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Rodolfo Maslias
Terminology in the European
Parliament
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Organisation of translation and terminology at the EP
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The huge translation machine of the European Union
• 506 language combinations
• About 5000 translators and assistants
• In 10 institutions
• Big variety of instruments: translation memories, terminology database, machine translation
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Why is Terminology important for the EP?
• Since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force the EP adopts the final legislative texts that have been previously translated into the 23 official languages of the EU
• Each translation is legally binding and is transposed into national law
• Inaccurate wording and wrong terminology can transfer legislative powers to the … Court of Justice!
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Terminology Work
Language Units
• terminology production directly in IATE or by other means
• completion of missing languages, updates and validation of entries in IATE
TermCoord
• general coordination
• topic-related projects
• help and support
• interinstitutional consolidation in IATE
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Terminology in the Language Units
• Translators feed their terminology findings directly into IATE or register them in an intermediate list via a Word macro
• There are no full-time terminologists – just translators doing terminology work
• At least two terminologists are appointed according to a profile with required skills
• There is a network of 106 terminologists
• General terminology work in IATE, checking terminology registered via the macro, training of translators, supporting trainees in their terminology projects, coordination of terminology projects in their language, involving trainees
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Three main fields of activity
Administration
of the
database
Support for
terminology
production
Preparatory
documentation
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Terminology workflow in Translation Directorate
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• Creation and administration of passwords, attribution of roles, technical user assistance
• Interinstitutional cooperation for consolidation purposes
• Continuous training for terminologists, translators and trainees
• Production and update of guides
What does the administration of an interactive database with so many users involve?
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• available directly in MS Word toolbar
• works with SDL/Trados
• instant IATE search
• collected terms are processed by the terminologists in the language units, then completed in all languages and feeded into IATE by TermCoord
Real-time Terminology
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• Prepared for the translation of main legislative procedures
• Contain topic specific glossaries, reference documents, relevant national legislation, additional information, lists of experts
• Link to TermFolders is added to the translation request in the translation management system
Documentation: TermFolders
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• Human rights (human trafficking / migration / humanitarian law)
• Financial terms
• LGBT and gender specific terminology
• International trade and trade policy
• Equivalents of national terminology for the biographies of the 754 MEPs
• Terminology extraction
• Language-specific projects, requested or initiated by the units
Current Terminology Projects
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• Train-to-Train sessions for terminologists
• Q&A sessions for technical issues (every 2 months)
• “One-hour-IATE-trainings” in the 23 translation units
Trainings
• Brief introduction
to IATE for new
trainees (every 3
months)
• One-day training
for newcomers
• Tools
presentations
• IATE Training in
other institutions
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The Terminology Coordination Unit of the EP was created only in 2008. It began its work as a three-member service and was converted into a unit with 10 permanent officials and 6-10 trainees in 2011 facing three main communication challenges:
• to persuade translators and authors that terminology is a key quality factor
• to improve and modernise the structures of communication and cooperation between the institutions that manage the IATE database
• to integrate its actions into the modern global evolution of terminology as a science that touches all areas of production, communication and technology
The challenge of Communication
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TermCoord’s presence on the intranet of DG TRAD
… and on the intranet
for the whole EP staff
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Awareness Campaigns for authors (who often write in another language than their mother tongue …)
Terminology
presentation for
the Members of
the EP during
the Sakharov
Prize Award in
Strasbourg in
December 2011
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Special section in the EP Library dedicated to terminology
• Providing the first historical
glossaries of the EP in what was then
only 6 official languages up to the
most modern books about
terminology
• Access to the pages of the websites
of both units which contain the
continuously updated bibliography as
well as e-books
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• Member of European Association for Terminology (EAfT)
• Member of TermNet, InfoTerm and EFNIL
• Participation in international academic forums
• Cooperation with universities and international organisations
• Exchange of terminology material and know-how
• Presentations of the EP TermCoord in Luxembourg and abroad
• Network of more than 1000 external contacts
External Cooperation
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Seminars in cooperation with universities and international bodies
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Seminar in the first historical hemicycle of the EP in videoconference with the colleagues of the European institutions in Bruxelles
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Public IATE: EU’s terminology in the web
• 8 million validated terms
• European legislation in 24 languages
• An average of 3600 visits per hour
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Interinstitutional Cooperation
TermCoord initiated and develops an (initially)
interinstitutional Terminology Portal
TermCoord‘s
initiative from
2011 which was
subsequently
adopted by the
IATE
Management
Group in 2012
and finally
approved by the
EU hierarchy
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Interinstitutional terminology finally goes … online
The Portal
offers:
• Access to all terminology tools and material from all the EU institutions
• Terminology news from the EU and the rest of the world
• Links to terminology websites
• Cooperation in common projects
• Contacts to experts
• Calendar of activities and events
• Collection of texts, presentations and guides
In addition, we develop and offer for each
language community a wiki to facilitate
cooperation and communication among the
translators of all the EU institutions
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TermCoord opens for the EU terminology a window to the world
• The only EU Terminology Unit represented in the web
• Our most popular wegpages:
IATE Term of the Week, GlossaryLinks, DocHound, EU
Glossaries, EU Traineeships, Interviews with famous
terminologists conducted by our trainees,
Recommended Readings, EP Seminars, International
Conferences, Termbanks
TermCoord has a page on FB
and accounts in LinkedIn and
TermCoord‘s website is one of the
most visited terminology websites
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Terminology courses in the University of Luxembourg
Four members of TermCoord teach terminology
(20 hours per semester) in the framework of the
Master in Learning and Communication in
Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
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Cooperation with Universities
IATE Terminology projects:
• Professors of Terminology or Translation Departments of
various Universities prepare – in close cooperation with
TermCoord – lists of IATE terms from specific fields
• their students complete and enter the data in a template
which is identical to the one used by our translators
• our terminologists check and validate the data
• the data is imported into IATE
“Research Visits“ of Terminology
or Translation Professors in the
framework of Erasmus
Traineeships of students in the
fields of terminology and translation
or communication and IT
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All in one booklet
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With warm greetings from the whole TermCoord team in Luxembourg
