Project: FIN-CLARIAH
Grant agreement: Academy of Finland no. 358720
Start date: 01-01-2024
Duration: 24 months
WP 2.4: Report on Term definition discovery procedures
Date of reporting: 16-09-2024
Report author: Harri Kettunen (UHEL)
Contributors: Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö (UHEL)
Deliverable location: The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences – Tieteen termipankki
Since the start of 2024, 309 new concept pages (terminology articles) have been created and updates have been made on 1,078 concepts to the database of the Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences (HTB). New concept pages have been created in the following fields: Art History, Educational Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Linguistics, Martial Arts Studies, Mesoamerican Studies, Nutritional Sciences, Open Science, Philosophy, and Theology. The full amount of concept pages as of September 16, 2023, is 45,436.
Furthermore, updates have been made to the database on 1,078 concept pages in the following fields: Aesthetics, Biology, Botany, Educational Sciences, Folklore, Geology, History, Indigenous Studies, Language Technology, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Martial Arts Studies, Open Science, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Translation Studies, and Veterinary Medicine.
In addition, the fields of Anthropology, Studies, Gender Studies, Mathematics, and Urban Studies are working offline until there is a critical mass of terminology to be published at the HTB. Furthermore, terminology work has been agreed upon to be carried out in the following fields: Arctic Research, Asian Studies, Geography, Military Sciences, and Physiology. A multidisciplinary group has also been established for meta scientific terminology of transdisciplinarity.
In 2024, we have also started to develop semi-automated processes for detecting terms and their relevant definition contexts in valid academic text genre corpora such as E-thesis in cooperation with Antti Kanner and Jussi Piitulainen (UHEL).
Furthermore, HTB has started cooperation with Aalto University on the terminology of the fields of studies at Aalto. These will include the following, representing all the disciplines at the Aalto University: Civil Engineering, Energy Technology, Geoinformatics, Mechanical Engineering, Real Estate Economics, Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering, Water and Environmental Engineering, Accounting, Business Law, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Systems Science, International Business, Logistics, Management Science, Marketing, Organization and Management, Organizational Communication, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Processing of Materials, Materials Science, Bioproduct Technology, Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics, Systems and Operations Research, Engineering Physics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering and Management, Automation and Control Engineering, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Electronic and Digital Systems, Biosensing and Bioelectronics, Electrical Power and Energy Engineering, Electronics, Photonics and Nanotechnology, Radio Science and Engineering, Space Science and Technology, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Acoustics and Speech Technology, Communications Engineering and Networking Technology, Interactive Systems, Art Education, Contemporary Art, New Media, Photography, Visual Communication Design, Visual Culture, Design, Film and Television, Costume Design, Architecture, and Landscape and Urbanism. HTB will coordinate a meeting with the Doctoral Schools of the Aalto University on October 3rd, 2024, to plan the implementation of terminology work for the future.
HTB has also been working in close cooperation with the Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus) on the names of languages of the world. During the first half of 2024 we have had four meetings with Kotus (Elina Wihuri and Ulla Onkamo), along with the consultant of the project, Lyle Campbell (Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa).
The coordinator of the HTB, in cooperation with the Teachers’ Academy of the University of Helsinki, organized a session on January 29th titled “Kansalliskielten asema korkeakouluopetuksessa” (“The role of national languages in higher education”), featuring the following presenters: Johanna Komppa (Senior University Lecturer of Finnish Language, UHEL), Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö (Professor of Finnish Language, UHEL), Janne Saarikivi (part-time professor of Saami language, University of Tromsø), Mikko Laitinen (Professor of English Language, University of Eastern Finland), and Sirpa Leppänen (Emerita Professor of English Language, University of Jyväskylä).
HTB has also had presentations at the following conferences, seminars, and other events:
Publications:
Kettunen, Harri (2024). Monitieteisyydestä tieteidenvälisyyteen: Joukkoistaminen Tieteen termipankin terminologiatyössä. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti 2024: 61: 448–450.
Kettunen, Harri & Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö (2024) Vetenskapstermbanken i Finland i samhällets tjänst. Språk i Norden / Sprog i Norden 2024. https://tidsskrift.dk/sin/article/view/144160
FIN-CLARIAH project has received funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU instrument and is funded by the Academy of Finland under grant number 358720.
