Happy medium: Happy medium: Terminology and Terminology and

terminography in the terminography in the electronic ageelectronic age

Elizabeth MarshmanElizabeth MarshmanUniversity of Ottawa / University of Ottawa /

Observatoire de linguistique Sens-texteObservatoire de linguistique Sens-texte2010 JCTC Symposium2010 JCTC Symposium

University of Ottawa, 18 February 2010University of Ottawa, 18 February 2010

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IntroductionIntroduction

Terminologists as early and Terminologists as early and enthusiastic adopters of technologiesenthusiastic adopters of technologies– DeliveryDelivery– Behind the scenesBehind the scenes

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DocumentationDocumentation

InternetInternet DatabasesDatabases e-Bookse-Books Knowledge Knowledge

basesbases DiscussionDiscussion

boardsboards WikisWikis

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DocumentationDocumentation

Translation (parallel) corpora and Translation (parallel) corpora and translation memoriestranslation memories

(1) SDL Trados (2) LogiTerm (3) MultiTrans

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DocumentationDocumentation

WeBiText

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DocumentationDocumentation

TransSearch

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Term extractionTerm extraction

MonolingualMonolingual– TechniquesTechniques

Frequency- and Frequency- and recurrence-basedrecurrence-based

Pattern-basedPattern-based HybridHybrid Corpus Corpus

comparisoncomparison

LogiTerm

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Term extractionTerm extraction

Monolingual extractionMonolingual extraction– Enhancements: Lemmatization, variant neutralizationEnhancements: Lemmatization, variant neutralization

TermoStat Web

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Term extractionTerm extraction Bilingual: Translation corpora, translation memoriesBilingual: Translation corpora, translation memories

Fusion Translate

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Term extractionTerm extraction

New direction: New direction: – Bilingual extraction from large Bilingual extraction from large

comparable corporacomparable corpora

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Corpus analysisCorpus analysis

Concordancers: “Batch” searchingConcordancers: “Batch” searching

TextStat

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Corpus analysisCorpus analysis

Concordancers:Concordancers:– Simple and complex searchesSimple and complex searches

TextStat

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Corpus analysis toolsCorpus analysis tools

Concordancers: KWIC and sortingConcordancers: KWIC and sorting

WordSmith Tools

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Corpus analysis toolsCorpus analysis tools Corpus analysis tools: collocations and co-occurrentsCorpus analysis tools: collocations and co-occurrents

WordSmith Tools

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Phraseology and Phraseology and collocationscollocations

TERMIUM® Plus DiCoInfo

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Corpus analysis toolsCorpus analysis tools Knowledge-rich contexts: data for concept analysisKnowledge-rich contexts: data for concept analysis

TerminoWeb

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Knowledge structuring Knowledge structuring toolstools

Protegé

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Terminology Terminology management systemsmanagement systems

MultiTrans

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Terminology Terminology management systemsmanagement systems

Smoother integration with other toolsSmoother integration with other tools– Translation environmentsTranslation environments

ExchangeabilityExchangeability– TermBase eXchange (TBX)TermBase eXchange (TBX)

Increased collaborationIncreased collaboration– AccessAccess– WorkflowWorkflow– Wiki?Wiki?

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Uses and Uses and usersusers

Typical users and applicationsTypical users and applications– Translators, writers, revisers, subject-Translators, writers, revisers, subject-

field experts…field experts… New perspectivesNew perspectives

– Easier access to documentationEasier access to documentationfor allfor all Value added from terminology workValue added from terminology work

– Increasing technology useIncreasing technology use Adapting presentation toAdapting presentation to

new interfaces (e.g. pretranslation) new interfaces (e.g. pretranslation)

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Terminology Terminology monitoringmonitoring

TerminometricsTerminometrics

Barçah

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Uses and Uses and usersusers

New situations and “users”New situations and “users”– Controlled-language checking Controlled-language checking – Information retrieval, e.g.Information retrieval, e.g.

Query expansionQuery expansion Cross-language information retrievalCross-language information retrieval

– Ontology buildingOntology building

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ConclusionsConclusions Technologies have transformed methods in Technologies have transformed methods in

terminology and terminographyterminology and terminography They have also transformed how we think They have also transformed how we think

about the terminology, its goals and its end-about the terminology, its goals and its end-usersusers

All three (technologies, terminology work, All three (technologies, terminology work, terminology theory) will continue to evolve terminology theory) will continue to evolve and influence one anotherand influence one another– Need for technology-savvy terminologists to Need for technology-savvy terminologists to

explore possibilities explore possibilities andand limitations of technology limitations of technology use, develop best practices, investigate use, develop best practices, investigate requirements of new uses and usersrequirements of new uses and users

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Steps for the futureSteps for the future Practicing terminologistsPracticing terminologists

– Increasing comfort with technologies and new resourcesIncreasing comfort with technologies and new resources– Helping to establish best practices for using new types Helping to establish best practices for using new types

of resourcesof resources– Target ways of meeting users’ needs and highlighting Target ways of meeting users’ needs and highlighting

value addedvalue added Future terminologistsFuture terminologists

– Dealing with increasingly heavy technological “load” in Dealing with increasingly heavy technological “load” in preparing for work, requirespreparing for work, requires Increasing comfort with technologiesIncreasing comfort with technologies Increasing critical thinking about technologiesIncreasing critical thinking about technologies

DevelopersDevelopers– Increasing familiarity with terminologists’ needs and Increasing familiarity with terminologists’ needs and

practices to develop even more useful toolspractices to develop even more useful tools

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Thanks!Thanks!

Thanks to the JCTC for the invitation Thanks to the JCTC for the invitation and organization, and to speakers and organization, and to speakers

and attendees for being here.and attendees for being here.

Enjoy the Symposium!Enjoy the Symposium!

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Online and freeware Online and freeware toolstools

DiCoInfo DiCoInfo (Marie-Claude L’Homme, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-(Marie-Claude L’Homme, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-texte)texte)http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/cgi-bin/dicoinfo/search.cgi

Grand dictionnaire terminologique (OQLF) http://www.granddictionnaire.com

Protégé (Stanford University)http://protege.stanford.edu

TerminoWeb (Caroline Barrière, IIT-NRC) http://termino.iit.nrc.ca/

TERMIUM® Plus (BT) http://www.termiumplus.com

TermoStat Web (Patrick Drouin, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-texte)http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/~drouinp/termostat_web/

TextStat (M. Hüning, Freie Universitat Berlin)http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/

WeBiText (A. Désilets, M. Stojanovic & B. Farley, IIT-NRC) www.webitext.com

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Commercial toolsCommercial tools Fusion Translate (JiveFusion Technologies)Fusion Translate (JiveFusion Technologies)

www.jivefusiontech.com www.jivefusiontech.com LogiTerm (Terminotix) LogiTerm (Terminotix)

www.terminotix.comwww.terminotix.com MultiTrans (Multicorpora) MultiTrans (Multicorpora)

www.multicorpora.comwww.multicorpora.com SDL Trados Translator’s Workbench (SDL Trados)SDL Trados Translator’s Workbench (SDL Trados)

www.trados.com www.trados.com TransSearch (Terminotix)TransSearch (Terminotix)

www.terminotix.com www.terminotix.com WordSmith Tools (Oxford University Press)WordSmith Tools (Oxford University Press)

www.oup.co.ukwww.oup.co.uk