Organizers: Rossella Resi, Marita Kristiansen
December 16, 2025
9:15–11:30 CET
https://webconference.uibk.ac.at/rooms/37g-mc3-pmo

9:15- 9:30 Rossella Resi & Marita Kristiansen// Brief Introduction and future agenda for Task 2.7

9:30-10:30 Building and maintaining concepts with TermCatch and TermAlign

Speakers:

• Mikael Lundahl – CEO and senior solution architect
• Max Tremczyk – CTO and technical responsible for TermCatch
• Lars Edholm – Chief Services Officer and technical responsible for TermAlign at Fodina Language Technology
  • Abstract: TermCatch and TermAlign perform term extraction, but they are not just term extraction tools. The goal is to assist terminologists in building new concepts and updating existing concepts with new information. With AI support, the tools extract terms, group synonyms into clusters, add metadata and prepare concepts for review and approval. Using API integrations, we fetch the currently approved concepts from master term databases like Kaleidoscope Quickterm and then return new and updated concepts.

10:30-11:30 Methodology for continuous automated neology harvesting in newstexts and specialised corpora
Speaker:

• Anje Müller Gjesdal, associate professor, Østfold University College
  • Abstract: The nature and environment subject fields are subject to a considerable degree of lexical innovation, due to their interdisciplinary and transnational nature and societal interest. Mapping neology in these domains is interesting to understand conceptual developments and to enable language planning initiatives. This talk will present results from the Changing Nature project, where we applied a method for automated neology detection to harvest neologisms across a 20 years period and across diKerent specialised corpora and genres. Further, we will describe the distribution of thematic categories (Climate, Human health, etc.) across corpora, as well as the spread of neologisms from specialised corpora to the wider public sphere. Finally, we assess the advantages and drawbacks of this approach to mapping neology in the nature and environment subject fields.