie développée à l‘Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte pour compiler des ressources lexicales spécialisées, telles que le DiCoInfo (L‘Homme 2008). La recherche examine d‘autres contributions ayant déjà utilisé ce cadre théorique et méthodologique et propose des adaptations objectives du projet. Au lieu de suivre une démarche descendante comme le font les lexicographes de FrameNet, la démarche que nous décrivons est ascendante, c‘est-à-dire, pour chaque langue séparément, les verbes sont d‘abord analysés puis regroupés par cadres sémantiques. Dans cette recherche, chacun des verbes « évoque » un cadre ou frame, une sorte de scénario conceptuel, dans lequel un certain nombre d‘acteurs obligatoires (core Frame Elements) jouent des rôles spécifiques (le rôle de juge, le rôle d‘appelant, le rôle de la loi). Mis en discours, les termes sont souvent accompagnés d‘autres renseignements optionnels (non-core Frame Elements) comme ceux des critères utilisés par le juge pour rendre une décision (des lois, des codes, d‘autres décisions antérieures). Tous les renseignements concernant les cadres sémantiques que chacun des verbes évoque ont été encodés dans un éditeur xml et une vingtaine de contextes illustrant la façon spécifique dont chacun des verbes évoque un cadre donné ont été annotés. Les étiquettes attribuées à chaque cadre sémantique (ex. [Compliance], [Verdict]) ont servi à relier certains termes synonymes, certains termes antonymes ainsi que des candidats équivalents. Parmi les 200 termes portugais et anglais regroupés en 76 cadres, 165 paires de candidats équivalents ont été identifiés. 71% des paires d‘équivalents sont des équivalents parfaits parce que les verbes évoquent le même scénario conceptuel, leurs structures actancielles sont identiques, les réalisations linguistiques de chacun des actants sont équivalentes, et les patrons syntaxiques des verbes sont similaires. 29% des paires d‘équivalents correspondent à des équivalents partiels parce qu‘ils ne remplissent pas tous ces critères. Au moyen d‘exemples, l‘étude illustre tous les cas de figure observés et termine en présentant les différentes façons dont les futurs utilisateurs peuvent consulter le JuriDiCo, la ressource lexicale qui a été compilée pendant ce projet.

Em uma de suas definções, a Terminologia representa o conjunto de princípios e métodos adotados no processo de gestão e criação de produtos terminológicos, tais como glossários e dicionários de termos. A sistematização desses métodos envolve a aplicação de ferramentas computacionais específicas e compatíveis com as tarefas terminológicas, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento desses produtos e a difusão de conhecimento especializado. Entretanto, principalmente no Brasil, a combinação da Terminologia e Informática é incipiente, e dentre as atividades do trabalho terminológico é comum a utilização de várias ferramentas não especializados para esse fim. Isso torna o trabalho dos terminólogos muito moroso, pois esse trabalho geralmente é feito por uma equipe multidisciplinar que deve ter acesso, a todo o momento, à versão mais atual das várias etapas da geração de um produto terminológico. Além disso, deixa o gerenciamento dos dados mais complicado, pois não existe um padrão de entrada e saída definido para os programas. Apoiado nos pressupostos da Teoria Comunicativa da Terminologia (TCT), este trabalho apresenta a proposta de desenvolvimento e avaliação do e- Termos, um Ambiente ColaborativoWeb composto por seis módulos de trabalho bem definidos, cujo propósito é automatizar as tarefas de gestão e criação de produtos terminológicos. Cada módulo do e-Termos possui a responsabilidade de abrigar tarefas inerentes ao processo de criação das terminologias, sendo atreladas a eles diferentes ferramentas de apoio lingüístico, que possuem a função de dar suporte às atividades de Processamento de Língua Natural envolvidas nesse processo. Além delas, há também ferramentas colaborativas, designadas para dar apoio às necessidades comunicacionais e de interação da equipe de trabalho. Particularmente com relação ao processo de avaliação proposto, uma de suas características é a capacidade de ser executado em um tempo curto, viabilizando a avaliação controlada de vários grupos, mas executada no ambiente de trabalho do público alvo. As principais contribuições desta pesquisa são o aspecto colaborativo instanciado na prática terminológica, a criação flexível da Ficha Terminológica, a possibilidade didática de uso para o ensino de terminologia, lexicografia e tradução e o processo de avaliação para sistemas colaborativos desenvolvido para o e-Termos, que combina Cenários de Uso e um Questionário de Pesquisa. Utilizando tecnologias Web e da área de Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) para o desenvolvimento da sua arquitetura computacional colaborativa, o e-Termos apresenta-se como um ambiente inovador para a pesquisa terminolóogica assistida por computador, pois automatiza um método prático que exp~oe os postulados da terminologia de orientação descritiva e evidencia todas as etapas do processo de criação de produtos terminológicos com o inédito diferencial colaborativo. Para certificar este êxito, o e-Termos tem recebido um número crescente de novas propostas de projeto, tendo até Agosto de 2009 mais de 130 usuários cadastrados, alocados em 68 diferentes projetos terminológicos / In one of its definitions, Terminology represents the set of principles and methods adopted in the creation and management of terminological products as glossaries and dictionaries of terms. A systematization of these methods includes the application of specific computational tools, compatible with terminological tasks, which contribute to developing such products and disseminating expert