1. EU Terminology: Building text-related & translation-oriented projects for IATE
20th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes – University of Vienna
8-10 July 2015
Rodolfo Maslias – European Parliament
DG TRAD – Terminology Coordination

2. Terminology Coordination in the EU Institutions
Translators covering all 24 EU languages insert terminology into the interactive internal IATE
Each Unit appoints a number of terminologists
Terminology tasks make part of the workflow
The Terminology Coordination Unit works on language independent level and cooperates with the other Institutions

3. IATE Management Group: 13 Institutions Task Forces and Working Groups
IMG
Group of interinstitutional coordinators
IATE Handbook Task Force
Data Entry Task Force
EurTerm Task Force
Data Clean-Up Task Force
IATE/Studio Integration Task Force
Normative Terminology Task Force
Task Force for Interinst. Cooperation in the field of terminology (ended early 2014)
IATE Support & Development Team
Interinstitutional Toponymy Group
Interinstitutional Taxonomy Group

4. IATE public
A valuable resource worldwide for translators - average of 3500 clicks/hour
The multilingual database with the biggest number of languages covering EU-relevant domains
Most used terminology database
Very positive promotion for EU Translation
Mentioned in most Terminology Conferences and used in academia for research purposes
Available in downloadable TBX files on Open Data Portal (12,371 downloads as of 1/4/2015, stats retrieved on )
Inserted in several search engines and plug-ins
Producing precious feed-back

5. Plus terms in some 120 non-EU languages (internal version)
Number of terms
en - English
fr - French
de - German
it - Italian
694862
nl - Dutch
689419
es - Spanish
615831
da - Danish
601674
el - Greek
519485
pt - Portuguese
507256
fi - Finnish
331148
sv - Swedish
314966
pl - Polish
65836
la - Latin
64026
ga - Irish
63285
lt - Lithuanian
57913
et - Estonian
49435
sl - Slovenian
46538
mt - Maltese
44820
cs - Czech
42576
sk - Slovak
41128
ro - Romanian
40841
bg - Bulgarian
38806
hu - Hungarian
37674
lv - Latvian
35630
hr - Croatian
11401
IATE Public version
Number of terms on 1/4/2015
24 EU languages + Latin
Plus terms in some 120 non-EU languages (internal version)
Some 600 terms added each day
new terms added in 2014

6. Download IATE in TBX from termcoord.eu

7. Integrating terminology in SDL Studio

8. Automatic integration of terminology in the translation environment
Full entry view
with IATE link
Term verifier for obsolete and deprecated terms

9. Interinstitutional terminology work Euramis/Translation memory vs
Interinstitutional terminology work Euramis/Translation memory vs. IATE Terminology

10. Text-related Proactive Terminology Workflow for the terminological
pretreatment of an
EU legislative act:
Early warning by
the drafters
(political bodies)
Term-extraction
Creation of bilingual
text related glossary
Adding IATE export
Insertion into the
CAT-tool as
“Termbase”

11. Interinstitutional terminology work Terminology workflow
An original document arrives for translation
Terminology coordinator goes through the document and manually extracts problematic terminology. Compiles list
Terms from the list are then searched for in IATE
If search returns results, verify that the concept is the same
If result refers to the same concept, then update the entry as necessary
If not, or if no result comes up, create a new entry in English (or in any other anchor language)

12. Interinstitutional Terminology Projects Workflow
One EU-Terminology Coordination launches a project
The information is shared on EurTerm

13. Interinstitutional Terminology Projects1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Identification new concept
Creation IATE entry
Completion 24 languages
Addition metadata
Updating IATE entry
Finalisation IATE entry

14. EurTerm: collaborative space for terminology projects

15. EurTerm: terminology projects (details)

16. Some examples of specialisation by institution
Domain
Translation Centre
Agency names
ECHA-Term (REACH terminology)
EMCDDA core terminology
Financial supervision authorities (EBA/EIOPA)
Council
Toponymy
Defence
Justice and Home Affairs
International conventions and agreements
Commission
Community programmes, initiatives and actions
White and Green Books
Budget
Aquatic animals and plants
European Parliament
Human rights
Gender rights
Humanitarian law
Parliamentary procedures

17. Interinstitutional resource sharing and terminology collaborative platform

18. EurTerm Language Wikis
TermCoord also created a wiki for each language community, accessible from the portal, which facilitates cooperation in terminology between institutions and with their national linguistic bodies

19. A customized wiki for each language

20. Collaborative spaces for terminology work for each language community

21. Access EurTerm and your language wiki
Ask TermCoord for an external ECAS account

22. IATE Projects with Universities
TermCoord inserts the glossaries in IATE
Signing an agreement with DG TRAD EP-TermCoord
The terms are validated in Translation Units
Common choice of domain
TermCoord provides the material and instructions
The projects are published in termcoord.eu
Universities submit their lists of terms
Universities prepare an action plan
Students work under the supervision of Professors

24. Special gift for the users of termcoord.eu

25. termcoord.eu Terminology Toolbox
EU shares its Terminology Resources
termcoord.eu Terminology Toolbox

26. TermCoord in the projects for a future-oriented terminology
A common
Ontology
The project “Big Multilingual Terminological Data Space”
Presented at the Summit of Riga on the Future of the Multilingual Digital Single Market

27. All Terminology in all languages just with one click
Click on a button to proceed to a meta search in all reliable terminology databases of international organisations, academy and industry
Use cloud computing and linked data technology
Added value:
Avoid waste of resources
Resolve ambiguity
Consult the specialists
Convert our GlossaryLinks in a an open meta search tool in the cloud

28. Thank you for your attention
…and greetings from Luxembourg!