Towards Creating the National Terminology Resources: The Case of Mongolian Terminology

Abstract The goal of terminology work is to record and organize the meaning and usage of specialized terms and to make those available in various terminological resources like (online) termbases, specialized dictionaries, glossaries, and terminology standards, to use them in texts, translation, and specialized discourse. The present paper mainly focuses on analyzing the content of the recently launched online terminology dictionary in terms of terminology standards and aiming to seek further enhancement of it to consolidate terminology resources by creating a national term bank. Thus, the paper tries to evaluate the terminology resources in the dictionary “The Online Dictionary of Scientific Key Terms” in terms of quality assurance. As a result of the study, I have found some issues such as incorrect, incomplete, improper, inconsistent, and doublet entries occurring in the dictionary. Thus, the paper has highlighted the need to continue evaluating the terminology resources in the dictionary in terms of quality assurance. Additionally, the paper emphasized the importance of the concept-based approach and consistent modeling of terminographic components, namely the hierarchy of domain labels, as they are term identification markers instead of a flat list of domains.