The role of terminology in content management has often been underrated. However, supplying key product terms to translation services several weeks before a translation shipment arrives not only reduces translation time and improves translation quality, but also saves effort (and thus money) by reducing duplication of work by the translation services. Getting the key terms ready in a timely manner can be difficult without some automation. This paper describes the process of proposing, designing, developing, and deploying a terminology extraction tool. The tool extracts nouns and noun combinations, excludes non-translatable terms and known product terms, and displays a context for each extracted item. This is done based on full parsing of the text with a broad-coverage parser. The tool is made available to users on a Web server.
By: Arendse Bernth, Michael C. McCord, Kara Warburton
Published in: RC22615 in 2002
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