IMPLEMENTATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNET TERMINOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

The Danish Centre for Terminology (DANTERM) and the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) are working closely together in research and development projects.

DANTERM has developed an Internet terminology and knowledge management system, i-Term, which can give users access to company-specific terminology from anywhere in the world. The development of i-Term is based on experience gained from co-operation with Danish companies as well as on the results of the CAOS project (Computer-Aided Ontology Structuring), which is carried out at CBS.

i-Term has many advantages, one of these being the graphical module, i-Model, which allows the user to create a domain specific ontology (concept system), comprising all kinds of relations between concepts, characteristics of concepts and subdivision criteria, as recommended in the ISO standards for terminology work. This module builds on some of the principles that have been developed in the CAOS project.

Other advantages of i-Term are the flexible search facilities as well as the layout facilities which allow users to customize the interface according to their own preferences as to types of information given about a concept. i-Term has XML import/export functions and a look-up facility from Word, PowerPoint and other applications. A demo version of i-Term and i-Model is available at www.i-Term.dk.

In this paper I will focus on the underlying principles of the system, especially those of the graphical module for concept systems.