Specialised Communication

Beside the traditional projects dedicated to legal and administrative terminology in Italian and German, the research focus on "Specialised Communication" comprises new fields and languages, thus including the Ladin language as well as other languages of the Alpine arc (French and Slovene) and terminology work on environment and spatial planning. The experience gathered with the multilingual terminology work is currently applied to some specific sectors, such as university law, to the production of reference works on legal terminology and also a post-bachelor course on all issues related to translation.

Such research is complemented by the resources offered by computational linguistics, especially corpus linguistics, which contributes with new methods of collection and analysis of texts, terminology extraction and concept representation.

• bistro
  (Information System for Legal Terminology)
• DIGIT
  (multilingual terminology collections) 
• Terkom
  (secretariat of the Terminology Commission)
• Intra III
  (course in technical writing and computer aided translation)
• LexALP (concluded)
  (terminology harmonisation in the four languages of the Alpine Convention)
• Termlad II (concluded)
  (Ladin legal and administrative terminology)
• Uniterm II (concluded)
  (dictionariy for university law in Italy and Austria)

The institute's research projects also focus on:

Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Language Technologies

The Institute also offers different services:

consulting, teaching, cooperation

last update 23.9.2008