On Thursday, December 20, 2018, Julien ROCHE, a PhD student in ICST Computer Science at the Laboratory of Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing (LISTIC), will defend his thesis " Le tournant ontologique en terminologie" (The ontological turn in terminology).
The defense will take place at 9am, in room 2A212, building 2, at Polytech-Annecy, on the Bourget-du-Lac campus.
Summary of the thesis
Operationalizing terminologies for information processing purposes requires a computational representation of the conceptual system. The concept theory on which ISO Terminology is based does not currently allow such a computational representation [Roche TKE 2012]. Although ISO Terminology standards are not intended for the operationalization of terminologies, but rather for human-to-human communication, they do state that they can be used to model information and data [ISO 704:2009]. The results of disciplines such as knowledge engineering have highlighted the need for a theory of concepts that can give rise to a computer representation. In this context, ontologies, derived from knowledge engineering, are one of the most interesting perspectives for modeling the conceptual system of a terminology [Roche 2015, Handbook of Terminology].