Terminology science, international languages, and knowledge communication

Eugen Wüster, the founder of terminology science, is considered in this study as part of a long tradition of interventions in natural languages aiming at improving their representative and communicative efÏciency. From the invention of artificial language systems (in 17th century Europe), through language planning (from the 19th century onwards) this tradition continues in contemporary formalised models developed in Natural Language Processing that are at the basis of Artificial Intelligence applications. International artificial/auxiliary languages are recognised to have a key role in the birth of terminology as a scientific discipline.