Federica Vezzani

Federica Vezzani
  • PhD in Terminology
  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD/b) at University of Padua

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University of Padua
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  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD/b)

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Terminology standardization reflects two different aspects involving the meaning of terms and the structure of terminological resources. In this paper, we focus on the structural aspect of standardization and we present the work of re-modeling TriMED, a multilingual terminological database conceived to support multi-register medical communication....
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Cet ouvrage se consacre à la notion de terminologie numérique considérée comme une approche de la discipline impliquant la représentation numérique d’informations conceptuelles et linguistiques d’un domaine spécifique. L’objectif est l’illustration des étapes de conception et d’implémentation de base de données terminologiques multilingues permetta...
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Les outils issus de la linguistique de corpus et de la terminographie orientée traduction, peuvent utilement intégrer une méthode d’analyse visant à cerner le potentiel connotatif du vocabulaire médical. En particulier, nous les appliquerons au vocabulaire somatique présent dans les textes médicaux spécialisés ou vulgarisés relevant du domaine de l...
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Semic analysis is a linguistic technique aimed at methodically factorizing the meaning of terms into a collection of minimum non-decomposable atoms of meaning. In this study, we propose a methodology targeted at enhancing the systematicity of semic analysis of medical terminology in order to increase the quality of the creation of the set of atoms...
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Different solutions are offered today for modelling multilingual terminological data. In this article, we focus on the description of two approaches: on the one hand, the model proposed in the context of ISO TC 37/SC 3, based on the adoption of the Terminological Markup Framework/TermBase eXchange standards; on the other hand, the ‘Lemon’ model and...
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Le quatrième colloque international sur « La terminologie numérique multilingue aujourd'hui. Conception, formats de représentation et systèmes de gestion » vise à rassembler les spécialistes des disciplines de la terminologie, de la terminographie, de la terminologie computationnelle, de la linguistique computationnelle, du TALN, afin de partager d...
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Cette étude explore la notion de référent en terminologie, centré autour du Trouble Dysmorphique Corporel (TDC). Nous nous intéressons à la relation entre objet, concept, référent et terme, mettant en évidence leur interdépendance et leur impact sur la perception de cette pathologie. À l’aide d’un questionnaire, nous analysons les variantes dénomin...
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The fourth international conference on "Multilingual Digital Terminology Today. Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems" (MDTT) 2025 aims to bring together specialists in the disciplines of terminology, terminography, computational terminology, specialized lexicography, computational linguistics, NLP, in order to share methodological...
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Le quatrième colloque international sur « La terminologie numérique multilingue aujourd'hui. Conception, formats de représentation et systèmes de gestion » vise à rassembler les spécialistes des disciplines de la terminologie, de la terminographie, de la terminologie computationnelle, de la linguistique computationnelle, du TALN, afin de partager d...
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This Special Issue is dedicated to the 2nd International Conference on “Multilingual digital terminology today: Design, representation formats, and management systems” (MDTT 2023) (Di Nunzio et al [...]
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Representing specialized knowledge in the medical domain implies considering the dynamism of scientific and technological progress. The advancement of knowledge on diseases goes hand in hand with the reconceptualization processes undertaken by experts with consequent conceptual evolutions and possible variations of the terms used to designate medic...
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Everyone agrees on the importance of objective scientific information. However, relevant scientific documents tend to be inherently difficult to find and understand either because of intricate terminology or the potential absence of prior knowledge among their readers. Can we improve accessibility for everyone? This paper introduces the SimpleText...
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PROLONGATION Appel à contributions - Numéro thématique no 16 (2025) « La didactique de la terminologie dans l’espace universitaire francophone : approches innovantes et outillées » Nouvelle date limite : 5/02/2024
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The ‘FAIR terminology’ paradigm is the first initiative that aims to establish a strong interrelation between the FAIR ( F indability, A ccessibility, I nteroperability, and R eusability) principles, promoted at the European level to foster the Open Science movement, and the specifications advocated in the framework of ISO TC 37/SC 3 about the mana...
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2e rappel Appel à contributions Numéro thématique Syn-Thèses (16 : 2025) « La didactique de la terminologie dans l'espace universitaire francophone: approches innovantes et outillées » Date limite d’envoi des résumés : 15/01/2024 Les résumés de 500 mots accompagnés d’un cv de 150 mots sont à adresser à Elpida Loupaki (eloupaki@frl.auth.gr) et Feder...
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Ce numéro thématique sera l’occasion d’examiner plusieurs questions majeures sur : - Les approches pédagogiques de la terminologie dans les différents cursus universitaires ; - Les méthodes innovantes d’enseignement de la terminologie ; - Les projets et/ ou outils utilisés en didactique de la terminologie ; - L’élaboration de matériaux didactiques....
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The CLEF eHealth Technology Assisted Reviews (TAR) in Empirical Medicine Tasks focused on evaluating the effectiveness of various technology-assisted review systems in assisting healthcare professionals in retrieving relevant information from vast amounts of medical literature. It ran for three years, from 2017 until 2019, giving the opportunity to...
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Given the highly binding nature of disarmament treaties, the language used to convey the provisions in international matters must in no case generate any form of semantic ambiguity. This study examines the terminology of disarmament and aims to achieve a triple objective. First, we present a general translation methodology based on the integration...
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In this paper, we describe the methodology and experimental analysis of a twofold strategy for the retrieval of medical relevant information: a ranking fusion and a query reformulation approach. In particular, the query reformulation approach is based on the idea that a query is composed of two parts: the primary term and the secondary term of the...
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This paper aims to highlight the potential of a terminological analysis approach to literary texts. We present a work of retro-digitization and terminological study of a corpus of letters exchanged between Proust and his mother. The identified medical terminolog y constitutes the object of investigation to illustrate how specialized lexical units e...
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Cet article porte sur une analyse contrastive multi-niveaux des technologies à la base de TBX et de Ontolex-lemon afin de modéliser les données terminologiques multilingues au sein de ressources terminologiques. 1. Résumé étendu Le développement de ressources terminologiques et leur maintenance optimale sont des activités laborieuses et chronophage...
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In this paper, we propose the description of a very recent interdisciplinary project aiming at analysing both the conceptual and linguistic dimensions of human rights terminology. This analysis will result in the form of a new knowledge-based multilingual terminological resource which is designed in order to meet the FAIR principles for Open Scienc...
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The optimal organization of terminological (meta) data is an indispensable practice in the design and implementation of language resources. In this paper, we describe a methodology for the structural standardization of terminological resources based on the application of de jure standards developed by the ISO TC 37/SC 3 in order to ensure the FAIRn...
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La traduction médicale nécessite, comme tous les processus de traduction spécialisée, une étude systématique de la terminologie utilisée pour véhiculer les messages technico-scientifiques. Cet article porte sur la description d’un nouveau modèle de fiche terminologique spécifiquement conçu et formulé pour l'implémentation de la ressource terminolog...
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Questo studio si prefigge l'obiettivo di esaminare, attraverso un caso di studio francese-italiano, la fraseologia dei trattati internazionali di disarmo, in un'ottica di complementarità con un'analisi precedentemente approfondita sulla terminologia di questo dominio. L'efficacia giuridica di questi strumenti convenzionali, nonché gli sforzi compiu...
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In this paper, we want to speculate about the possibility to model all the currently known/proposed approaches to terminology into a single schema. We will use the Entity-Relationship (ER) diagram as our tool for the conceptual data model of the problem and to express the associations between the objects of the study. We will analyse the onomasiolo...
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Cette étude vise la description d'un nouveau produit linguistique développé en tant que support de la pratique pédagogique et de la professionnalisation en traduction spécialisée. La ressource, dénommée FAIRterm, est configurée comme une collection de fiches terminologiques multilingues visant à prendre en charge le processus de décodage et de tran...
