On Thursday, December 20, 2018, Julien ROCHE, a doctoral student in Computer Science at the Laboratory of Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing (LISTIC), will defend his thesis entitled "The ontological turn in terminology."
The defense will take place at 9 a.m. in room 2A212, building 2, at Polytech-Annecy, on the Bourget-du-Lac campus.
Thesis summary
The operationalization of 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 for such a computer representation [Roche TKE 2012]. Even though ISO standards on terminology are not intended to operationalize terminology but rather to facilitate communication between humans, they must be able to be used for modeling information and data [ISO 704:2009]. The results of disciplines such as knowledge engineering have highlighted the need for a concept theory that can be represented in computer form. In this context, ontologies, which originate from knowledge engineering, are one of the most interesting prospects for modeling the conceptual system of terminology [Roche 2015, Handbook of Terminology].