ATA Presentation 2016

1. TERMINOLOGY
Tips and tricks to boost your
terminology work
Laura Ramírez
Polo
University of Illinois
@kleinelaura

2. Terminology & Translation 2

3. 30-60 % 90%
Time spent
to solve terminological
problems (Gornostay et
al. 2010)
Return on
Investment
On terminology
management reported
by some corporate
studies
(Childress,2007;
Popiolek,2015)
Terminology
management
In specialized translation
Researching the specific terminology
needed to complete any given
translation can be a time-consuming
and labour-intensive task (Bowker,
2014)Terminology work is “on backstage”,
and customer or employers may not be
fully aware of their benefits for QA.
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4. Terminology is the discipline
concerned with the collection,
processing, description and
presentation of terms, which are
lexical items belonging to a
specialized subject field (e.g.
medicine, law, engineering,
library science or art history).
Bower (2014)
What is terminology?
From the point of view of the translation and localization industry practitioners,
terminology management can be more practically defined as the activity of
systematically collecting, processing, classifying and consistently applying
vocabulary that has specific meaning in a given subject field or context (terms)
according to some governing methodology–
Popiolek (2014)
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5. Stages in the Terminology
Process
Setting up the
infraestructure for
managing terminology,
doing term analysis
and research, and
recording that
information
MANAGEMENT
Ensuring that
appropriate
terminology
is used correctly and
consistently throughout
all the translated
material;
IMPLEMENTATION
of an integrated
terminology
management data
base – Ongoing
maintenance
and updating of
terminology
MAINTENANCE
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Popiolek, 2014

6. PROCESSING DESCRIBINGCOLLECTING
Putting the information
in electronic format
Term researchTerm extraction or analysis
Terminology Management
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7. Automatic
Extraction
Monolingual ATE
Automatic
extraction
Bilingual ATEs (BATEs)
Semi-automatic
extraction
Interactive extraction
As you translate:
monolingual extraction
Manual extraction
Collection: before or ad hoc
Terminology Extraction or Analysis
Before translating:
monolingual extraction
Tools for corpora analysis:
monolingual extraction
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8. Automatic Term Extraction
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Vargas Sierra, C. (2016), Bilingual Terminology Extraction from TMX. A state-of-the-art overview,
Forum Translating in Europe, 2016.

9. Monolingual ATE 9

10. BATE
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11. Semi-automatic Term Extraction: Corpora
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12. As you translate: Ad-hoc term analysis
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13. Processing: Term Research
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PROCESSING
Term research

14. Dictionaries: monolingual, bilingual,
general, specialized
Terminology Databases: TERMCAT,
IATE, UNTERM, WIPO Pearl etc.
Other lexical resources: glossaries,
vocabulary lists etc.
Corpora: monolingual and aligned
bilingual corpora
Strategies for Term Research

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CEO & FOUNDER
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Google Custom Search Engines
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Site:
Restricts the
search to a site
Boolean
operators
-
OR
“ “
*
Related:
List pages which
Google consider
to be related to
another
Ext: / Filetype:
Restricts the
results to a
certain filetype
Google Search
Operators

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Google Advanced
Search

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To search for…
Other lexical and
terminological
resources
Texts!

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Texts?

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Start with lexical resources
Tensor
Ajustador del cable
Cable tensor
Ajustador
…

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Regulador
Cable
…

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Is this enough?

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Always double-check with real
texts

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Use Google Images for textual
matches

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Beware of the sources
Accesorios de Camping
Tienda de campaña
sujetador…
…

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Let’s look for real (and reliable)
texts!What about…
catálogo accesorios camping site:es
ext:pdf
…

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A dry down of cistus leaves and patchouli blended with
creamy sandalwood creates a magnetic, empowering
sensuality. Exhilarating. Powerful. Magnetic.
A sensual woody fragrance, the juice opens with an inviting
breath of freshness, and the spicy top note evolves into
the arresting heart of sensual woods, with a dark sexy
musky dry down. Mysterious. Masculine. Sexy.
The importance of real texts

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Functional approach
Use the terminology that your audience is
used to….
Which might not always be the “right”
terminology.

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Other tricks
If you have an acronym, search the acronym with a possible translation.
• certificate revocation list (CRL)
• CRL AND certificado, CLR AND lista
Search a specific term with a common term
• Fiber pigtail
• Fibra AND cable
Use Global Gateways
Change URLs
Asks the experts!

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https://www.swatch.com/es/services/user-manuals/standard-manual.pdf
Change URLs

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Ask the experts

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Wrapping up…

39. And after all this work…Describe/Record
Avoid using a Word Processor for Terminology Description
Save your data, if possible in a Termbase.
Use the plugins of CAT tools.
If you don’t have Termbase software, use a Spreadsheet:
you’ll be able to convert the data afterwards.
If you find interesting glossaries online, try to convert them
(e.g. Multiterm Convert, import functionalities in most CAT
Tools). Some might require some preprocessing.
Try to record all the information that you’ll need: the
equivalent but also possibly a context? Cite the source if the
database is going to be published.
DESCRIBING
Putting the information
in electronic format

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41. v
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It’s time to implement the terminology…
Term
Recognition
Terminology QA Excel Glossary
Functionalities
Terminology QA
with external tools
ApSIC XBench.

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Maintenance
Update your termbase
.
Check for inconsistencies
Delete entries
Be Smart

43. START
ANALIZE
EXTRACT
DESCRIBE
RECORDRESEARCH IMPLEMENT
MAINTAIN
END
Road MapFor Terminology Work

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Arntz, R. (1993). Terminological equivalence and Translation, In erminology. Applications in
interdisciplinary communication (pp 5-19).
Bowker, L. (2014). Terminology and translation. In H. J. Kockaert & F. Steurs (Eds.), Handbook of
terminology 1 (pp. 302-321).
Childress, M. D. (2007). Terminology work saves more than it costs, InMultilingual
April/May 2007 (pp 43-46).
Gornostay, T. et al. (2010). Bridging the Gap–EuroTermBank Terminology Delivered to Users’
Environment. Proceedings of the 14th Annual European Association for Machine Translation
(EAMT) Conference..
Popiolek, M. (2014). Terminology management within a translation quality assurance process.
In H. J. Kockaert & F. Steurs (Eds.), Handbook of terminology 1 (pp. 341-359).
Vargas Sierra, C. (2016), Bilingual Terminology Extraction from TMX. A state-of-the-art overview,
Forum Translating in Europe, 2016.
References

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THANK YOU
lauramip@Illinois.edu
@kleinelaura