A terminological approach to the investigation of temporal ordering relations in English and German aircraft accident reports
Relations between concepts are not only important for representing domain knowledge but also for text comprehension. Traditional terminological research has mainly been concerned with logical relations, i.e. genus-species relations, and less with ontological relations, e.g. causal and temporal relations. Particularly little information is available on the latter, which are hence the focus of this study. Since temporal relations are vital for structuring many phenomena in the world in terms of temporal order, e.g. in legal procedures, police reports, reconstructions of accidents and crimes, manufacturing processes, chemical procedures, historical chronologies, and so on, they have been renamed temporal ordering relations. Only two broad relation types, i.e. sequence and simultaneity relations, are so far known in terminology. Also, little is known about how such relations are signalled in text. This exploratory study thus had three main goals: (1) to establish whether there are further relation types and to corroborate the proposed types through analysing special-language texts in two languages; (2) to identify and cross-linguistically compare the means conveying these relations; (3) to inquire into the links
Bajaj, Bettina C.
Linguistics
A terminological approach to the investigation of temporal ordering relations in English and German aircraft accident reports. Relations between concepts are not only important for representing domain knowledge but also for text comprehension. Traditional terminological research has mainly been concerned with logical relations, i.e. genus-species relations, and less with ontological relations, e.g. causal and temporal relations. Particularly little information is available on the latter, which are hence the focus of this study. Since temporal relations are vital for structuring many phenomena in the world in terms of temporal order, e.g. in legal procedures, police reports, reconstructions of accidents and crimes, manufacturing processes, chemical procedures, historical chronologies, and so on, they have been renamed temporal ordering relations. Only two broad relation types, i.e. sequence and simultaneity relations, are so far known in terminology. Also, little is known about how such relations are signalled in text. This exploratory study thus had three main goals: (1) to establish whether there are further relation types and to corroborate the proposed types through analysing special-language texts in two languages; (2) to identify and cross-linguistically compare the means conveying these relations; (3) to inquire into the links
terminological investigation temporal_order relation english_german aircraft accident report relations concept important represent domain knowledge also text_comprehension traditional terminological mainly_concerned logical relation genus species relation less ontological relation causal temporal_relation particularly little_information available latter hence focus study since temporal_relation vital structure many phenomena world term temporal_order legal procedure police report reconstruction accident crime manufacturing_process chemical procedure historical chronology temporal ordering relation two_broad relation type sequence simultaneity relation far know terminology also little_known relation signal text exploratory_study thus three_main goal establish_whether relation type corroborate propose type analyse special_language text two_language identify cross_linguistically compare mean relation inquire link