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Recent Advances in Viennese Terminology Science

Ass.Prof. Dr. Dagmar Gromann, Center for Translation Studies (CTS), University of Vienna

[email protected] eTransFair, 12 July 2019

• Philosophical foundations: • Leibniz: ideal language of science • Kant: constructionist concept theory • Bolzano, Brentano, Frege, etc. • Logical positivism, Vienna Circle • …..

• Eugen Wüster: • often described as founding father of terminology • originally electrical engineer • focus: prescriptive and concept-oriented terminology for

technology• Gerhard Budin:

• Professor of Translational Terminology Studies and Translation Technology at the Centre for Translation Studies (CTS)

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Terminology Science: Foundations

Recent Advances in Viennese Terminology Science, Dagmar Gromann12/07/2019

Definition:

Terminology Science has from its advent been an interdisciplinary field investigating principles and theories of • concepts, • concept systems, and • their designations

in specialized and professional domains.

• decompositional, structuralist approach to describing meaning in specialized communication• meaning organized by “concepts”

• epistemological view of concept as unit of knowledge or thought • defined by its relations to other concepts and essential and

sufficient characteristics in natural language • exists independent from any specific designation• detailed documentation of specialist expressions by

administrative and descriptive data categories • focus on the intension of the concept• target a very specific user group or community in a specific cultural

setting

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Concept-Oriented Terminologies


Source: https://xkcd.com/1322/

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Dictionary vs. Terminology

writtenRepresentation:“Einschlag”@de TermComponent:

“timber”

TermSection:“timber-cutting”

TermSection:“felling”

TermSection:“Einschlag”

LanguageSection:German

LanguageSection:English

TerminologicalEntry:“the cutting of trees”

Felling/LoggingElement of a character

Lightning strike

Hem in textile

Gender: masculineNumber: singularCase: nominative


Ontology: Einschlag

OntoLex

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CTS Terminology Science


Multilingual and MultimediaGlossary for Risk Management (MGRM)

• language varieties in terminology and translation• automated machine translation across all EU languages• language resource access for machine translation• multimodal language technology• interoperability by terminology• transfer of advances to training students

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Terminology Science: Advances


• From “Pallawatsch” to “Haberer” • Special Research Program (SFB) on German in Austria (“Deutsch in Österreich”, DiÖ)

• Variation: diversity and dynamics of German in Austria • Contact: contact of German in Austria with other languages • Perception: use and subjective perception of the German language in Austria

• Major outcomes: • systematic and detailed analysis of German in Austria with all its language varieties and contacts from

all linguistic perspectives • digital research platform as central access point to resulting data

• Opportunity: varieties in terminology extraction/management and language technology (from speech recognition to machine translation)

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Language Varieties - DiÖ


• On everyone's lips and minds – German in Austria (“In aller Munde und aller Köpfe” - DiÖ)• citizen science project, add-on to DiÖ• interconnection between public and science interested in the topic of German in Austria• How to make people think about their use and perception of their language? • Events: scavenger hunt, meme contest, etc. • Question of the month: • “Where does the word ‘Teebutter’ come from?”• Citizen Science Award• Start your own research project

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Language Varieties - I AM DiÖ


https://www.facebook.com/Mundart-Memes-302045146588847/

• Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Automated Translation for the EU Council Presidency • Efficient solution to translating into all press articles and documents into 24 official EU

languages: EU Council Presidency Translator• Major outcomes: • Efficiency increase of translations by 40% during Austrian presidency • A flexible tool based on latest Neural Machine Translation technologies that can be

integrated into daily work environments of translators (https://www.translate2018.eu/#/text)

• Opportunity: named entities (Mr. Briefly - thanks Vesna) and language varieties - including variety-specific terminologies in machine translation

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Domain-Specific Machine Translation


Tool: https://www.translate2018.eu/#/text


CAT plug-in

• Observatory for Language Resources and Machine Translation in Europe (LT_OBSERVE)• Tackles fragmentation of Europe due to barriers arising from diversity of languages,

cultures, and transborder language technologies• Join, benchmark the quality of, and provide access to language resources • Main outcomes: • Public Policy Observatory• Language Resources Observatory• MT EcoGuide


Language Resource Access


Language Resource Catalog

Source: http://www.lt-innovate.org/lt-observe/resources-list


Arcan, M., & Buitelaar, P. (2017). Translating domain-specific expressions in knowledge bases with neural machine translation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02184.

