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The Technical Committee "Language and Terminology" of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TC 37) develops standards on terminology, natural language processing, translation, interpreting, and other language-based activities in the multilingual information society. ISO/TC 37 was established in 1947 and initially focused on standards relating to terminology. Today, its mandate has been extended to the standardization of descriptions, resources, technologies, and services related to the economic, academic, or societal sectors.
ISO/TC 37 is one of nine committees at ISO that create horizontal standards for other ISO committees and for IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO thus requires all its technical committees to follow ISO 704:2022 “Terminology work — Principles and methods“ and ISO 10241-12011 “Terminological entries in standards — Part 1: General requirements and examples of presentation when documenting terminology in ISO standards”.
In general, the application of ISO/TC 37 standards will help to
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• enhance the overall quality of language resources
in all subject fields;
• improve information management within various
industrial, technical, commercial, and scientific
environments;
• reduce its costs and increase efficiency in technical
standardization and professional communication;
• increase international trade by reducing language
barriers through the provision of professional
language services;
• leverage language resources to deliver content-
mining solutions that have global impact, such as
reducing global health risks and protecting the
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See  ISO/TC 37 Business Plan
See ISO/TC 37 in brief
Subcommittees:
ISO/TC 37/SC 1 Principles and methods → see
ISO/TC 37/SC 2 Terminographical and lexicographical working methods → see
ISO/TC 37/SC 3 Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content → see, see also
ISO/TC 37/SC 4 Language resource management →see, see also
ISO/TC 37/SC 5 Translation, interpreting and related technology → see
As from 1 January 2009, the Secretariat of ISO/TC 37 is held by the China National Institute for Standardization (CNIS) on behalf of the Standardization Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SAC).
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