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Wolfgang Nedobity
Specialized languages are the tools for subject communication by which modern society conveys its achievements and experience from generation to generation and
from people to people. The specialized languages are
characterized by using clearly defined concepts to which
preferably unambiguous terms are assigned. The concepts
form systems of concepts in the individual subject fields.
Together with their assigned terms they constitute the respective terminology, which reflects the state of human
knowledge about the subject field in question. Terminologies have an influence on scientific, technical, and economic progress. Deficient terminologies endanger the information flow not only between people but from people
to machine and machine to machine as well. Therefore
all individual objects is also called class. The characteristics of concepts help us classify concepts and construct
systems of concepts (see Felber 1982:4).
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guide subject specialists in constructing systems of concepts. The most pertinent one in this respect is ISO/R
919-1969 "Guide for the preparation of classified vocabularies (Example of method)".
Wster's Classification Theory
The main purpose of Wster's work in this field was
to create a classification for ordering of concepts in die-
The notation appears in form of terms, sometimes supplemented by reference numbers for quick location in the
system.
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