Terminology, corpora and language resources
This research area covers contrastive applied terminological and lexicographical research especially within the economic-administrative and legal domains.
Our aim is to provide research-based terminological resources to support higher education, trade and industry as well as society in general within the field of professional communication.
Our researchers who work with terminology, terminography and specialised lexicography have developed new theories on concepts, conceptual analyses and ontologies to enhance professional communication. We also develop language technology solutions to improve terminological databases. This includes the implementation of semi-automatic term extraction tools based on parallel and multilingual corpora.
We are active in developing our own monolingual and multilingual resources and utilizing them in empirical research, especially within professional and academic communication. These resources include spoken and written corpora, term bases, technology for semi-automatic corpus-based term extraction, web-based corpora, parallel corpora containing translations of texts from various specialist domains, as well as the occurrence and transfer of terminology from specialist to general text domains.