Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija „Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges“

172 J. Gaivenytė-Butler | International Scientific Conference Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges JOlaNta GaIvENytė-BUtlER Institute of Lithuanian Language On 12-13 July 2010, Dublin City University (Dub-2010 Presenting Terminology and scientific conference TKE Online: models and Challenges. TKE conferences Knowledge engineering resources lin city university) hosted the international (International conference of Terminology and Knowledge Engineering) are organized by GTW (Gesellschaft für Terminologie und Wissenstransfer – Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer) in cooperation with a university in a European country. Founded in 1986 in Germany, the association brings together institutions whose activities are related to the computerized creation, development and dissemination of terminology and knowledge. The ninth TKE conference was organized by GTW together with Fiontar, a division of Dublin City University. Fiontar – Dcu’s Gaelic language teaching and research unit, established in 1993. It develops electronic Irish language resources – textbooks, web tools, the national terminology database Focal, the national placename database Logainm and the Irish language biography database ainm. The conference was attended by speakers from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The conference participants were welcomed by Dcu President Prof. Brian Maccraith, Fiontar Director Dr. caoilfhionna Nic Pháidín and conference organizers Fionnuala de Barra cusak is Úna Bhreathnach. On the first day of the conference, the work was divided into six sections: knowledge acquisition, coding and lexical information, definitions, terminology planning and resources, educational and legal terminology creation and terminology management. Terminology | 2010 | 17 173 Pilar León Araúz ir Arianne Reimerink iš Granados universiteto (Ispani- (ja) Knowledge extraction and multidimensionality in the environmental domain, which discussed the application of corpus pattern analysis (cPA) to contextual multidimensionality and the development of criteria for the identification of reliable knowledge patterns (KPs) in the terminological knowledge base EcoLexicon. Marie-claude L’homme, Patrick Leroyer and Benoît Robichaud, representing the University of Montreal (Canada) and Aarhus Business School (Denmark), presented a presentation entitled advanced encoding for multilingual access in a Terminological Data Base: a matter of Balance, which presented new functionalities implemented in the terminological database that facilitate access to multilingual data and allow for more efficient editing. The user can find matches not only for key words, but also for terms that are semantically related to them. The methods proposed by the speakers are based on formal coding of lexical functions. In the joint presentation Generating Lexical Information for Terminology in a Bioinformatics Ontology by Hammad Afzal (National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan), Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland) and Philipp Cimian (University of Bylefeld, Germany) the experience of semi-automatic lexicalisation of bioinformatics ontologies using the LexInfo model was shared, while Michal Boleslav Měchura from Fiontar spoke about the difficulties in determining the meaning of English polyword terms and their equivalents in other languages. In his paper When Definitions are not enough, he argues that definitions, although important in terminology, do not reveal the inner structure of a polyword in sufficient detail. To facilitate this task, the speaker proposed a compositional term diagram (cTD) similar to a syntax tree. María Pozzi from El colegio de Mexico made a presentation on Communicational model for the Terminological Definition. Abolfazl Zarnikhi (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) in his presentation Towards a model for Terminology Planning raised questions about how and why terminology planning differs from other types of planning. 174 J. Gaivenytė-Butler | International Scientific Conference Presenting terminology... in some organizations are based on the same principles, but they set their own rules, how much these rules can be common, how firmly terminology planning activities are based on terminology theory, and whether it is possible to create a model of terminology planning. The speaker compared the terminology activities of the Catalan Terminology Centre Termcat and the Persian Academy of Language and Literature and proposed a model of terminology planning. Juditha Kast-Aigner from Vienna University of Economics and Business presented a diachronic analysis of the terminology of development cooperation used in European Union documents using textbooks, revealing the changes in concepts and terms in this field. Albina Auksoriūte and Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler (Institute of Lithuanian Language) presented The electronic resources of Lithuanian Terminology, which presented the most important Lithuanian terminology resources available on the Internet. The main topics of discussion were the Terms Bank of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Language Terminology, their structure, search possibilities, advantages and disadvantages. The presentation Irish Language Terms for Legal Translation by Fionnuala Cloke and Gearóid Ó Cleircín, representing the conference hosts, Fiontar, provided an overview of the creation and development of resources for Irish legal terminology. The aim of the project presented is to make Irish terminology used in legislation available online to the general public and especially to translators. The speakers discussed the four stages of the project (creation of parallel textbook, selection of terms, recognition of Irish terms and parts of bilingual concordance, editing of term articles) and presented the methods and tools used. Prepared terms are uploaded to the Irish national terminology database focal.ie. Tegau Andrews from the University of Bangor (UK) presented the efforts to promote the use of Welsh in higher education and professional activities, and to develop and standardise Welsh terminology. Her co-authored paper, Developing Welsh Language Terminology in the Higher Education Sector in Wales, introduced the terminology application maes T and the development of online terminology dictionaries. Estelle Delpech (Lingua et Machina) and Béatrice Daille (University of Nantes, France) presented Dealing with Lexicon acquired from Comparable Corpora: Validation and exchange. Terminology | 2010 | 17 175 defendable textbooks: verification and exchange) discussed the problems arising when working with dictionaries automatically derived from comparative textbooks. A term checker developed