Are ISO Terminology Standards Fit for Terminology Management at the NATO?

NATO Conference on Terminology Management 19-20 November 2015 Are ISO Terminology Standards Fit for Terminology Management at the NATO? Hendrik J. Kockaert1,2 & Frieda Steurs1,2,3 KU Leuven1, University of the Free State2, UCO3 Abstract The NATO Terminology Office (NTO) advocates clear and unambiguous communication among its members and partners, following the NATO Policy for Standardization: "NATO documents must contain NATO agreed terminology." It is the NATO Terminology Programme (NTP) that provides standardized terminology, stamped with the "NATO Agreed" status to all NATO terms. This paper investigates in which way the NTO could apply terminology standards issued by ISO TC 37 with a view to pursuing this advocacy. Intensional definitions (ISO 704), instrumental in developing (multilingual) concept systems, will be tested on a sample of terms and definitions in the NATO terminology database. It will be demonstrated that ISO 24156-1, a terminology standard on concept modelling, is useful in implementing the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in multilingual concept systems with a view to consolidating and mapping agreed terminology, hence to communicating clearly. This paper will argue for NATO terminology management by adopting ISO standardsstatus: publishe