Tanja Wissik. COTSOES Terminology and Documentation Working Group Meeting, 13 May 2013, Stockholm

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1 Tanja Wissik COTSOES Terminology and Documentation Working Group Meeting, 13 May 2013, Stockholm

2 What is LISE? Main pillars of the LISE Project LISE Service Version and IATE use case Workflow Research LISE Demos Outlook The project has received funding from the European Community (ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n

3 EU project (ICT-PSP): Achieve interoperability: Improve the quality of large inter-institutional or inter-departmental terminological resources by efficiently cleaning them in a collaborative online environment Benefits Spot inconsistencies and gaps Collaborate with associated institutions Learn from proven best practices Tool demos:

4 Workflow research and best practices in (inter-institutional) terminology work Development of a terminology service platform to support inter-institutional terminology work and to (semi)automate processes

5 User groups: IATE EU Institutions involved in IATE European Commission, Parliament, Council, Court of Justice. Court of Auditors, Economic & Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, European Investment Bank, Translation Centre for the Bodies of the EU Austrian Parliament Evaluation phase

6 Before Redundant Inconsistent Incomplete Spot the Flaws Doublettes Inconsistencies Gaps Collaboratively Review Clean Add Approve After Cleaned Consistent Enhanced

7 Components 3 Tools Cleanup Omeo Fillup Web-based collaborative Platform The project has received funding from the European Community (ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n

8 Data set Entries Terms Languages Full export 1,470,943 11,163, subset 21,515 95, Number of terms in each language BG CS DA DE EL EN ES ET FI FR HU IT LT LV MT NL PL PT RO SK SL SV Number of languages per entry languages

9 Doublettes (terms): Doublettes (entries): 1324 Wrong language? 1497 Spelling: 5247

10 FR: A FR: B FR: C EN: old age insurance EN: old-age insurance EN: insurance in DE: DE: respect of old-age DE: IT: IT: IT: EN: old age insurance A EN: old-age insurance EN: insurance in respect of old-age

11 Omeo identifies doublettes Three IATE records suggested to become one.

12 Fillup suggests translations Out of a translation memory, Fillup suggests for the existing English terms GC / gyro compass the German term Kreiselkompasse

13 The LISE collaboration platform The LISE collaboration platform

14 Interviews Interview guidelines 17 conducted Recorded, transcribed, analysed Survey On-line Available until end of March 2012 Disseminated via relevant networks 22 completed

15 Österreichische Nationalbank (Austria) Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken (Netherlands) TERMCAT (Spain) Auswärtiges Amt (Germany) Translation Centre for the Bodies of the EU DGA3 Terminology and Documentation, General Secretariat, EU Council DG TRAD Terminology Coordination at the European Parliament Court of Justice of the European Union, Terminology section DG Translation D.03 - Terminology Coordination at the European Commission Sektion Terminologie der Schweizerischen Bundeskanzlei (Switzerland) Staatskanzlei des Kantons Bern - Zentraler Terminologiedienst (Switzerland) Meeting Planning and Language Support Group - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Ausschuss der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft für die deutsche Rechtsterminologie - Ministerium der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens (Belgium) An Coiste Téarmaíochta Foras na Gaeilge (Ireland) Terminologicentrum TNC (Sweden) Terminology Standardization Directorate/Translation Bureau, (Canada)

16 If we go about cleaning up in about 20 to 30 terms at the time, it will take about 100 years before we get anywhere. We would like to clean up, but frankly, I think, we need some assistance. Currently, with the cleaning up operation, I don't think we can go very far with that. (INT6) this is one side and cleaning is the other side. I mean, content-wise the database is well structured, but needs cleaning because we have lots of duplications, lots of things that are not necessary and others we need and are not there yet. (INT7)

17 [N]atürlich großen Bedarf an Koordinierung und Harmonisierung dessen, was gemacht wird. Insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Einspeisung in die Datenbank und die Aktualisierung der Datenbank. (INT9) And when it is larger and all that and if it involves mappings, scripts and things like that, this has to be done on a... Sometimes we would deal with that in batches, depending on the size of the project (INT17)

18 If you look at the figures for the monolingual, bilingual and trilingual entries, more than half of the database is made of monolingual and bilingual entries, which probably shouldn't be there, which are probably quite useless. (INT6) Was interessant wäre, einen Abgleich zwischen wirklich, was Termkandidaten aus der Translation Memory und Abgleich mit [der Termbank], was schon drinnen ist. (INT1)

19 Was uns vielleicht fehlt momentan, ist so dieses Kommunikations, diese Plattform, so zu kommunizieren. (INT5) They send us an or come and talk to us. We are in the same building. (INT6) And then they send us the list, Could you please delete or merge your data on to ours, so that we could eliminate a couple of duplicates in this area. (INT7)

20 Needs analysis summary

21 Need expressed Addressed by tools How Additional (qualified) staff indirectly Cleanup, Fillup relieve staff from menial activities Data clean-up and consolidation yes Cleanup, Omeo, platform Data expansion (languages, domains) yes Fillup Time pressure hampers systematic terminology work Limited support by available tools yes Cleanup, Omeo, Fillup, platform Insufficient flexibility/integration of available tools no yes platform, Cleanup, Omeo, Fillup

22 Need expressed Difficulty of involving and coordinating domain experts Difficulty of cooperating (data exchange, copyright issues) Addressed by tools partly partly How platform Lack of adequate reference material partly Fillup platform, Omeo, Cleanup Difficulty of disseminating work indirectly Cleanup, Fillup, provide more user-friendly high quality data

23 Cleanup Omeo Fillup The project has received funding from the European Community (ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n

24 Findings and LISE Service Version not only suitable for legal and administrative terminology, but also applicable to other domains Best Practices publicly available in July 2013 LISE section LISE A Quality Boost for Terminological Resources at the LSP2013 (19 th European Symposium on Language for Special Purpose) in Vienna on the 8 th of July

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