Stages of creating an program „The dictionary of abbreviations”

Abstract

The paper provide an algorithm for creating a software product - "Dictionary of Abbreviations" and a list of the most common, which occur in the texts of instructions for medicines. The article outlines the object, subject, methods, language material and structure of the work. As first provides an overview of the; description of the concepts "abbreviation", "acronymization" and highlites the creation of a factual basis and the algorithm for creating a program "Dictionary of abbreviations" using computer programs AntConc and Python. Such a dictionary will help not only in the correct translation of abbreviations, but also improve the texts of professional terminology. The translation of professional terminology, which contains terms and abbreviations, is the subject of much debate among scholars. When translating abbreviations, the difficulties that arise in the process of interpreting abbreviations in text of the instructions for medical preparations, have been studied. The text of the instructions for medical preparations (1400 in total, 700 in each of the studied languages) served as the material of the study.