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The paper describes the outlines of an ongoing research project on the language of economics through history. At the same time, it is intended as a call for expressions of interest on an international network on the economics lexicon (LEXECON)
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In this paper, we discuss the benefits of this approach in terminology management by presenting a methodology for the preservation of multilingual terminological records and the practice of standardization as a fundamental step towards reusability. We present a case study to show the effectiveness of this methodology on an obsolete Website containi...
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Semic analysis is a linguistic technique aimed at capturing the essential specificities of terms meaning through the identification of minimum semantic units. This procedure is functional for the achievement of an in-depth comprehension of technical terminology and the acquisition of a specialised conceptual knowledge. In this paper, we focus on se...
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The process of standardization plays an important role in the management of terminological resources. In this context, we present the work of re-modeling an existing multilingual terminological database for the medical domain, named TriMED. This resource was conceived in order to tackle some problems related to the complexity of medical terminology...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an esteemed and highly experienced physician and much of his medical knowledge spreads into his literary works. In this paper, we propose to study the medical terminology in the stories of Sherlock Holmes through a mixedmethod of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Our approach is based on 1) the automatic extraction o...
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In this paper, we present a methodology for the development of a new eHealth resource in the context of Computational Terminology. This resource, named TriMED, is a digital library of terminological records designed to satisfy the information needs of different categories of users within the healthcare field: patients, language professionals and ph...
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In this paper, we focus on the teaching of specialised translation and, in particular, on the preliminary phase of the translation process which is based on a broad and systematic work on the terminology of the micro-language considered. We present a new model of bilingual terminological record, as a digital tool supporting the process of translati...
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Dans cette étude, nous proposons une perspective neuve du concept de poids des termes techniques en nous concentrant sur la notion de « technicité » comme propriété sémantique de l’unité linguistique elle-même. L’idée de base est que la valeur de technicité d’un terme est inversement proportionnelle à sa nature polysémique. Nous formalisons la form...
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Cette étude vise à réfléchir aux critères de normalisation de certaines formes phraséologiques standardisées dans la terminologie médicale. Nous nous proposons d’analyser les cas terminologiques, à partir d’un corpus de termes en langue italienne extraits de documents concernant les protocoles de traitement du cancer du sein, qui ne respectent pas...
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This contribution proposes to provide an overview of the syntactic and semantic behavior of medical terms in the literary works of Conan Doyle. The object of study is the analysis of the scientific terms in the stories of Sherlock Holmes through the model of terminological record set out in a multilingual terminological database (TriMED) implemente...
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Supervised machine learning algorithms require a set of labelled examples to be trained; however, the labelling process is a costly and time consuming task which is carried out by experts of the domain who label the dataset by means of an iterative process to filter out non-relevant objects of the dataset. In this paper, we describe a set of experi...
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Tre categorie di persone si confrontano con la complessità del linguaggio medico, ciascuna con le proprie esigenze di rimedio: medici, traduttori tecnico scientifici e pazienti. Il presente lavoro propone di elaborare uno strumento che contribuisca a porre rimedio all'opacità che caratterizza la comunicazione in ambito medico tra i suoi vari attori...
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Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) systems are essential to minimize the effort of the user during the search and retrieval of relevant documents for a specific information need. In this paper , we present a failure analysis based on terminological and linguistic aspects of a TAR system for systematic medical reviews. In particular, we analyze the re...
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Three precise categories of people are confronted with the complexity of medical language: physicians, patients and scientific translators. The purpose of this work is to develop a methodology for the implementation of a terminological tool that contributes to solve problems related to the opacity that characterizes communication in the medical fie...
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On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-­‐it 2018). This edition of the conference is held in Torino. The conference is locally organised by the University of Torino and hosted into its prestigious main lecture hall “Cavallerizza Reale”. The CLiC-­‐it conference seri...
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La collana pubblica gli atti del convegno annuale di Linguistica Computazionale (CLiC-it), che ha lo scopo di costituire un luogo di discussione di riferimento nel campo delle ricerce sulla linguistica computazionale. Gli atti includono interventi sul trattamento automatico della lingua, comprendenti le riflessioni teoriche e metodologiche sul tema...

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