Lexical semantics for terminology : an introduction Intro Lexical Semantics for Terminology Editorial page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Table of contents List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations Typographical conventions Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Why apply lexical semantics in terminology Chapter 2. Terminology 2.1 The knowledge paradigm 2.2 Storing and accessing concepts and terms 2.3 The knowledge paradigm from a linguistic point of view Summary Further reading Chapter 3. Lexical semantics for terminology 3.1 A basic illustrative example 3.1.1 Meaning versus concept 3.1.2 Dealing with lexical units that belong to different parts of speech 3.1.3 Making (fine grained) semantic distinctions 3.1.4 Taking into consideration relations between terms 3.1.5 Considering the combinatorics of terms 3.1.6 Considering the syntactic behavior of terms 3.2 Corpus and terminology 3.3 Some relevant frameworks for terminology 3.3.1 Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology 3.3.2 Frame Semantics 3.4 Questions that lexical semantics cannot answer Summary Further reading Chapter 4. What is a term 4.1 Identification of terms 4.1.1 Relationship with a subject field 4.1.2 The importance of the application 4.1.3 Can proper nouns be terms 4.1.4 Different parts of speech 4.1.5 Single word items versus multiword expressions 4.1.6 Different names for the same thing 4.2 Different approaches to the term 4.3 Terms as lexical units 4.4 Criteria for selecting terms 4.5 Applying term identification criteria to a specific domain Summary Further reading Chapter 5. Concepts meaning and polysemy 5.1 Knowledge based approaches to linguistic content 5.1.1 Dealing with multiple concepts 5.1.2 Accounting for concepts in terminological resources.