Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija „Terminologija ir terminografija: raida, aktualijos, perspektyvos“

227Terminologija | 2013 | 20 International Scientific Conference on Terminology and Terminography: Development, Current Issues, Perspectives ASTA MITKEVIČIENĖ Lietuvių kalbos institutas On October 10-11, 2013, the Lithuanian Language Institute hosted the International Scientific Conference on Terminology. The title of this year’s conference is – Terminology and terminography: development, current issues, perspectives. It was organized by the Terminology Centre of the Lithuanian Language Institute and Infoterm (International Terminology Information Centre). 10 papers were presented in English and 14 in Lithuanian. The Terminology Conference has become truly international in 10 years: foreign speakers have come from Spain, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Russia, Latvia (compare the 2003 International Terminology Conference, which was limited to Baltic States). The conference was opened by guest speaker Sergiusas GrinevassGriniewias czius (Balstoge University, Moscow Humanitarian Pedagogical Institute), who spoke about the principles and perspectives of terminological activity. The speaker separately discussed terminology science (theoretical activity) and terminology work (practical activity). Practical terminology work, according to the professor, includes terminology inventory, management, harmonization of individual terminology, construction of terminology systems, terminographic activities, terminology editing, expertise, translation, terminology documentation and information services, implementation of standardized terminology, terminological training of specialists and non-specialists, terminology management and planning. Professor emeritus Heribert Picht examined concepts as a reflection of social change. In his view, social concepts: 1) are mostly interdisciplinary, 2) some of them can be highly normative, 3) their life cycle is largely determined by social factors, 4) most of them are constructs, 5) they depend on ideology or religion, 6) they can be argued and interpreted, 7) they can change suddenly or gradually. International 228 Asta Mitkevičienė | International Scientific Conference Terminology | ir terminografija: raida, aktualijos, perspektyvos The Latvian and Lithuanian team – Juris Borzovas (University of Latvia), Albina Auksoriūtė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) and Ilze Irēna Ilziņa (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Latvia) – prepared a presentation on information technology (IT) terminology in Latvia and Lithuania. After selecting 220 English IT terms, their equivalents in Latvian and Lithuanian were analyzed – 818 and 276 respectively. Infoterm representatives Blanca Stella Giraldo Perez and Christian Galinski talked about the differences and similarities between microcontent and structured content. They compared the concepts of content, information and data, structured content with unstructured, microcontent unit with terminological record, and spoke about digital learning objects. The presentation of Elvira Sorokina (Moscow State Regional University) was devoted to the ever-current problem of synonymy of terms. The professor outlined the reasons for the emergence of synonymous terms. Another guest speaker – Anita Nuopponen from the University of Vaasa (Finland) – looked at social media as a means of terminological information and activity. For terminology activities, social media is useful for communication (e.g. LinkedIn), sharing (e.g. terminology blogs, Pinterest), meetings (e.g. webinars), learning (e.g. webinars), collaboration (e.g. TermWiki), research. Sussanne Lervard (Termplus ApS and Textile Research Centre, University of Copenhagen) presented the Danish project textilnet.dk. One of its objectives is to create an online database of historical textile and costume terms (http://dragt.dk). Ricardo Eitoa-Bruna, a lecturer at the Carlos III University of Madrid, spoke about the integration of linguistic resources into engineering processes, suggested how to harmonize XML-based term bases with the equipment used by engineers to manage technical content. Péter Gaál (University of Pécs, Hungary) presented a presentation prepared together with Ágota Fóris (Charles Gaspar University, Hungary) entitled Lexicography and terminology in terminology teaching. A two-year master’s programme in terminology was launched in Hungary. Evgenia Dimitrieva (Baltic State Fishing Fleet Academy at Kaliningrad State Technical University) spoke about maritime English, its teaching in the maritime school. Lithuanian presentations were devoted to both the history of terminology and the problems of modern terminology. Stasys Keinys (Institute of Lithuanian Language) spoke about the unambiguity and ambiguity of terms. According to the lecturer, both in research and practical terminology work 229Terminology | 2013 | 20 It is not always appropriate to use imperative words requirement, prohibition, not allowed, probably we do not always know whether a term is really unambiguous or even more, whether it will