e-Termos: a Computer-Supported Collaborative Work system for terminological management Leandro Henrique Mendon¸ ca de Oliveira 1 , Sandra Maria Alu´ ısio 2 , and Gladis Maria de Barcellos Almeida 3 1 EMBRAPA Inform´atica Agropecu´ aria, Av. Andr´ e Tosello, 209 - Bar˜ ao Geraldo - 13083-886 - Campinas/SP, Brasil 2 Departamento de Ciˆ encia da Computa¸c˜ ao, Universidade de S˜ ao Paulo Av. Trabalhador S˜ ao-Carlense, 400 - 13560-970 - S˜ ao Carlos/SP, Brasil 3 Departamento de Letras - Universidade Federal de S˜ ao Carlos Via Washington Lu´ ıs, Km. 235 - 13.565-905 - S˜ ao Carlos/SP, Brasil Resumo The e-Termos is a Web Collaborative Environment composed of six working modules to automatize tasks for managing terminological products. Each module is responsible for tasks inherent to the process of creating terminologies having different tools that assist the Natural Language Processing activities and also collaborative tools for supporting the communication and interaction needs of team members. The main contributions of e-Termos are the collaborative aspect instantiated in terminological practice, the flexible creation of Terminological Records and the possibility of being used for teaching terminology, lexicography and translation. Key words: Computational Terminology, Web Collaborative Environ- ment, CSCW, Collaborative Work. 1 Introduction The e-Termos (www.etermos.ufscar.br), an acronym for Electronic Terms, is a free-access Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) environment for terminological management. Its main goal is to enable the creation and man- agement of terminological products for different proposals, dissemination and teaching through the (semi)automation of the steps of the terminological task. Supported by the theoretical assumptions of a linguistically-motivated de- scriptive terminology theory, e-Termos implements 6 stages that represent the phases of the creation of terminological products. Each stage includes specific tasks that are related to the development of these products. These tasks are tied to several tools for linguistic analysis, which support the Natural Language Processing (NLP) activities involved in the process. 2 e-Termos: a Web Collaborative Environment e-Termos splits the management of terminological products in 6 stages, con- sidering the collaborative interaction among the users. The stages are: