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

International Scientific Conference Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges JOLANTA GAIVENYTĖ-BUTLER Institute of the Lithuanian Language On 12–13 August 2010, the international scientific conference TKE 2010 Presenting Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Resources Online: Models and Challenges (Presenting Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Resources Online: Models and Challenges). was held at Dublin City University. TKE conferences (International Conference of Terminology and Knowledge Engineering) are organized by GTW (Gesellschaft für Terminologie und Wissenstransfer – Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer) together with a university in a European country. The association, founded in Germany in 1986, 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 unit of Dublin City University. Fiontar is DCU’s Irish-language (Gaelic) teaching and research unit, established in 1993. It creates electronic Irish-language resources—corpora, online tools, a national terminology database Focal, a national place-name database Logainm, and an Irish-language biographical database Ainm. Presenters from Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, France, Romania, Finland, Sweden, and Germany took part in the conference. The participants were welcomed by DCU President Professor Brian MacCraith, Fiontar Director Dr. Caoilfhionna Nic Pháidín, and the conference organizers Fionnuala de Barra Cusak and Úna Bhreathnach. On the first day of the conference, work took place in six sessions devoted to knowledge acquisition, encoding and lexical information, definitions, terminology planning and its resources, the creation of educational and legal terms, and terminology management. 172 J. Gaivenytė-Butler | Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija Presenting terminology... In their presentation Knowledge Extraction and Multidimensionality in the Environmental Domain (Knowledge Extraction and Multidimensionality in the Environmental Domain), Pilar León Araúz and Arianne Reimerink of the University of Granada (Spain) discussed the application of Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) to the study of contextual multidimensionality and to improving the criteria for identifying reliable knowledge patterns (KPs) in the EcoLexicon terminological knowledge base. In their presentation Advanced Encoding for Multilingual Access in a Terminological Data Base: A Matter of Balance (Advanced Encoding for Multilingual Access in a Terminological Data Base: A Matter of Balance), Marie-Claude L’Homme, Patrick Leroyer, and Benoît Robichaud, representing the University of Montreal (Canada) and Aarhus School of Business (Denmark), presented new functional capabilities implemented in a terminological database, facilitating access to multilingual data and enabling more efficient editing. Users can find equivalents not only for headwords, but also for terms semantically related to them. The methods proposed by the presenters are based on the formal encoding of lexical functions. In their joint presentation Generating Lexical Information for Terminology in a Bioinformatics Ontology (Generating Lexical Information for Terminology in a Bioinformatics Ontology), Hammad Afzal (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan), Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland), and Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany) shared their experience in the semi-automatic lexicalization of a bioinformatics ontology using the LexInfo model. Michał Bolesław Męchura of Fiontar spoke about the difficulties of determining the meaning of English multiword terms and their equivalents in other languages. In his presentation When Definitions are not Enough (When Definitions are not Enough), he argued that definitions, although very important in terminology, do not reveal the internal structure of a multiword term in sufficient detail. The unclear structure of such a term makes it difficult to select equivalents in other languages. To facilitate this task, the presenter proposed a compositional term diagram (CTD), similar to a syntax tree. María Pozzi of El Colegio de México prepared a presentation Communicational Model for the Terminological Definition (Communicational Model for the Terminological Definition). In his presentation Towards a Model for Terminology Planning (Towards a Model for Terminology Planning), Abolfazl Zarnikhi (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) raised questions about how and why terminology planning differs- Terminologija | 2010 | 17 1 7 3 …organizations are based on the same principles, but set their own rules: how broadly those rules can be shared, how firmly terminology planning activity is grounded in terminology theory, and whether a terminology planning model can be developed. The speaker compared the terminology activities of TermCat, the Terminology Centre of Catalonia, and the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, and proposed a terminology planning model. In her presentation Developing