be so after some time. Robertas Stunžinas (Institute of Lithuanian Language) analyzed the microsystem of folk terms for building materials in terms of their origin, hierarchical relationships, synonymy and polysemantic aspects. Regina Kvašytė (University of Šiauliai) compared the Latvian (2011) and Lithuanian (2012) language didactics dictionaries published in recent years. The lecturer discussed the terminographic aspects of dictionaries, analyzed their terminology, and stated that international terminology prevails in language didactics, although there are some innovations. Egidijus Zaikauskas (European Commission) spoke about the relationship between English as the original language and Lithuanian as the translation language. This relationship can be quantitative (number of elements) and qualitative (correspondence, specification, grammatical, constructive and lexical expansion or contraction, grammatical and lexical substitution, demetaphorization, etc.). Several papers examined the history of terms in a particular subject area. Diana Šilobritaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) spoke about the one-word terms in S. Skačkauskas’ Arithmetic (1897) textbook – most of them are no longer used, but are important for the history of mathematical terminology. Palmira Zemlevičiūtė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) discussed the Lithuanian single-word medical terms of the first Lithuanian medical science journal Medicina ir gamta (1913), their origin, composition, connection with current medical terminology. More than half of these terms have survived and are still used in medical science. Solvita Labanauskienė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) analyzed Lithuanian and Latvian plant names in Antanas Juška’s Latvian-Lithuanian-Polish Dictionary (about 1875, unprinted) and Mykolas Miežinis’s Lithuanian-Latvian-Polish-Russian Dictionary (1894). She talked about the origin of plant names, synonyms and variants. Aušra Rimkutė (Vytauto Didžiojo University) will present on the subject of catechisms from 1800–1882 and their religious terms. Asta Mitkevičienė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) discussed the names of figures and tropes in the textbooks of literary science from 1918 to 1940, focusing on the origin, synonymy and Lithuanianization of the terms. Other Lithuanian presentations were related to information technology in one way or another. Textbook terminology issues were discussed by two teams of speakers from Vytautas Magnus University. Erika Rimkutė and Irena Markievicz presented the Education and Science Terms Dictionary and 230 Asta Mitkevičienė | International Scientific Conference Terminology | ir terminografija: raida, aktualijos, perspektyvos the Education and Science Terms Ontology (both available online) prepared in 2012 on the basis of specialized textbooks. The dictionary defines about 300 terms, provides examples of their use, left and right collocates of terms, concordance, etc. The definitions of this dictionary are used to construct the relations and rules of the above-mentioned ontological classes. The presentation by Agnė Bielinskiene, Loïco Boizou and Jolanta Kovalevskaitė was dedicated to the identification of educational and scientific terminological contexts in specialized texts using the model method – using the most common models, a fairly large number of suitable contexts is obtained. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Law on the Term Bank of the Republic of Lithuania. Alvydas Umbrasas (Institute of Lithuanian Language) discussed the structure, content, query statistics of the Terms Bank (http://terminai.vlkk.lt) and others. Currently, the Terms Bank contains more than 210,000 term articles, more than 9,000 approved legislative terms, and data from 36 term dictionaries. At present, it is the most universal and reliable freely available source of Lithuanian terms. Egidijus Zaikauskas (European Commission) discussed another large digital systematic term set – the EU Institutions’ term base IATE. It now contains about 48,000 Lithuanian terms (about 10,000 defined), of which about 3,500 have a “very reliable” rating. The speaker compared the non-public internal IATE with the public IATE, which is available at http://iate.europa.eu. Renata Špukienė (Tilde IT) looked at terminology and language from a business perspective. The speaker presented Tilde IT’s work in the fields of localization and machine translation, discussed changing issues, new challenges and prospects. R. Špukienė concluded her presentation with rhetorical questions: what will happen to terminology next, will programs create terms and terminologists only review them? The thesis of the conference can be found on the website of the Lithuanian Language Institute (http://www.lki.lt/LKI_LT/images/TMA/2013_tez_s_abstracts.pdf). The next international scientific conference on terminology at the Lithuanian Language Institute will traditionally take place in a couple of years. Received 2013i10i21 Asta Mitkevičienė Lietuvių kalbos institutas P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania Email: [email protected]