knowledge. However, especially in Brazil, the combination of Terminology and Computer Science is still incipient, and to perform the tasks of a terminological work it is typical to employ several nonspecialized tools, which make terminologists\' work very time-consuming, since it is usually carried out by a multidisciplinary team that should have access, all the time, to the latest versions of the various stages of the generation of a terminological product. Moreover, it makes data management more complex, because there is no input/output standard defined for programs. Based on the presuppositions of the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT), this thesis proposes the development and evaluation of e-Termos, a Web Collaborative Environment composed of six well-defined working modules, whose purpose is to automatize tasks for creating and managing terminological products. Each module in e- Termos is responsible for tasks inherent to the process of creating terminologies. Linked to these modules, there are different linguistic support tools that assist the Natural Language Processing activities included in the process. Besides them, there are also collaborative tools for supporting the communication and interaction needs of team members. As far as the proposed evaluation process is concerned, one of its features is that it can be run in a short time, making viable a controlled evaluation of several groups that is, however, run in the work environment of the target audience. The main contributions of this research are the collaborative aspect instantiated in terminological practice, the exible creation of Terminological Records, the possibility of being used for teaching terminology, lexicography and translation, and the evaluation of collaborative systems developed for e-Termos, which combines Scenario-based Evaluations and Surveys. Using Web technologies and Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) to develop its collaborative computational architecture, e-Termos is an innovative environment for computer-assisted terminological research, since it automatizes a useful method that represents the postulates of descriptive terminology and highlights all stages of the process of creating terminological products with the unprecedented collaborative differential. Confirming its success, e-Termos has been receiving a growing number of new project proposals, and in August 2009 has more than 130 registered users in 68 different terminological projects

Cette thèse intitulée « Étude d’une terminologie bilingue (français-arabe) du droit de la propriété intellectuelle sur internet » porte sur la terminologie juridique et traite de la problématique suivante : "Comment peut-on, à travers l’analyse et le dépouillement d'un corpus bien délimité (français et arabe), constituer une terminologie bilingue de la propriété intellectuelle sur Internet, ayant pour retombée la création d’une base de données terminologiques?". Cette base de données est exploitable par des étudiants, des enseignants, des chercheurs, des traducteurs et des organismes spécialisés dans le domaine objet d’étude.L’objectif de la thèse est donc de répondre aux besoins terminologiques d’un public bilingue intéressé au domaine du droit et en particulier à la propriété intellectuelle, en faisant une mise au point et un traitement minutieux des deux langues arabe et française dans trois secteurs d’activité à savoir le droit, l’informatique et l’internet. La confection de cette terminologie est basée sur deux approches : lexico-sémantique et conceptuelle. Cette thèse est constituée de cinq chapitres dans lesquels les processus terminologiques sont analysés minutieusement dans les deux langues du point de vue théorique et pratique. Des contributions et des recommandations sont apportées à travers cette recherche dans le domaine de la terminologie, par exemple, les tentatives visant à combler les lacunes des dictionnaires spécialisés dans les deux langues, la promotion de la langue arabe en matière de logiciels de TAL et de terminologie et le renforcement de la coopération entre les spécialistes du domaine (juristes et informaticiens) et les terminologues. / This thesis entitled “A study of a bilingual terminology (French-Arabic) of the intellectual property law on the internet” tackles the juridical terminology and handles the following research question: “How can we establish, through the analysis and mining of a well-bounded French-Arabic corpus, a bilingual terminology of the intellectual property on the internet leading to the creation of a terminological database?”. This database is usable by students, teachers, researchers, translators and specialized organizations in this field. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to meet the terminological needs of a bilingual public interested in law in general and in intellectual property in particular, by doing a deep processing of the two languages in three activity sectors: law, computer science and internet. The process of creating this terminology database is based on both lexico-semantic and conceptual approaches. This thesis consists of five chapters in which the terminological processes are deeply analyzed in both languages from the theoretical and practical points of view. Among the contributions and recommendations that are made through this research in the field of terminology are the attempts to fill the gaps in specialized dictionaries in both languages, the promotion of Arabic language as regards to Automatic Language Processing (ALP) and terminological softwares and the reinforcement of the cooperation between a field’s specialists (jurists and computer engineers) and terminologists. Keywords: bilingual terminology, terminological database, law, intellectual property, internet, copyright.