LISE Legal Language Interoperability Services

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1 LISE Legal Language Interoperability Services Gerhard Budin University of Vienna Austrian Academy of Sciences 27 th of April, 2011 JIAMCATT meeting at ITC ILO - Turin

2 Main objectives of the Project The main purpose of the LISE project is to help terminology managers in public institutions as well as private service providers and companies improve the quality of their terminological resources in legal and administrative domains. The web-based, interactive terminology service is work-flow oriented and provides input and feedback from best practices in the field of legal and administrative terminology management. The workflow approach also facilitates data expansion and terminological enrichment Adding more data such as definitions, concept relations, etc. Language expansion Re-purposing of data for IR, NLP, ontology engineering, etc. Working towards communicative goals such as transparency, clarity, precision, uniqueness, etc. Harmonisation work is supported upon request by and in cooperation with data owners Terminological working principles differentiate between different types of prescriptive terminology management usually called harmonisation and standardisation, depending on the legal status of the resources concerned and of the data owners. This is part of the methodology that is being embodied in the LISE web-service workflow. The project has received funding from the European Community (ICT- PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n

3 Work Packages and Perspectives WP 1 Project Management WP 2 - Web Service Development WP 3 Legal Terminology and Workflow WP 4 Evaluation and Validation WP 5 Dissemination WP 6 Exploitation coordination, reporting, internal communication technical development, fine-tuning of web services processes, data, best practices analysis and solutions users, quality user group driving the project information, PR, external communication implementation, practical aspects, further development

4 Partners a special mix of competences University Vienna Cross Language ESTeam EURAC Austrian Parliament

5 WP 2- Web Service Development Tasks T2.1. Web Application T2.2. LISE Suite Integration, Databases and Communication T2.3. Human Service Support Interfaces Deliverables D2.2.1 First LISE Service Version (CO) M6 D2.2.2 Second LISE Service Version (CO) M12 D2.2.3 Final LISE Service Version (PU) M24 D2.2.4 Business Utility Interface (PU) M24 D2.2.5 Human Service Communication Support (PU) M24

6 LISE architecture

7 Technological approach Service Definitions The LISE Web Application design follows the SOA (Serviceoriented architecture) All LISE Services follow W3C definitions and the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Platforms LISE Services are designed to be platform-independent

8 WP 3- Legal Terminologies and Workflows Tasks Task 3.1 Analysis of existing workflows of terminology work Task 3.2 Linking terminology workflows to test scenarios of the LISE web services Task 3.3 Preparing a best practice guideline for optimised terminology management workflows Deliverables D3.1 Report Analysis of Existing Terminology Workflows (PU) M12 D3.2 Report Workflow Management for LISE (PU) M18 D3.3 Guidelines for Legal/Administrative Collaborative Terminology Work (PU) M24

9 Legal Terminologies and Workflows Applied research necessary research issues: Focus on data, processes, tools, actors (jurists, lawyers, legal writers, translators, terminologists, etc.) Understanding real-life processes in legal services, translation services/departments with all their problems Identifying best practices but also worst practices Analyzing work contexts, situations of translators, terminologists, legal experts, administrators, etc. Analysing, optimising, proposing and testing adapted methods and workflows Based on extensive research and practical experience in legal terminology, legal translation, jurilinguistique, legistics and jurisdiction in multilingual contexts at transcultural level, national level, local level Taking into account the complex terminological situation (lack of real equivalences, synonyms, polysems, different layers of legal language, specificity of legal concepts and legal texts Primary law vs. secondary law, different degrees of normativity, etc. Integrative Quality management approach

10 WP 4- Evaluation and Validation Tasks Task 4.1: Elaboration of a Quality Management Plan Task 4.2: User Group Evaluation and Validation Task 4.3: Specification of Human Service Communications Deliverables D4.1 Quality Management Plan (PU) M6 D4.2 Evaluation Plan (PU) M6 D4.3 Evaluation Result Report (PU) M30

11 User profiles and use scenarios The typical users are terminology managers, i.e. any expert having such a role (usually part time or as part of their work as legal experts, translators, legal writers, managers, administrators, etc.). Their typical profile is that they are searching for better solutions to managing legal and administrative terminologies due to the omnipresent intricacies and problems that this type of terminology work always presents, how to deal with discrepancies between European legal concepts and terms and more or less corresponding national concepts and terms in each EU language discrepancies between national legal concepts and terms (lack of equivalence) problems in stipulating lexical and conceptual equivalence for new European legal terminology to be agreed upon, thus creating new European law, etc.). Terminology managers are confronted with a lot of legacy data in existing databases (ranging from IATE to small but focused local terminology databases in local institutions, companies, service providers, etc. They are interested in consistent quality of these data and search for efficient solutions to this problem. At times the need for harmonization of such asymmetric terminology resources is identified by the responsible authorities. In such cases the LISE service provides technical, logistical, and export support by the interactive web service.

12 User Group Different types of organizations European and international organizations Language Service Provider Companies National and provincial public authorities with legal/administrative language/terminology units Organizations and their units focusing on terminology for specific language communities and domains User needs and requirements Lack of quality of data Lack of consistency Lack of data depth and precision Need for language expansion Need for domain expansion The user group is important for fine-tuning the services, for empirical problem analysis, and for service validation

13 WP 5- Dissemination Tasks Task 5.1: Setting up of the project Web site Task 5.2: Preparation of the Dissemination Plan Task 5.3: Dissemination of the ideas of LISE project and its results Deliverables D5.1 Project Website (PU) M2 D5.2 Dissemination Plan (PU) M6 D5.3 First Dissemination Interim Report (RE) M12 D5.4 Second Dissemination Interim Report (RE) M24

14 WP 6- Exploitation Task Task 6: Elaborating an Exploitation Plan and also a Business Plan with 2 parts: commercial aspects and methodological aspects Deliverables D6.1 Exploitation Plan (PU) M6 D6.2 Updated Exploitation Plan (PU) M30 D6.3 Business Plan (PU) M12

15 Possible workflow steps in terminology scenarios 1. Creating resources (data modelling, database implementation, corpus analysis term recognition, entry creation, database management, etc.) 2. Cleaning the resources - Software needs to view data from an error perspective (error typologies!) and take into consideration metadata rules of individual term databases 3. Translating resources to reach equal coverage for many (dozens of) languages - Software needs to find reliable translations from translation memory and propose to user for validation -> 4. Term Validation - Expert validation is necessary if a term (and its definition) is to have a legally accepted status in each official language -> 5. Standardization and Harmonization (if desirable) also interactive processes of consolidation LÍSE Vienna 25 March 2011

16 Tools 1. CleanUp Client Working Enviroment 2. FillUp Client Working Enviroment 3. OMEO Consolidation Working Enviroment -> Tools interacting with translation memory systems, MT systems, terminology database management systems, corpus analysis tools, etc. (interoperability issues -> TBX, TMX, etc.) LÍSE Vienna 25 March 2011

17 CleanUp Example LÍSE Vienna 25 March 2011

18 FillUp (Increasing Translation Coverage)Example LÍSE Vienna 25 March 2011

19 OMEO Example - Consolidation LÍSE Vienna 25 March 2011

20 Thank you for your attention! Call for participation Interested? Please contact: University of Vienna Center for Translation Studies Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology