DiCoEnviro, a Multilingual Terminological Resource on the Environment: The Brazilian Portuguese Experience

• Flávia Cristina Cruz Lamberti Arraes ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de Brasília

     Universidade de Brasília

     Brasil

     
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  • DiCoEnviro is a multilingual terminological resource that contains terms in the field of the environment in different languages, i.e. French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and more recently Chinese. The present paper focuses on the Portuguese version of the resource in order to show how the terminological work has been developed particularly with the use of a Brazilian Portuguese corpus. More specifically the paper presents how DiCoEnviro i) represents the specialized meaning of the terms, ii) represents terminological structures within the environmental domain, and iii) uses lexical functions to establish connections between the terms within a lexical relation. The results show a selection of terms that belong to the environmental domain in Portuguese, particularly to deforestation, their analysis, linguistic description and representation of the most preferred lexical relations the terms establish among themselves. Terms and terminological relations for Portuguese in DiCoEnviro are under construction and our purpose is to increase the number of entries and relations that represent deforestation, as well as to expand the corpus to include other topics associated with the environment.