Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Quality Management in Terminology

Code

722131069

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Linguística

Credits

10

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. Identify organizaton needs of specialised information according to specific objectives.
2. Improve research techniques and selection of specialised information.
3. Learn to manage terminology and textual data.
4. Understand the relationship between Terminology and Quality.
5. Apply quality criteria in Terminology
6. Reflect about validation methodologies.

Prerequisites

Not applicable

Subject matter

1. The Terminologist profile.
2. From data to specialised information.
3. Terminology management.
4. Quality: principles and definitions.
4.1. Normative perspective: ISO 9000
5. Terminology processes.
5.1. Processes of creation and content management.
5.2. Validation processes.
6. Terminologist-expert relationship.
7. Quality control applied to linguistic and terminological content.

Bibliography

- AMARAL, L.; OLIVEIRA, J. (1999) - O papel da qualidade da informacao nos sistemas de informacao, in “Conferencia Especializada em Sistemas E Tecnologias de Informacao”, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisboa.
- ANTONIO, N. SANTOS ; TEIXEIRA, A. (2007) – Gestao da Qualidade. De Deming ao
modelo de excelencia da EFQM, Ed. Silabo, Lisboa.
- BUDIN, G. and WRIGHT, S-H. (1997) - Handbook of Terminology Management Vol. 1.
Basic Aspects of Terminology Management. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- BUDIN, G. and WRIGHT, S-H. (2001) - Handbook of Terminology Management Vol. 2.
Application-Oriented Terminology Management. Amsterdam:Benjamins.
- SILVA, R. (2014) - Gestão de Terminologia pela Qualidade, Tese de Doutoramento, FCSH / Universidade Nova de LIsboa.
- EN ISO 9000:2005 - Sistemas de gestao da qualidade. Fundamentos e Vocabulario.
2005.
- APCER Guia interpretativo NP EN 9001:2008 - Sistemas de Gestao da Qualidade.
Requisitos.

Teaching method

nteractive classes targeted at the implementation of individual or group projects.
Presentation and discussion of individual projects.
Discussion of several topics.
Tutorial sessions will provide students with regular and personalised guidance in the several topics.
In class teaching

Evaluation method

Assessment will rely on the following items:
-Individual research project – 80%
-Attendance -20%

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