Ie Special Issue Papers and Summaries of KOTA'91 ! Conference on Knowledge Organization and Term Analysis Varna, Bulgaria Sept.16-18, 1991 International Classification VOI.19(1992)NO.2 UDC 025.4+168+001.4(05) INTERNATIONAL Contents CLASSIFICATION Devoted to ConceptTheory, Systematic Terminology, and Organization of Knowledge The journal is the organ of the INTERNATIONAL Editorial SOCIETY FOR KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION (General Secretariat: Woogstr. 36a, D-60oo Frankfurt 50) Knowledge Organization and Term Analysis ........................................ 63 Editors Dr.lngetraut DAHLBERG (Editor-in-Chief), Papers and Summaries of KOTA'91 Woogstr.36a, D-6000 Frankfurt 50 Conference on Knowledge Organization and Term Analysis, DLRobert FUGMANN, Alte Poststr.13, 0-6270 Idstein Varna, Sept.16·18, 1991 Prof.Jean M.PERREAULT, The Library, Univ. of Alaba­ ma at Huntsville. P.O.Box26oo, HUntsviHe,AL35807, USA Dahlberg, I.: Knowledge organization and tennmology: Philosophical and Prof.Daniel Benedikt�son (Book Review Editor), Univer­ linguistic bases .... ............ .... .................... ........................ 65 sity of Iceland, Ubr. & Inform.Science Studies, Oddi 101, Iyer, H.: Semantic interpretation of conjuncts: Boolean transformations .... 72 Reykjavik, Iceland Petrov, P.: "Through the Looking-Glass" as seen through organizing glasses74 Consulting Editors ProLKenneth BAKEWELL, Liverpool Polytechnic, Cen­ Christova, S.: From the inner form of a term towards its aesthetic meaning 78 ter for Inform. and Library Studies, 79 Tithebam Street, Li­ verpool, 12 2ER, U.K Luchesar, A.: Parameters of disbelief .. .. ............... 79 Markov, S.: Borders of philosophical terminology 80 Prof.Pauline A.COCHRANE, 1719 Gosnell Road, Ivanova, 1.: Properties and terms denoting properties. ..................... 81 Apt.301, Vienna, VA 12182, USA Kolkovska, S.B.: Detennination of the semantic category 'processes' 82 Mme.Nathalie DUSOULIER, lnst.de 1'lnform.Science et Popova, M.: Informativeness of a term .... " .................. .. ........... 83 Techn.. Chateau de Montet,F-54S00 Vandoeuvre, Nancy Maev, St.: The tenn - organized and organizing knowledge ......... 84 Mr.Douglas FOSKETT, 1, Dale Side, Gerrards Cross, Atanasov, A., Petrov, P.: Spachev, N., Triffonov, S.: Toward knowledge Bucks. SL9 7JF, U.K organizing SENSUS ....... ..... ... .. ................ .... ............... .... .................. 84 Chongarova, I.: Organization of lexicographic knowledge in dictionaries MrJens B.FRIIS-HANSEN, Hoesterkoebvej 7, DK-2970 Hoersholm, Denmark of a new type ............... ......... ........ ......... ....... 85 Dimitrova, G.: Thesaurus semiotics and thesaurus lexicography 86 MrAlan GILCHRIST, 38 Ship Street, Brighton BNIIAB, Christova, A. T.: Therm as germ - an apology of a new term 87 U.K ••LITH Glossary ... ................. ................ 88 Prof.Wilfried OODERT, FHBD, Claudiusstr.l, 0-5000 Alexiev, B.: The conceptual structure of terms as the tertium K61n comparationis in constrastive tenninoiogy ........ ............... ............... 91 Dr.MA.GOPINAlli, DRTC, Indian Stati�tical lost., 8th Taneva,N., Nikoiova, I.: Comparative evaluation of some basic GennaTh Mile,Mysore Road, R.V.College P.O., Bangalore-560059, India and Bulgarian tenns as knowledge organizers .... ... .................... .. .............. 93 Petkova, Y.: Interlingual transfonnations in loan-translation of English Prof.Eric de GROLIER, ISSC, I, rue Miollis, F-75015 three-element maritime tenns ............... ............................. ................... 94 Paris, France Staychev, V.: Method for compressing the process of decision making in Prof.Krishan KUMAR, Dept.of Libr.& Inform.Sci., a set-time intetval ............. ............................................................ 95 Univ.of Delhi, Delhi-lIO 007, India Vassileva, S., Zlateva, T.: Conceptual information in scientific texts and in Prof.Yukio NAKAMURA, 14-8, Nisikata-l, Bunkyo-ku, belles-lettres .. .......... ......................... ........................ 97 TokyO 113, Japan Zlateva, T.: Types of infonnation-scientific texts and their research tools Mr.Peter PAULSON, Forest Press OCLC, 85 Watervliet and procedures ... ............. ....... ...................................................... 