Lexique-grammaire et Unitex : quels apports pour une description terminologique bilingue de qualité ? : analyse sur deux corpus comparables de médecine thermale

摘要

Terminology is the science concerned with the study of the terms, those lexical units thatpossess a specialized meaning within a scientific or technical context. Established as ascience in the first half of 20th century, terminology is an interdisciplinary field takingadvantage of contributions from linguistics, logics, and informatics. This latter in particularhas allowed significant developments in terminology. Lexicon-grammar is an empirical method of linguistic description inspired by the works of Zellig S. Harris, which has been founded by the French linguist Maurice Gross at the end of the 1960s. Linguistic description has been carried out in parallel with the development of informatics tools able to formalise and exploit linguistic data, including the software Unitex (Paumier, 2002). Both lexicon-grammar and Unitex have an interesting, largely unexploited potential for further developments in terminology. In this work, we assess the contributions brought by lexicon-grammar and Unitex to a high-profile bilingual terminological description. After defining quality criteria for such terminological description, we carry out our evaluation on two comparable corpora specific of thermal medicine, both in French and in Italian