ABSTRACT
A widely accepted description of terminology is that it refers to “the study of and field of activity concerned with the collection, description, processing and presentation of terms that is lexical items belonging to specialised areas of usage of one or more languages”. Terminology work, sometimes known as applied terminology or terminography, refers to activities associated with identifying and describing concept-term units in a specialized field. Technology has been a driving force behind what can be considered as the greatest methodological revolution witnessed to date in terminology: the adoption of a corpus-based approach. Historically, a principal goal of terminology was to achieve univocity, or one-to-one correspondence between a concept and a term. Terminological activities that can be outsourced to a crowd include suggesting or validating candidate terms, or voting on a preferred term from among a group of synonyms.