98 Ave., Albany, 12206, USA Andonov, Y.: Some aspects of the specificity of vocabulary and NY, tenninology exercises .. ................. ..... .. ... .. ................................... 99 Prof.Dr.Roy RADA, Dept. of Computer Science, Univer­ Pavlova, M., Kirova, M., Lazarov, D.: On concepts as objects of sityof Liverpool, Liverpool 1.,69 3BX, U.K control ... .......... ..... .............. ...... ............................................. ... ................. 100 Drs.Gerhard J.A.RlESTHUIS, UniversitetsbibJiotheek, Singel 425, NL-1012 WP Amsterdam, Netherlands Reports and Communications 100 Mr.LoIi ROLLING, CEC, DirXm,lean-Monnet Centre, Kirchberg, LU-Luxembourg 105 ISKO News 9 Dr.Winfried SCHMITZ-ESSER, Oderfelderstr.13, D- 2000 Hamburg 13 Book Reviews Prof.Dr.Eugeniusz SeIBOR, lINTE, Broniewskigo 83- 157, PL-01-876 Warszawa, Poland Ungvary, R.(Ed.): OSZTAURUSZ. A universal 'classthesaurus' for Hungarian periodical literature (1. Wormell) ............. .............. ..... ... .................. ................. 106 Dr.Otto SECHSER, In der Ey 37, CH-8047 Zurich Prof.Dr.Dagobert SOERGEL, College of Libr.& American Society of Indexers: Indexing tradition and innovation. Proc.22nd Inform.Serv., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ............ .. ........... ... 20742, USA Ann.Conf.Chicago 1990 (R.Fugmann) . ... ................ 106 Dr.Edouard SUKIASYAN, Russian State Library, Pr.K.alinina 3, Moskva 10100, Russia Classification Literature 19(1992)No.2 ............................................ 109 Prof.Nancy WILLIAMSON, Fac.ofLibr.& Inform.Sci., 140 St.George Str., Toronto MSS 1AI, Canada UDC 025.4+ 168+001.4(05) INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION Devoted to Concept Theory, Systematic Terminology, and Organization of Knowledge Editors: Dr.I.Dahlberg, Frankfurt; Dr.R.Fugmann, Idstein, Prof.J,M,Perreault, Huntsville, AL, USA. 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Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany 1992 by Druckerei H.Guntrum II KG. PF 180, 0-6408 Schlitz/Hessen. Contents page VoI.19(1992)No.2 Dahlberg,I.: Knowledge organization and terminology: Phi· LuchesarAndreev: Parameters of disbelief. losophical and linguistic bases. InLClassif. 19(1992)No.2, p. 79 Int.Classif.19(1992)No.2, p.65·71, 30 refs. The paper attempts to promote the idea that scientific or The contributions of philosophy to the subject fields Knowled­ scholarly disbelief has no quantitative measure (limits). It is a ge Organizalion and Terminology are explored and exempli­ stage of the method concerningresearch and expression. Scien­ fied. Special emphasis was laid on the philosophical fields of tific or scholarly disbelief is a precondition for a critical way of Logic, Theory of Science, Epistemology, OntOlogy, Phenome­ thinking, for tolerance toward people in different opinions, and nology, Alethiology, and Metaphysics. Existing attempts are for overcoming dogmatism and relativity. (Author) mentioned which assist in the recognition and application of perti nent pri nci pies and methods by terminological standards as well as the possible and necessary work towards reconciliation Markov, S.: Borders of philosophical terminology. of the approaches of the two subject fields for the sake of an InLClassif. 19(1992)No.2, p. 80 improved access to the knowledge of mankind. (Author) Philosophical terms define order and chaos in every cultural expression. In that sense philosophy is a universal metalangua­ ge. As self-reflection, philosophy adds to logical space meta­ Iyer, H.: Sem&ntic interpretation of conjuncts: Boolean phorical word space, i.e. it adds contextual dialogical openness transformations. in each particular language. (Author) Int.Classif. 19(1992)No.2, p. 72-76, 5 refs. This paper reports on an exploratory study of the semantic Ivanova, Properties and terms denoting properties. interpretation of conjuncts and their translation into Boolean J.: Int.Classif. 19(1992)No.2, p. 81 search statements, using dictionary definitions. Rules were From a philosophicalpoint of view the relationship between the formulated based on syntactic and semantic analysis of the philosophical category "property" and all terms employed for conjunctive phrases occurring in 160 natural language state­ naming properties is studied as a premise for a more thorough ments (NLS) of users information needs. This includes a set of study