specifically for such dictionaries was presented, and TBX format was proposed for data exchange. Henrik Nilsson from Terminologicentrum (TNc) (Sweden) shared his experience of creating the Swedish national term bank Rikstermbanken, talked about the attempts to adapt different types of dictionaries to a uniform term bank format, about the principles of the structure of term banks and their possible disagreement with a user-friendly format of presentation of terms. His presentation Layout on Different Terms? provides examples from various term banks and terminology management systems. The first day of the conference was concluded with a presentation by guest speaker Gerhard Budina from the University of Vienna entitled Cognitive aspects of Designing, Generating, and Using Domain Ontologies, and the second day began with a presentation by Michal Boleslav Měchura and Brian Ó Raghallaigh from Fiontar entitled How to Build a Termbase for 500,000 Users (and Live to Tell the Story). The speakers presented the Irish national terminology database focal.ie, which was launched in 2006 and has enjoyed great popularity. In the opinion of the speakers, the database is so popular because it is user-friendly (easy search, the presentation of terms is more like a dictionary than a database). Subsequently, the papers were presented in four sections on term extraction, terminology training, terminology resources and knowledge presentation. Dirk De hertog, Chris Heylen, Dirk Speelman (all from the University of Leuven, Belgium) and Hendrik Kockaert (Lessius University College, Belgium) presented a Variational Linguistic approach to Term extraction, which focused on Stable Lexical Marker Analysis used in automatic term selection. Patrick Drouin and Frédéric Dolly (OLST, Université de Montréal) in their presentation Corpus Genres and Contrastive automatic Term extraction discussed the influence of the textbook genre on the results of automatic term extraction. The speakers presented the application of Contrastive Automatic Term Extraction (CAT) to the determination of word terminology. 176 J. Gaivenytė-Butler | International Scientific Conference Presenting terminology... cATE) method, when the word frequency is compared in two texts of different nature (general and specialized). Georgeta ciobanu (Politechnic University of Timisoara, Romania) presented her presentation arGs in Teaching Terminology, in which she shared her thoughts on how Variable Reality Games (ARGs) can be used to introduce students to terminology and teach them terminology, and presented the Web 2.0 based educational game theSaviours. Another presentation was devoted to terminology training. Anna Aguilar-Amat, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao, Marta Pahisa-Solé and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón from the Autonomous University of Barcelona presented BaCUS (Base de Coneixement Universitari – University Knowledge Base): 14 Years on Terminology applied to Translation, a knowledge base for translation students that can also be used for translation, conceptual, ontological and textual research. Chris Heylen (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Hendrik Kockaert (Lessius University College, Belgium) presented The TermWise Knowledge Platform: an efficient Translation and Terminology management Suite for Legal Translation in Belgium, an interdisciplinary project for the translation of legal texts. The speakers discussed the stages of bilingual terminology knowledge extraction from textbooks, the user interface, its requirements and the envisaged possibilities. The presentation was followed by a presentation of the TermWise Knowledge Platform. Another terminology resource – the terminological knowledge base ecoLexicon was presented in the presentation ecoLexicon: Contextualizing an environmental Ontology by Pilar León Araúz and Pedro Javier Magaña Redondo from the University of Granada. The presentation by Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, University of Latvia), Signe Rirdance (University of Latvia) and Tatjana Gornostay (Tilde) entitled “reaching the User: Targeted Delivery of Federated Content in multilingual Termbank” presented the results of the online Eurotermbank user survey. The importance of consolidated presentation of content from multiple sources was emphasised. Anita Nuopponen (University of Vaasa, Finland) in the presentation Transmission of Knowledge about Concept relations in Terminological Vocabulary Terminology | 2010 | 17 177 (Transmission of knowledge about conceptual relationships in terminology dictionaries) are presented the results of the research of the Internet telephony terminology dictionary. It was discussed how information about the relationships between concepts and concept systems can be conveyed and used in terminology dictionaries. Antrą konferencijos dieną taip pat buvo surengta bendra visų konferendiscussion of the conference participants on the presentation of terminology and knowledge engineering resources on the Internet, hosted by Henrik Nilsson from TNc. Several conference participants presented the terminology and knowledge databases created in their institutions, showed their possibilities. The conference ended with the presentation of the Eugen Wüster Prize. Since 1997, the International Terminology Information Centre Infoterm, together with the Eugen Wüster Archive of the University of Vienna and the Austrian National Library, has awarded this prize every three years to a terminologist whose work has been of great significance for terminology or related fields of research, teaching, practical methods or international cooperation. The Eugen Wüster Prize has been awarded to Professors Herbert Picht, Christer Laurén, Juan C. Sager, Amelia de Irazazabal Nerpell, Robert Dubuc, Maria Teresa Cabré, Alan K. Melby. The 2010 Eugen Wüster Prize was awarded to Prof. Sue Ellen Wright from the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Kent State University (USA) and Prof. Klaus-Dirk Schmitz from the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne (Germany). Before and after the conference, practical seminars were held on the certification of terminology work, the development of the main terminology work standard ISO 704 Terminology work – principles and methods, terminology management models, their application and changes, the ISO concept database (ISO/cDB) and the TK 37 data category register ISOcat, interfaces between terminology and ontologies. Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference 2010: Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges (edited by Úna Bhreathnach and Fionnuala de Barra-cusack, ISBN 978-0-9566314-0-4). Retrieved 2007-12-11. Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler Institute of Lithuanian Language P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania Email: [email protected]