Head: Dr Albina Auksoriūtė

Major areas of activity

• Investigation of theoretical aspects of contemporary Lithuanian terminology and history of Lithuanian terminology
• Establishing principles for Lithuanian terminology, terminography, term standardisation and codification
• Standardising terms of different areas, creating new terms, their evaluation and codification
• Educating terminologists, providing consultations for compilers of dictionaries of terms

Serial publications

Terminologija, the only journal of this type in Central and Eastern Europe, ISSN 1392-267X, editor-in-chief: Dr Jonas Klimavičius, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The annual publication is devoted to the theory and practice of terminology. In addition to research articles, the journal also publishes reviews of terminology dictionaries, annotated bibliographies of the latest editions of terminology dictionaries, reviews of terminological events.

Scientific events

International conferences on terminology

Terminology at the Beginning of the 3^rd Millennium (Terminologija III tūkstantmečio pradžioje), 2003,

Terminology of National Languages and Globalisation of (Tautinių kalbų terminologija ir globalizacija), 2006,

Lexicology and Terminology: theory, practice, history (Leksikologija ir terminologija: teorija, praktika, istorija), 2008.

International seminars for terminologists and in-service training courses

Problems and tasks for Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian terminology in the European Union (Estijos, Latvijos ir Lietuvos terminologijos problemos ir uždaviniai Europos Sąjungoje), 2004,

Standardisation and regulation of terms (Terminų norminimas ir tvarkyba), 2005,

Summer school for young terminologists of Baltic countries (Baltijos šalių jaunųjų terminologų vasaros kvalifikacinė mokykla), 2006,

Topical issues of contemporary terminology (Aktualūs šiuolaikinės terminologijos klausimai), 2007.

Applied research

During the last 50 years all major term dictionaries in Lithuania have been compiled with the assistance of terminologists of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. The ILL researchers work as members of the teams of dictionary compilers, provide consultations for the compilers, are experts of the National Term Bank of Lithuania. For further details see: Lietuvių kalbos terminų žodynai. Anotuota 1900–2005 m. bibliografijos rodyklė (Lithuanian dictionaries of terms: Annotated bibliographical index (1900-2005)) ISBN 978-9955-704-48-5 (2008), compiled by Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler, Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Keinys and A. Noreikaitė.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stasys Keinys, a researcher of ILL, is editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian (Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas). The fourth edition of the Dictionary is available online at: http://www.autoinfa.lt/webdic/, the last, sixth edition has been released on a CD (ISBN 978-9955-704-37-9, 2006).

Databases

Synonymy of Lithuanian Terms (Lietuvių kalbos terminų sinonimija), manager: Robertas Stundžinas, Junior Research Fellow, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Projects

In 2005-2006 the Centre of Terminology participated in the EC eCONTENT Project EUROTERMBANK devoted to the collection of European terminological resources and jointly implemented by terminological institutions. The Project resulted in a terminology portal in eight languages (www.eurotermbank.com). It is a European term bank linked to other resources of terms. Project manager: Dr Albina Auksoriūtė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

AVANTEKSTAS, a Dictionary of Lithuanian Terms of Literary Criticism (Lietuviškų literatūros mokslo terminų žodynas – AVANTEKSTAS), started in 2007, a joint project with the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University; manager: Asta Mickevičienė, junior research fellow, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Dictionary of Terms of Journalism (Žurnalistikos terminų žodynas), a joint project with the Faculty of Communication of Vilnius University, started in 2006, manager: Dr Albina Auksoriūtė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Scientific awards of the decade

The electronic version of the Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian (Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas) at the exhibition Infobalt was recognised as the best ITT product in science in 2004.

Assoc.Prof. Dr Stasys Keinys received the Language (Felicija Bortkevičienė’s) Award of the Commission of Preserving Lithuanian Traditions and Heritage, 2005.

Partners in Lithuania and beyond

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuanian Standards Board, State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, Institute of Information Management at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Centre for Language Technology at the University of Copenhagen, Terminology Commission of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics at the University of Tartu, Institute of Information Transmission Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Finance an Management in Bialystok, V. V. Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language, Institute of the Latvian Language at the University of Latvia, Information Processing Centre (Poland); language technology company Tildė (Latvija), MorphoLogic (Hungary) etc.

In 2003, the Institute of the Lithuanian Language concluded a bilateral agreement with the International Information Centre for Terminology. As a result, the ILL Centre of Terminology joined the INFOTERM as a full member; Dr Albina Auksoriūtė, Head of the Centre, became member of the board. In 2006 the Centre joined the European Association of Terminology (EAFT).

Contact information

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