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Terminology management within a translation quality assurance process

  • Monika Popiolek
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Handbook of Terminology
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Abstract

Much has been said and written about terminology management in recent years from the terminologists’ perspective but relatively little has been done to demonstrate the role and methodology for managing terminology in the context of actual translation quality assurance (QA) process. In this chapter I will try to define the place and role of terminology within the QA process and describe how terminology management fits in and affects QA of the translation process, both at the systemic and tool level. I will also present a standard methodology, based on industry best practice, for managing terminology within the translation QA process at all the key stages, including some typical challenges faced by Translation Service Providers (TSPs).

Abstract

Much has been said and written about terminology management in recent years from the terminologists’ perspective but relatively little has been done to demonstrate the role and methodology for managing terminology in the context of actual translation quality assurance (QA) process. In this chapter I will try to define the place and role of terminology within the QA process and describe how terminology management fits in and affects QA of the translation process, both at the systemic and tool level. I will also present a standard methodology, based on industry best practice, for managing terminology within the translation QA process at all the key stages, including some typical challenges faced by Translation Service Providers (TSPs).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Foreword xvii
  5. Part I. Fundamentals for term base development
  6. Terms and specialized vocabulary 3
  7. Frames as a framework for terminology 14
  8. How to build terminology science? 34
  9. Terminology and lexicography 45
  10. Intensional definitions 60
  11. Enumerations count 82
  12. Associative relations and instrumentality in causality 101
  13. Ontological definition 128
  14. Domain specificity 153
  15. Getting to the core of a terminological project 180
  16. Part II. Methods and technology
  17. Automatic Term Extraction 203
  18. Terminology tools 222
  19. Concept modeling vs. data modeling in practice 250
  20. Machine translation, translation memory and terminology management 276
  21. Part III. Management and quality assurance (QA)
  22. Terminology work and crowdsourcing 291
  23. Terminology and translation 304
  24. Managing terminology projects 324
  25. Terminology management within a translation quality assurance process 341
  26. Managing terminology in commercial environments 360
  27. TBX: A terminology exchange format for the translation and localization industry 393
  28. Part IV. Case studies
  29. Using frame semantics to build a bilingual lexical resource on legal terminology 427
  30. Terminology and localization 451
  31. Part V. Language and terminology
  32. Language policy and terminology in South Africa 467
  33. Language policies and terminology policies in Canada 489
  34. Part VI. Terminology and interculturality
  35. The social and organizational context of terminology work 507
  36. Index 521
https://doi.org/10.1075/hot.1.ter6

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Foreword xvii
  5. Part I. Fundamentals for term base development
  6. Terms and specialized vocabulary 3
  7. Frames as a framework for terminology 14
  8. How to build terminology science? 34
  9. Terminology and lexicography 45
  10. Intensional definitions 60
  11. Enumerations count 82
  12. Associative relations and instrumentality in causality 101
  13. Ontological definition 128
  14. Domain specificity 153
  15. Getting to the core of a terminological project 180
  16. Part II. Methods and technology
  17. Automatic Term Extraction 203
  18. Terminology tools 222
  19. Concept modeling vs. data modeling in practice 250
  20. Machine translation, translation memory and terminology management 276
  21. Part III. Management and quality assurance (QA)
  22. Terminology work and crowdsourcing 291
  23. Terminology and translation 304
  24. Managing terminology projects 324
  25. Terminology management within a translation quality assurance process 341
  26. Managing terminology in commercial environments 360
  27. TBX: A terminology exchange format for the translation and localization industry 393
  28. Part IV. Case studies
  29. Using frame semantics to build a bilingual lexical resource on legal terminology 427
  30. Terminology and localization 451
  31. Part V. Language and terminology
  32. Language policy and terminology in South Africa 467
  33. Language policies and terminology policies in Canada 489
  34. Part VI. Terminology and interculturality
  35. The social and organizational context of terminology work 507
  36. Index 521
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