Abstract

To formulate definitions that meet user needs, terminologists and specialised lexicographers must know how to effectively select information. However, most definition writing guidelines are based on the specification of necessary and sufficient characteristics, which has serious drawbacks because it downplays the role of context (understood as any factor affecting how a term is interpreted) in specialised meaning construction. This paper focuses on thematic variation, an important type of contextual variation, and its representation in terminological definitions. To this end, this paper presents a corpus-based approach to writing definitions that takes into account thematic variation in the selection of information.

中文翻译：

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一种灵活的术语定义方法：表示主题变化

摘要

为了制定满足用户需求的定义，术语学家和专业词典编纂者必须知道如何有效地选择信息。然而，大多数定义编写指南都基于必要和充分特征的规范，这具有严重的缺陷，因为它低估了上下文（被理解为影响术语解释的任何因素）在专业意义构建中的作用。本文重点研究主题变体（一种重要的语境变体）及其在术语定义中的表示。为此，本文提出了一种基于语料库的编写定义的方法，该方法考虑了信息选择中的主题变化。