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Translation Forum Russia 2012, St.-Petersburg
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TILDETILDE
• Language technology and localization company
• Offices in Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania),
Tallinn (Estonia)
• >100 employees, including 3 PhDs and 6 PhD
candidates/students
• Expertise in translation technologies,
terminology management
and languages of the Baltic countries

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In outline...In outline...
• User-orientedUser-oriented
• CollaborativeCollaborative
• InteroperableInteroperable
• SharedShared

User-orientedUser-oriented
User and his needs #1User and his needs #1

User need surveysUser need surveys
• LISA 2004: TM within L10N
– 1/3 of companies used spreadsheet as a primary
tool for terminology management (TM)
– ½+ did not manage terminology systematically
due to the absence of a right tool
• were dissatisfied with the functionality of existing tools
• did not have information about available tools

• SDL 2008/2010: TM within businesses &
translation/L10N
– the biggest concern – inconsistent terminology
• affected the brand, customer satisfaction, cost of
producing, translating content, communication within
the organization (business) & quality of translation,
style and consistency of translation, productivity,
employer/client satisfaction (translation/L10N)
– TM
• spreadsheets as a primary tool for TM

• SDL 2008/2010: TM within businesses &
translation/L10N
– Top 5 challenges for translators
• terminology research
• inconsistent terminology in source content
• creating terms and getting approval on new terms
• sharing approved terminology
• budget constraints

SDL 2008/2010: TM within businesses &
translation/L10N
– another crucial issue
• terminology extraction
• 84% select terms from documents manually

Calling Professionals:
Help Us to Understand Your Needs!
•TTC project
– Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools &
Comparable Corpora
•2010 online survey
– www.ttc-project.eu/releases
•139 participants from 31 countries
– Europe, South & North America, Asia

• TTC 2010: usage patterns and user needs
in TM in translation/L10N
– 10-30% of time work with terminology
– top activity
• terminology research & collection
– top tools
• MS Word & Excel
– top resource
• internal glossaries & databases

ConclusionConclusion
• TM practice has not changed greatly since ’04
– Top “must have”
• user-friendly interface
• consolidated access to different resources
⇒consolidated platforms
• consistency check and support features
• text processing solutions

CollaborativeCollaborative
Team workTeam work

Usage of online terminology resourcesUsage of online terminology resources
63.3% of respondents use
online terminology databases

Database FederationDatabase Federation
•A federated database system is a collection of
cooperating database systems that are
autonomous and possibly heterogeneous
(Sheth & Larson, 1990)

Federation of term banksFederation of term banks in 2005in 2005::
EuroTermBankEuroTermBank
www.eurotermbank.com
•2 million terms in 27 languages from 101 resources
•>300 000 term entries digitized from paper sources
•Developed in EU eContent Programme project by consortium partners
– Tilde (Latvia) - Coordinator
– Institute of Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
– University of Tartu (Estonia)
– Centre for Language Technology at University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
– Institute for Information Management at Cologne University of Applied
Sciences (Germany)
– MorphoLogic (Hungary)
– Terminology Commission of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (Latvia)
– Information Processing Centre (Poland)

Federation approachFederation approach
in EuroTermBankin EuroTermBank

InteroperableInteroperable
Available from everywhereAvailable from everywhere

• Top 1 feature is terminology lookup speed
• Switch from translation environment
– text editor or CAT tool
• to online terminology database
– slows down the translation process
• Integrating online terminology database
access into text translation environment is
highly valued by users

TTC 2010 surveyTTC 2010 survey
Data format

EuroTermBank @ MS WordEuroTermBank @ MS Word

Integrates
Hot keys
Available from context

Analyses text

Additional information: translation equivalents, definition, synonyms

EuroTermBank @ MemoQEuroTermBank @ MemoQ

SharedShared
NO wheel inventingNO wheel inventing

Storing terminology online

Open Terminology PlatformOpen Terminology Platform

EvolutionEvolution
From terminology database to terminology serviceFrom terminology database to terminology service

Thank you!Thank you!
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tatiana.gornostay@tilde.lv

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