and Using Terminology Resources: The Case of EU Terminology (Terminologijos išteklių plėtojimas ir naudojimas: ES terminijos atvejis), Juditha Kast-Aigner of the Vienna University of Economics and Business presented a corpus-based diachronic analysis of the terminology of development cooperation used in European Union documents, revealing changes in the concepts and terms in this field. The presentation The Electronic Resources of Lithuanian Terminology (Elektroniniai lietuvių terminijos ištekliai) by Albina Auksoriūtė and Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler (Institute of the Lithuanian Language) introduced the most important Lithuanian terminology resources available online. The presentation focused mainly on the Terms Bank of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Term Database, their structure, search capabilities, advantages, and shortcomings. Fionnuala Cloke and Gearóid Ó Cleircín, representing the conference hosts, Fiontar, gave a presentation Irish Language Terms for Legal Translation (Teisės tekstų vertimų airiški terminai) reviewing the creation and development of resources for Irish terminology used in legislation. The project presented aims to make Irish terminology used in legislation available online to the general public, and especially to translators. The speakers discussed its four stages (creating a parallel corpus, extracting terms, identifying Irish terms and parts of the bilingual concordance, and editing term entries), and presented the methods and tools used. The terms prepared are added to Ireland's national terminology database, focal.ie. Tegau Andrews of Bangor University (United Kingdom) introduced efforts to promote the use of Welsh in higher education and professional activities, and to develop and standardize Welsh terminology. Her co-authored presentation, Developing Welsh Language Terminology in the Higher Education Sector in Wales (Vališkos terminijos kūrimas ir plėtra Velso aukštojo mokslo sektoriuje), presented the applied terminology program Maes T and online dictionaries under development. In their presentation, Dealing with Lexicon Acquired from Comparable Corpora: Validation and Exchange (Darbas su žodynu, gautu iš paly-, Estelle Delpech (Lingua et Machina) and Béatrice Daille (University of Nantes, France) 174 J. Gaivenytė-Butler | Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija Presenting terminology... ginamųjų tekstynų: patikra ir mainai), they discussed the problems that arise when working with lexicons automatically derived from comparable corpora. They presented a term validation tool developed specifically for such lexicons and proposed the TBX format for data exchange. Henrik Nilsson of Terminologicentrum (TNC) (Sweden) shared his experience in developing Sweden's national term bank, Rikstermbanken. He discussed attempts to adapt various types of dictionaries to a unified term-bank format, the structural principles of term banks, and the potential mismatch between these principles and a user-friendly format for presenting terms. His presentation, Layout on Different Terms? (Skirtingas išdėstymas?), provided examples from various term banks and terminology management systems. The first conference day concluded with the invited speaker Gerhard Budin of the University of Vienna, who presented Cognitive Aspects of Designing, Generating, and Using Domain Ontologies (Kognityviniai sričių ontologijų projektavimo, kūrimo ir naudojimo aspektai). The second conference day began with a presentation by Fiontar representatives Michal Boleslav Měchura and Brian Ó Raghallaigh, How to Build a Termbase for 500,000 Users (and Live to Tell the Story) (Kaip sukurti terminų bazę 500 000 vartotojų (ir išgyventi)). The speakers introduced Ireland's national terminology database, focal.ie, which went into operation in 2006 and became extremely popular. In the speakers' view, the database is so popular because it is user-friendly (searching is easy, and terms are presented more like a dictionary than a database). Later, papers were presented in four sessions devoted to term extraction, terminology teaching, terminology resources, and knowledge presentation. The presentation A Variational Linguistic Approach to Term Extraction (Variacinės lingvistikos požiūris į terminų išskyrimą) by Dirk De Hertog, Kris Heylen, Dirk Speelman (all from the University of Leuven, Belgium), and Hendrik Kockaert (Lessius University College, Belgium) focused on Stable Lexical Marker Analysis, which is used for automatic term extraction. In the presentation Corpus Genres and Contrastive Automatic Term Extraction (Tekstyno žanrai ir gretinamasis automatinis terminų išskyrimas), Patrick Drouin and Frédéric Dolli (OLST, University of Montreal) discussed the influence of corpus genre on automatic term extraction results. The speakers presented a Contrastive Automatic Term Extraction method used to determine the terminological status of words— Terminologija | 2010 | 17 1 7 5 CATE) method, in which the frequency of a word is compared in two different types of corpus (general and specialized). Georgeta Ciobanu (Timișoara Polytechnic