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Description This module introduces students to the theory and practice of terminology, and gives students hands-on experience of contemporary tools used in terminography, including terminology management systems, term extraction tools, and corpus processing tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Construct a small concept system to represent the structure of a selected area of specialised knowledge. 2. Write professional-standard definitions for specialised concepts. 3. Evaluate terminographic and lexicographic sources. 4. Use conceptual tools to identify instances of synomymy, antonymy, hyponymy, etc, in a single language, and instances of equivalence across languages. 5. Extract useful conceptual and linguistic knowledge from specialised corpora. 6. Apply appropriate tools (corpus, term extraction, term management tools, etc) in terminographic projects. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and
Learning Activities - general theory of terminology - practical terminography (incl. corpus-based terminography)- terminology management systems (Multiterm)- terminology extraction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Programme or List of Programmes |
GDALIS | GDip in Applied Lang & Intercul Studies |
GTS | Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies |
MTS | Master of Arts in Translation Studies |
MTT | MSc in Translation Technology |
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