Creazione di un database terminologico inglese-russo per la piattaforma Wipo Pearl: l’ambito della ceramica

The main objective of this dissertation is to illustrate the methodological process adopted for the creation a terminological database, an activity which was carried out in collaboration between the University of Bologna and WIPO. The work consisted in creating 71 terminological entries in English and Russian regarding the field of ceramics. The dissertation consists of three main parts. The first provides an overview of the main theoretical aspects of terminology, information mining, and corpus linguistics, focusing on their definitions, characteristics and application methods. The second part is the practical one, consisting in a preliminary overview of the context and nature of the collaboration and an analysis of the workflow. The third part focuses on the presentation of the final work and the problems faced during the terminological activity. The terminological entries and the conceptual maps are to be found in the appendix.