Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie (CVC)

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Centre for Special Language Studies and Communication (Centrum voor Vaktaal en Communicatie - CVC) belongs to the department of Applied Linguistics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Our research focus is on several issues related to the study of special language in general and terminology in particular, such as:

• application-oriented terminology analysis
• dynamic, ontologically-underpinned terminological resources (i.e. termontological resources)
• metaphors
• multilingual neology creation
• ontologies
• terminological variation
• terminology and cognition
• terminology engineering software (using natural language processing technology)
• terminology harmonisation within the EU
• understanding terminology in cognitive, linguistic and situational contexts