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The article examines the receptive and productive vocabulary competences of N = 340 international students at German universities using frequency-based vocabulary tests. It is investigated to what extent vocabulary competence and academic success are connected and whether the graduates of different university admission language tests (e. g. DSH, TestDaF) show comparable vocabulary competences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we will present a corpus-based analysis of the reading proficiency levels required in three exams as operationalized by various measures of lexical complexity (DSH, telc C1 Deutsch Hochschule, and TestDaF). These results will be compared to the difficulty levels of actual reading samples from textbooks used by undergraduate students in three subjects (chemistry, economics, and medicine). Some implications for language curricula will also be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After more than 15 years of permanent updating, STW Thesaurus for Economics has been completely revised during the last few years, subject by subject. Eventually, the result was published as version 9.0 in the summer of 2015. In the end, more than 750 thesaurus concepts had been added, and nearly 1100 (out of ca. 6000) concepts had been eliminated. In addition, entry terms have been adapted and the systematic structure has been improved. Against this background, the authors give a description how radical subject domain changes are reflected in thesaurus vocabulary, which requirements have to be met by thesaurus maintenance software, and how changes of vocabulary can be published and be held available as Linked Data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this contribution, an attempt is made to characterize information science, largely interpreted as an information retrieval discipline, from a synchronous perspective, where the current position of information science in a field of other sign-related and vocabulary-concerned disciplines is determined (besides linguistics, terminology science and research in languages for special purposes). Within this framework of analysis, information retrieval is postulated as the core of information science, containing information search context and the concepts of information need and relevance as central elements. Under this restrictive precondition it becomes possible to explain synchronously the relationships of information science to its neighbor disciplines through a set of discipline- specific sign requirements in a network of systematic connections. The relationships between the disciplines are described by two dimensions, control/liability and localization of the vocabulary ('in the mind' vs. in external documents), and a superordinate principle of syntagmatization, uniting those two dimensions, is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]