Should Terminology Principles be re-examined?
  Operationalization of terminology for IT applications has revived the
Wusterian approach. The conceptual dimension once more prevails after taking
back seat to specialised lexicography. This is demonstrated by the emergence of
ontology in terminology. While the Terminology Principles as defined in Felber
manual and the ISO standards remain at the core of traditional terminology,
their computational implementation raises some issues. In this article, while
reiterating their importance, we will be re-examining these Principles from a
dual perspective: that of logic in the mathematical sense of the term and that
of epistemology as in the theory of knowledge. We will thus be clarifying and
describing some of them so as to take into account advances in knowledge
engineering (ontology) and formal systems (logic). The notion of
ontoterminology, terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology,
results from this approach.
