A Comprehensive Model for the Development of Standard Vocabulary Documents with Co-word Analysis Approach

To develop a terminology as a linguistic product, there are some approaches according to the topic area and needs of its developers. There are some approaches in which each could have weak and strong points that would be a challenge for developers. International Organization of Standardization (ISO) prescribes standardized guidelines to develop terminologies and thesauruses not nessiserlily obeying all linguistics rules but acquired minimum linguistics rules to address a diverse audience in all over the world. In current exploratory paper, according to comparative study and investigation of standard documents, the researcher has used co-word analysis method to develop an applied model in order to use for developing standardized documents of vocabularies in different scientific domains. To validate the model, the expert panel convenes several meetings. The proposed model was implemented and deployed to develop standard document, for knowledge management terms and definitions, as a pilot project. The findings reveal that, the proposed model tested successfully and the outcome was accepted by experts. The model is suggested to be used for other researchers to develop similar standard terminologies.