course 12_computer aided terminology

8/10/2019 Course 12_Computer Aided Terminology

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Computer-aided terminology

Electronic tools, databases


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The role of computers in terminology/terminography:

Documentation access to databanks, specialized

texts in electronic format prior to beginning work

Creation of corpus

automatic term extraction Terminological records in electronic format writing

the entry

Checking the information in the entry

Editing glossaries in electronic format

(ap. Rucareanu & Pavel, Cabre)


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Problems related to using electronic tools in terminologywork:

Lack of integrating computer resources in work methods

Lack of compatibility among the resources

Limited degree of computer processing available by eachresource, human intervention constantly required (?)

The lack of an operative user friendly interface betweenhumans and computers (resulting from difficulties relatedto communication in natural languages)

Limited number of corpora, especially in languages otherthan the major international languages (English, French)(ap. MT Cabre1999)


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Data banks = information organized in

records, subdivided into data fields

Steps for creating a databank

Identification of needs

Defining parameters (by group of

experts) Choosing the working group


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Design of the databank

Choosing the hardware and software

Entry

type of information, sources,structure of the information etc.

Storage type of records, relationship

among records, structure of records Retrievaltypes of queries, formats of

retrieved information (ap MT Cabre)


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Data banks of interest to terminology

Document databases (Eurlex)

Specialized text data banks (corpora)

Economic neology in Romance languages (Romanian among them) glossary of economic terms extracted from the press (useful for a

comparative approach to terminology and for the study of neology in a

specific domain.

http://obneo.iula.upf.edu/economia/esp/index.html

Ordilex.com, Lexiques multilingueshttp://www.ordilex.com/documents/index.html

Grand dictionnaire terminologiquehttp://w3.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asp
http://obneo.iula.upf.edu/economia/esp/index.htmlhttp://www.ordilex.com/documents/index.htmlhttp://w3.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asphttp://w3.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asphttp://www.ordilex.com/documents/index.htmlhttp://obneo.iula.upf.edu/economia/esp/index.htmlhttp://obneo.iula.upf.edu/economia/esp/index.html


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BNCat http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

(a good page on corpora at http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html)

Corpus of Professional English(CPE) a major research project of PERC(Professional English Research Consortium) currently underway that, when finished, will consist

of a 100-million-word computerized database of Eng used by professionals in science,

engineering, technology, law, medicine, finance & other fields.

Wolverhampton Business English Corpus10,186,259 wds in the generaldomain of business, collected from 23 different web sites around the world (from six months within

the period 1999-2000), covering a wide variety of categories including product descriptions,

company press releases, annual financial reports, business journalism, academic research

papers, political speeches & government reports. POS-tagged. Alternatively you can see &

compare frequency lists & ngrams for various subcorpora/text genres (including business texts).

Knowledge bases (Protga free open source ontology editorand knowledge-base framework at

http://protege.stanford.edu/index.html)
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.htmlhttp://www.perc21.org/cpe_project/index.htmlhttp://www.perc21.org/menu.htmlhttp://www.elda.org/catalogue/en/text/W0028.htmlhttp://www.elda.org/catalogue/en/text/W0028.htmlhttp://protege.stanford.edu/index.htmlhttp://protege.stanford.edu/index.htmlhttp://www.elda.org/catalogue/en/text/W0028.htmlhttp://www.elda.org/catalogue/en/text/W0028.htmlhttp://www.perc21.org/menu.htmlhttp://www.perc21.org/cpe_project/index.htmlhttp://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.htmlhttp://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/


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Terminological databank: a structuredcollection of information about the units of

meaning and designation of a specialized

field addressed to the needs of a specificgroup of users

Consists of:

A main database (including the terms) Other databanks related to each other (containing

information on some aspect of the terms)


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Classification of databanks:

By objectives: informative (they disseminateterminology); prescriptive (they intervene in term

usage); By entries: based on terms; based on concepts;

by subject matter: specialized in a subject field;specialized in several related subject fields;

By size: large banks (administrative bodies, ex.IATE); terminology minibanks (developed by a

professional /centre specializing in a subject field)


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By type of data (term banks, with definitions,phrase banks, encyclopedic banks, visual banks)

By number of languages (mono-, bi-

multilingual) By type of data organization (organized by

document, organized by terms without context)

(M.T. Cabre)


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In addition to the dictionaries which can be

purchased on CD-ROM, and glossaries built

up by the translator himself, there is now the

possibility of accessing term banks publiclyavailable through the Internet. Many national

and international organisations and

institutions are making their term banksavailable in this way, and their availability will

soon become the primary reason for

translators to use modems.


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Organisational term banks of this type have the

advantage of being more up-to-date than paper-

based dictionaries, of constituting an

authoritative source, and of being instantlyavailable from the work station.

One problem with these term banks is the lack of

standardization in the layout of the term records

and search engines used to access thetermbank. This lack of standardization is adding

yet another learning experience for the modern,

professional translator.


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(Pavel&Nolet: 2001, 61-84) limits its role to a

simple set of tools the terminologist has to

use in different moments of terminological

workflow. The authors mention onlycategories and subcategories of software

used in terminology such as documentary

search tools, term extraction tools,terminology research tools, data recording

tools, electronic-publishing tools, and

database management tools.


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Tools for term extraction:

Term extractor Termostatweb

http://idefix.ling.umontreal.ca/~drouinp/termo

stat_web/
http://idefix.ling.umontreal.ca/~drouinp/termostat_web/http://idefix.ling.umontreal.ca/~drouinp/termostat_web/http://idefix.ling.umontreal.ca/~drouinp/termostat_web/http://idefix.ling.umontreal.ca/~drouinp/termostat_web/


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Ordilex.com, Lexiques multilingues

http://www.ordilex.com/documents/index.html

LEXIQUE FRANAIS-ANGLAIS DE L'IMMOBILIER : UNE VRITABLEBASE DE CONNAISSANCES.

La version en ligne de notre lexique franais-anglais des termes de

l'immobiliervous permet d'utiliser de nombreuses fonctionnalits.
http://www.ordilex.com/documents/index.htmlhttp://d/My%20Documents/terminologie/MA%20an%20II/%20http:/www.ordilex.com/documents/immobilier/index.htmlhttp://d/My%20Documents/terminologie/MA%20an%20II/%20http:/www.ordilex.com/documents/immobilier/index.htmlhttp://d/My%20Documents/terminologie/MA%20an%20II/%20http:/www.ordilex.com/documents/immobilier/index.htmlhttp://d/My%20Documents/terminologie/MA%20an%20II/%20http:/www.ordilex.com/documents/immobilier/index.htmlhttp://d/My%20Documents/terminologie/MA%20an%20II/%20http:/www.ordilex.com/documents/immobilier/index.htmlhttp://d/My%20Documents/terminologie/MA%20an%20II/%20http:/www.ordilex.com/documents/immobilier/index.htmlhttp://www.ordilex.com/documents/index.html


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Alignment tools:

Alignment tool in Terminotix

at http://www.youalign.com/Default.aspx
http://www.youalign.com/Default.aspxhttp://www.terminotix.com/?lang=enhttp://www.youalign.com/Default.aspx


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Tools for corpus analysis (providing concordances, wordlist, n-grams, collocations, +/- contexts)

AntConc athttp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

Linguateca at http://www.linguateca.pt/corpografo/

More about corpora and tools athttp://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl560/corpli

ngresources.htm
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.htmlhttp://www.linguateca.pt/corpografo/http://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl560/corplingresources.htmhttp://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl560/corplingresources.htmhttp://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl560/corplingresources.htmhttp://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl560/corplingresources.htmhttp://www.linguateca.pt/corpografo/http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html


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Textalyser This text analysis tool provides information on thereadability and complexity of a text, as well as statistics on word

frequency and character count. It can be of assistance to translators

when calculating quotes for clients.

http://www.lexicool.com/text_analyzer.asp
http://www.lexicool.com/text_analyzer.asphttp://www.lexicool.com/text_analyzer.asp


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the virtualization of terminology describes the new set of

integrated solutions using cloud-based terminology tools

allowing terminologists to work in an interactive and

collaborative environment which facilitates real-time

communication and collective classification of data, easyaccess to the information from anywhere and with almost

any electronic device, continuous evaluation, update,

and revision of processed data. These tools open new

perspective in the further development of the terminologytools to the implementation of terminology as a service

(TaaS). (Cristina Varga, Virtualization of Research in

Terminology. Cloud-based Terminology Management

Tools, 2013)


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http://www.termwiki.com/

Termw ik ia cloud-based terminology

management. A strong aspect of Termwik iis

represented by the complex term record formincluding main term, equivalents, definition, part

of speech, synonyms, domain, sub-domain,

product/producer which allows terminologist to

create complex glossaries. Termwik iterminology tools allow the user to create

multimedia glossaries too because they support

image and sound files.