University, Romania) gave a presentation ARGs in Teaching Terminology (ARGs mokant terminologijos), in which she shared her thoughts on how alternate reality games (ARGs) can be used to introduce school pupils and students to terminology and teach them terminological vocabulary, and presented the Web 2.0-based educational game theSaviours. Another presentation was devoted to teaching terminology. In their presentation BACUS (Base de Coneixement Universitari – University Knowledge Base): 14 Years on Terminology Applied to Translation (BACUS: 14 metų vertimui naudojamos terminologijos), Anna Aguilar-Amat, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao, Marta Pahisa-Solé and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón of the Autonomous University of Barcelona discussed presenting the research results of translation students in the BACUS knowledge base. This database can also be used for research on translation, concepts, ontologies and corpora. The presentation by Kris Heylen (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Hendrik Kockaert (Lessius University College, Belgium), The TermWise Knowledge Platform: an Efficient Translation and Terminology Management Suite for Legal Translation in Belgium (TermWise Knowledge Platform: efektyvus Belgijos teisės tekstų vertimo ir terminijos tvarkybos programų komplektas), introduced the interdisciplinary project TermWise Knowledge Platform, intended for the translation of legal texts. The speakers discussed the stages involved in extracting bilingual terminological knowledge from corpora and introduced the user interface, its requirements and anticipated capabilities. Another terminology resource—a terminological knowledge base, EcoLexicon—was presented by Pilar León Araúz and Pedro Javier Magaña Redondo of the University of Granada in their presentation EcoLexicon: Contextualizing an Environmental Ontology (EcoLexicon: aplinkos apsaugos ontologijos kontekstualizavimas). The presentation Reaching the User: Targeted Delivery of Federated Content in Multilingual Termbank (Bandymas pasiekti vartotoją: tikslinis jungtinio turinio pateikimas daugiakalbiame terminų banke) by Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, University of Latvia), Signe Rirdance (University of Latvia) and Tatjana Gornostav (Tilde) introduced the results of an online survey of EuroTermBank users. The importance of consolidating and presenting content from multiple sources was emphasized. In her presentation Transmission of Knowledge about Concept Relations in Terminological Vocabularies, Anita Nuopponen (University of Vaasa, Finland) 176 J. Gaivenytė-Butler | Tarptautinė mokslinė konferencija Presenting terminology... (Žinių apie sąvokų ryšius perdavimas terminų žodynuose) presented the results of a study of an online telephony terminology dictionary. She discussed how information about relations between concepts and concept systems can be conveyed and used in terminology dictionaries. On the second day of the conference, a plenary discussion was also held for all conference participants on presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online, chaired by Henrik Nilsson of TNC. Several participants presented terminology and knowledge databases developed at their institutions and demonstrated their capabilities. The conference concluded with the presentation of the Eugen Wüster Prize. Since 1997, this prize has been awarded every three years by the International Information Centre for Terminology Infoterm, together with the Eugen Wüster Archive of the University of Vienna and the Austrian National Library, to a terminologist whose work has made a significant contribution to terminology or related fields in research, teaching, the development of practical methods or the promotion of international cooperation. The Eugen Wüster Prize has been awarded to Professors Heribert Picht, Christer Laurén, Juan C. Sager, Amelia de Irazazabal Nerpel, Robert Dubuc, Maria Teresa Cabré and Alan K. Melby. The 2010 Eugen Wüster Prize was awarded to Professor Sue Ellen Wright of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University (USA) and Professor Klaus-Dirk Schmitz of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Workshops were held before and after the conference, covering certification of terminology work; revision of the principal terminology work standard, ISO 704 Terminology work – principles and methods (Terminologijos darbas. Principai ir metodai); terminology management models, their application and changes; the ISO Concept DataBase (ISO/CDB) and the ISOcat data category registry of ISO/TC 37; and the links between terminology and ontologies. The conference proceedings were published under the title Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference 2010: Presenting terminology and knowledge engineering resources online: models and challenges (eds. Úna Bhreathnach and Fionnuala de Barra-Cusack, ISBN 978-0-9566314-0-4). Received 2007-12-11 Jolanta Gaivenytė-Butler Institute of the Lithuanian Language P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius Email: [email protected] Terminologija | 2010 | 17 177