Injecting Terminologies into NMTTransfer learning Injecting knowledge to decoder Attention-injection

• ERASMUS+ program Accessible Culture and Training (ACT) through ICT and Assistive Technologies• access to cultural content• Major outcomes: • definition of a new profile “Media Accessibility

Expert/Manager for the Scenic Arts” to empower citizens • design for innovative learning activities, including

curriculum design and a MOOC• Opportunity: multimodal, multilingual language

technology is an open field of research


Multimodal Language Technology

language physical needs technology

translationsubtitlingterminology

Audio Descriptionsubtitlingsign language

multimodal


Multimodality: VideoBERT

Sun, C., Myers, A., Vondrick, C., Murphy, K., & Schmid, C. (2019). VideoBERT: A joint model for video and language representation learning.arXiv CoRR abs/1904.01766


HealthHack 2018: Auslan alphabet to English text

1) Building Auslan image DB 2) Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

3) Building a backend (given an image of a sign, return a letter) and front-end - interaction with the user to detect images (using YOLO (You Only Look Once) - an object detection algorithm)

Source: https://blog.coviu.com/2018/09/21/how-we-used-ai-to-translate-sign-language-in-real-time/

• Legal Language Interoperability Services (LISE)• quality improvement and coordination of terminology in the legal and administrative domain by means

of interactive terminology services• Major outcomes:• combination of corpus analysis, term extraction and term identification with workflow and quality

management methods• web-based services for handling cross-lingual, cross-cultural, and cross-domain differences across

different applications• handling diversity of data but also coding scheme • solid set of guidelines for high-quality terminology work

• Opportunity: portability to other domains should be tested and possibility to integrate in Linked Data


Interoperability by Terminology


Example: ESTeam Cleanup


Guidelines: Glossary

Source: http://www.eurac.edu/en/research/autonomies/commul/Documents/LISE/Guidelines_for_collaborative_legal_administrative_terminology_work.pdf

• How to Achieve Innovative, Inclusive and Fit-for-Market Specialised Translator Training? A Transferable Model for Training Institutions• More in the afternoon by Szabó Csilla and Kovács Gabriella


eTransFair

• inject variety-specific terminological resources into machine translation systems to improve their output • multi-modal terminological resources and language technology • boost technological competence and especially confidence in training • interoperability a solved problem?• terminologies in a Big Data context? • language-, culture-, and accessibility-aware data science?• overcoming language barriers including varieties?

• cognitive basis of concept system


Terminology Science: from here?

Thank you for your attention!Source: https://xkcd.com/1405/

Accessibility Coordinator: • Understands basic concepts of accessibility,

inclusion, and requirements for accessibility events• Understands requirements for venue accessibility

(parking, toilets, lighting, etc.)• Understands accessibility services (audio

descriptions, subtitling, sign language interpretation, etc.) • http://pagines.uab.cat/act/sites/

pagines.uab.cat.act/files/io2-skill-cards_1_accessibility-coordinator-venue-based-_final-1.pdf


ACT - Skills Card

Accessibility Manager: • Understands basic concepts of accessibility,

inclusion, and requirements for accessibility events• Understands requirements for venue

accessibility (parking, toilets, lighting, etc.)• Understands accessibility for live events• Understands basic concepts of promoting of

accessibility • http://pagines.uab.cat/act/sites/

pagines.uab.cat.act/files/io2-skill-cards_2_accessibility-manager_final.pdf