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1st International Conference on “Multilingual digital
terminology today. Design, representation formats
and management systems”⋆
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzioa , Geneviève Henrotb , Maria Teresa Musacchiob and
Federica Vezzanib
a
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
b
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padua, Italy
Foreword to the MDTT 2022 Proceedings
The Multilingual Digital Terminology Today (MDTT) international conference is a new annual
event for researchers on Digital Terminology (DT), and related topics, which aims to bring
together specialists in the disciplines of terminology, terminography, computational termi-
nology, computational linguistics, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), in order to share
methodological reflections on design approaches, representation formats and management
systems of the digital terminology collected in multilingual terminological resources.
The idea of organizing a conference on Digital Terminology stems from the desire to bring out
the interdisciplinary component that characterizes this research area. Working in terminology
nowadays means not only exploring the conceptual and linguistic dimensions of specialized
knowledge, but also investigating on how to structure and represent this information in a digital
ecosystem in order to guarantee its optimal reuse at the basis of the advancement of scientific
research.
MDTT sets itself as an international component of a Digital Terminology panorama that
comprehends long-standing international and national events on terminology, among others:
European Association for Terminology (EAFT) summit (https://www.eaft-aet.net/), Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) (http://www.elra.info/en/lrec/) , Terminology &
Ontology: Theories and applications (TOTh) (http://toth.condillac.org/), Rete panlatina di termi-
nologia (REALITER) (http://www.realiter.net/), Réseau Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction
(LTT) (https://www.reseau-ltt.net/), and Associazione Italiana per la Terminologia (Ass.I.Term)
(http://www.assiterm91.it/).
In particular, the first edition of this event is organized around four main research topics.
The first topic analyzes how much the information needs of the identified user influence the
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design and implementation of a new terminological resource. For example, how the educational,
professional, and informational requirements affect the implemented resource. The second topic
is devoted to the evaluation of structural resource design approaches. In particular, we want to
examine, from an analytical perspective, the models and paradigms for the optimal design of
terminological data collections in order to respond to the principles of Linguistic Linked Open
Data (LLOD), and Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability (FAIR) data. The third
topic proposes a reflection on the formats for the optimal representation of terminological data
and metadata in the light of the design approach adopted. In particular, the contributions include
case studies of resources implemented according to formats such as TBX (TermBase eXchange),
RDF (Resource Description Framework), SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), OWL
(Web Ontology Language). The fourth topic aims to create a dialogue between contributions that
focus on the validation of the ergonomics of specific terminological resources. In particular, we
reflect on the best approaches to display digital terminological data and methods for evaluating
the functionalities offered to the user.
In accordance with the Open Science principles, MDTT adopts a free and open access
publication scheme through the CEUR Workshop Proceedings system (CEUR-WS.org). The
submitted papers went through a double-blind review process that required at least two reviews
by members of the international scientific committee paper. We accepted eighteen short papers
(which is the standard format of the conference). Many papers were authored by Italian, Spanish
and French researchers, but in this first edition we were very happy to welcome authors also
from Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Mongolia, Portugal, South Africa,
Switzerland, and United States.
The two keynote speakers were Prof. Rute Costa (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
with title “Transitions en Terminologie” about the evolution of terminology throughout the
20th and 21st centuries, and Prof. Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy) with
title “Ten Years of BabelNet and Beyond” about the evolution of the lexical-semantic knowledge
resource that helps to scale tasks and applications to hundreds of languages.
The first edition of the MDTT conference was organized at the University of Padua with the
patronage of the University itself (https://www.unipd.it/), and the two involved Departments,
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari (https://www.disll.unipd.it/) and Dipartimento di
Ingegneria dell’Informazione (https://www.dei.unipd.it/). In addition, we also had the patronage
of the Associazione Italiana per la Terminologia (Ass.I.Term) (http://www.assiterm91.it) and the
Centro di documentazione e di Ricerca per la Didattica della Lingua Francese nell’Università
Italiana (Do.Ri.F.) (https://www.dorif.it/). We were also very happy to receive a sponsorship
from two Horizon 2020 projects, the Examode Horizon 2020 EU Project (https://www.examode.
eu/) and the MICOLL ERC Consolidator Grant project (https://www.micoll-erc.eu/), and the
Associazione Italiana per la Comunicazione Tecnica (COM&TEC) (https://www.comtec-italia.
org).
June 2022
The Organizing Committee