International Conference on
Terminology and Multilingual Structured Content for Industry and Trade
–Best Practices in Research and Applications– And eCl@ss Workshop

VI Seminario de Terminología

T&SCIT 2013

Venue: EAFIT University, Medellin (Colombia) on 1 - 3 April 2013

In the age of eCommerce and other eApplications, terminological data increasingly has to be integrated – or at least made interoperable – with other kinds of structured content within enterprises as well as in the business relations between enterprises and with public administrations. This trend surfaced not too long ago and is not yet sufficiently researched neither in academia nor in industry. It is paralleled by new demands in industry for data and information quality on the one side and for more dynamic content creation and maintenance in semantic and social web environments. It is further made complex by the increasing need for multilingual data and the inclusion of non-linguistic representations in all kinds of content.

T&SCIT 2013 is aiming at bringing practitioners effectively using structured content in industry and trade together with researchers who study terminology and other kinds of language and content resources under the aspect of content integration and content interoperability in various eApplications, such as eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning, eGovernment etc. Terminology as a scientific discipline is a transactional field to areas such as information and communication sciences, specialized communication, knowledge organization, logic, applied linguistics, among others. Its approach is characterized from the outset by multilingual and multimodal concept representations – which is commonly accepted today e.g. in the fields of the language industry.
The above-mentioned methodologically related fields should strive to cooperate in developing solutions with respect to making content more multi-functional, multilingual, re-usable, re-purposable, automatically evaluable (in terms of quality, reliability, traceability of sources, …). Thus they can prove their viability for solving actual needs of industry and society at large with respect to the role of structured content for the localization of products and services, user interface design for consumer electronics etc. The language industry has already developed many approaches in this direction. However,


Whereas localization needs 15 years ago centered on the product and documentation, now they extend to mobile advertising, customer care, support documents, educational materials, eCommerce assets, social media, community-generated content and beyond. Within a limited budget and selection of languages, the customer reserves publication quality for content that contributes to profit (advertisements and collateral) and information quality for content of lower value (The Future of Localization - A Varied Spectrum of Service Models. Lionbridge, 2009)


Globalization forces Latin American countries such as Colombia re-consider communication, documentation and structured content under a localization and internationalization perspective – not least to avoid the risk of serious losses due to errors which can be avoided for instance by applying pertinent international standards. We are pleased to invite you to contribute to T&SCIT 2013 by proposing topics, papers and workshops under the following topics:

(1) Terminology and Other Kinds of Multilingual Structured Content in Industry and Trade
- overcoming language and cultural barriers to foreign markets

(2) Best Practice Applications of Content Interoperability
- cost benefits of effectively using content within the enterprise and in its external relations

(3) Standardization and certification concerning structured content resources supporting international trade
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(4) State-of-the-art of Research on Terminology and Other Language and Content Resources
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(5) Research practices in Colombia and Abroad/ Teaching Methods in Terminology
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(6) Networking for Advancing Research and Development
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- Call for papers: informative abstracts (1-2 pages) until 2013-02-15
- Acceptance of papers until 2013-03-01
- Final Conference Program: 2013-03-15