Enhancing a Terminological Database with Terms from a Scientific Domain

This paper reports on the enhancing of a maritime terminological database by means of a set of terms belonging to meteorology. The main phases of this research are described and the initial results outlined: the model of the terminological database, following EWN/IWN; the criteria used to build corpora of specialized texts to be employed as the source for term selection and extraction; the use of a semantic database (IWN) as source for exporting synsets to be coded in the terminological resource and as reference (WN 3.0) for comparing and evaluating synsets. The set of semantic relations useful for codifying new terms belonging to the discipline of meteorology is described; in addition to the semantic relations provided by the IWN model, new relations are introduced which are more suitably tailored to specific needs either scientific or pragmatic.