Bridging the Gap – EuroTermBank Terminology Delivered to Users’ Environment

Bridging the Gap – EuroTermBank Terminology Delivered to Users’ Environment Tatiana Gornostay Tilde, Riga, Latvia tatiana.gornostay@tilde.lv Signe Rirdance signe.rirdance@gmail.com Andrejs Vasiljevs Tilde, Riga, Latvia andrejs.vasiljevs@tilde.lv Roberts Rozis Tilde, Riga, Latvia roberts.rozis@tilde.lv Abstract The paper presents EuroTermBank Ter- minology Add-in – an innovative multi- lingual terminology translation tool. This tool integrates the federated terminology of the currently over 100 EuroTermBank terminology resources in Microsoft Word environment and accesses over 2 million terminology entries in 27 European lan- guages. The new tool provides a range of functions necessary and useful for target user groups improving productivity and effectiveness in the process of transla- tion. User feedback shows definite inter- est in the new tool which is considered to be extremely useful and efficient for translation needs. Beta versions of Eu- roTermBank Terminology Add-in for Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 can be freely downloaded from the EuroTerm- Bank multilingual terminology portal. 1 Introduction Typically, translators spend 30-60% of total translation time on terminology research. There- fore, it is of vital importance to ensure that they can use all the required terminology resources in the right format and in the right environment. Increasingly, terminology research is done using sources that are available on the Internet. Cur- rently, translators spend a lot of time inefficient- ly, searching and processing information from multiple online sources, copy-pasting or chang- ing the format to the one that they require in their work environment. Spending time on technical aspects instead of focusing on true terminology © 2010 European Association for Machine Translation. research results in cost inefficiencies and reduced translation quality. Faced with difficulties in accessing the terms they need and participating in collaborative ac- tivities for creation of new terms, many transla- tors create their own terminology resources. They typically store these terms in a spreadsheet or other proprietary formats that are not efficient- ly connected to a multitude of translation envi- ronments that they might use. Moreover, these resources are not shared with other translators and potential users. This results in redundant work or even reduced translation quality and does not bring additional value to the creator of this custom terminology. To increase efficiency and quality of transla- tion, translators need an easy access to multiple terminology databases, facilities to enable col- laborative efforts in creation of new terms, productivity tools to get necessary terms right from translation environment (Lengyel and Va- siljevs, 2008). There have been several efforts to provide rea- sonable solutions to support translators accessing multilingual terminology resources. For example, Quest tool brings consolidated terminology con- tent closer to its user and is used internally by translators in the DG for Translation of the Euro- pean Commission (European Commission Direc- torate-General for Translation, 2008). Other major consolidation effort of multilin- gual terminology is public multilingual terminol- ogy resources, such as EuroTermBank, database of federated terminology. It is targeted to a broad audience of translators, terminologists and other language workers. EuroTermBank is a rich source of consolidat- ed public terminology that provides access to content …

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