Open Terminology Management and Sharing Toolkit for Federation of Terminology Databases

Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), pages 6310–6316 Marseille, 20-25 June 2022 © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0 6310 Open Terminology Management and Sharing Toolkit for Federation of Terminology Databases Andis Lagzdin¸ˇs†, Uldis Silin¸ˇs†, M¯arcis Pinnis†‡, Toms Bergmanis†‡, Art¯urs Vasil¸evskis† and Andrejs Vasil¸jevs†‡ †Tilde / Vien¯ıbas gatve 75A, Riga, Latvia ‡Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia / Rain¸a bulv. 19, Riga, Latvia {name.surname}@tilde.lv Abstract Consolidated access to current and reliable terms from different subject fields and languages is necessary for content creators and translators. Terminology is also needed in AI applications such as machine translation, speech recognition, information extraction, and other natural language processing tools. In this work, we facilitate standards-based sharing and management of terminology resources by providing an open terminology management solution – the EuroTermBank Toolkit. It allows organisations to manage and search their terms, create term collections, and share them within and outside the organisation by participating in the network of federated databases. The data curated in the federated databases are automatically shared with EuroTermBank, the largest multilingual terminology resource in Europe, allowing translators and language service providers as well as researchers and students to access terminology resources in their most current version. Keywords: terminology, terminology management, termbank, terminology sharing, terminology database 1. Introduction Language evolves: new words are coined, existing words change their meaning, and some even become unused. New concepts and terms that denote them are created every day, but many older concepts and their denotations rapidly become obsolete. Consequently, terminological data become obsolete over time if not regularly updated. Individual term collections are usu- ally maintained by the respective institution, such as an industrial company, an academic centre, or a public administration. Still, many institutions lack a proper terminology management system and struggle to main- tain their terms current. This has practical and finan- cial consequences as consolidated access to current and reliable terms from different sources is necessary not only for content creators and translators but also for ar- tificial intelligence (AI) applications. Terminology management is even more challenging for termbanks that provide access to term collections aggregated from different institutions. Although termi- nology work benefits from a rigorous standardisation process and essential standards developed by ISO TC37 (Vasiljevs and Borzovs, 2006), insufficient supporting tools and infrastructure as well as different terminology management practices (including what data in what format is being stored) that are in place across Europe are factors that hinder terminology data sharing in a timely fashion (Gornostay, 2010). In this paper, we describe a solution to these challenges that was created for the largest aggregation of Euro- pean terminology resources, namely EuroTermBank1 (Vasiljevs et al., 2008) and institutions participating in 1https://www.eurotermbank.com/ Figure 1: Federated nodes linked to the EuroTermBank Federated Network. the EuroTermBank Federated Network. We present the EuroTermBank Toolkit (ETBT), an open terminology management toolkit for the EuroTermBank Federated Network that allows organisations to manage their term collections and share them within and outside the or- ganisation. The motivation …

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