Building a Domain-Specific French-Korean Lexicon

Building a Domain-Specific French-Korean Lexicon Aesun YOON Language Information Lab., Dept. of French & Dept. of Cognitive Science, Pusan National University San 30, Jang-jeon-dong, Geum-jeong-gu, Pusan, 609-7.35, Rep. of Korea asyoon@pusan.ac.kr Abstract Korean government has adopted the French TGV as a high-speed transportation system and the first service is scheduled at the end of 2003. TGV-relevant documents are consisted of huge volumes, of which over than 76% has been translated in English. A large part of the English version is, however, incomprehensible without referring to the original French version. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate how DiET 2.5, a lexicon builder, makes it possible to build with ease domain-specific terminology lexicon that may contain multimedia and multilingual data with multi-layered logical information. We believe our wok shows an important step in enlarging the language scope and the development of electronic lexica, and in providing the flexibility of defining any type of the DTD and the interconnectivity among collaborators. As an application of DiET 2.5, we would like to build a TGV-relevant lexicon in the near future. 1� Introduction Korean government has chosen the French TGV as a high-speed transportation system and the first service is scheduled at the end of 2003. TGV-relevant documents are consisted of 700 thousands pages, of which 170 thousands pages are written only in French language and the rest has been translated in English. A few locomotive engineers or railroad officers have reached a certain level of proficiency in comprehending French. As a language itself, English has more advantages to be better understood than French in Korea. Unfortunately however, a large part of the English version is not comprehensible without referring to the original French version. The successful translation of manuals of high-tech machines needs (1) the fluency in object and target languages, (2) and the expert knowledge in the specific domain in question. It is hard, however, to find out human translators who have both of those 2 totally different capacities. The ideal situation might be that a pair of the language expert and the domain expert work together. But it is certainly a time-consuming and costly job, if there are a great number of object documents. The time effectiveness is a very important factor in the translation of manuals, since the new technology described in the manuals might be no longer valuable some time after. One of the solutions for the efficient and effective translation consists in classifying those pair works in 3 steps, provided those experts are equipped with appropriate tools. In the first step, the language experts translate the target documents into the first and rough version of the object language, with the domain-specific terminology lexicon. In the second step, the domain experts, who have not a good mastery of the object language, can examine the correctness of contextual meaning of roughly translated documents, using the bilingual or multilingual lexicon. In the third and final step, both experts can focus on deciphering jointly the incomprehensible parts. These processes could be …

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