Terminology and Lexicography

Updates on terminology, lexicography, including useful glossaries, lexicons, dictionaries are available at:

• The Translation World – Terminologies, Dictionaries, Glossaries, Words, etc.
• The Translation World – Search Tools (monolingual and bilingual search)

However, you are invited to tell us about your own terminology or lexicography world here. Share your views and experience on relevant issues of your own choice. Your contribution may be submitted online through the Comment box below.

The following links provide information which you may find relevant.

TUTORIALS, JOURNALS AND OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

• http://btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/didacticiel_tutorial/english/contributions_sp/indee.html
• Alchemy API for keyword extraction
• Terminologie.net
• http://www.termisti.refer.org/termisti.htm
• http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/publications/publications_amenagement/terminogramme.html
• http://www.terminometro.info/modules/articles/accueil/index.php
• http://www.rifal.org/
• Translated.net Terminology-extraction tool
• http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=TERM
• http://www.uwasa.fi/viestintatieteet/terminology/

ONLINE RESEARCH STRATEGIES

• http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/lesson7.shtml
• http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
• http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/searchin.htm
• CONCORDANCE, CORPUS BUILDING ANALYSIS AND TERM EXTRACTION TOOLS
• ■fivefilters.org
  ■maui-indexer (downloadable too)
  ■TerMine (downloadable too)
  ■AlchemyAPI keyword / terminology extraction
  ■Terminology Extraction by Translated LabsFree Term Extractors for Download (APIs, Code, and Desktop Versions)■Wordfast (part of PlusTools 4)
  ■KEA
  ■topia.termextract
  ■Araya Bilingual Term Extraction Tool
• ■maui-indexer (downloadable too)
  ■TerMine (downloadable too)
  ■AlchemyAPI keyword / terminology extraction
  ■Terminology Extraction by Translated Labs
• Free Term Extractors for Download (APIs, Code, and Desktop Versions)
• ■Wordfast (part of PlusTools 4)
  ■Vocab Grabber
• KEA

■topia.termextract
■ Araya Bilingual Term Extraction Tool

• • Term Extraction | fivefilters.org

    fivefilters.org

    This is a free software project to enable easy term extraction through a web service. Given some text it will return a list of terms with (hopefully) the most relevant first. The list is returned in JSON format. It is a free alternative to Yahoo’s Term Extraction service. It is being developed as pa
  • Demo of automatic topic indexing using Maui

    maui-indexer.appspot.com

    Maui automatically identifies main topics in text documents. Depending on the task, topics are tags, keywords, keyphrases, vocabulary terms, descriptors, index terms or titles of Wikipedia articles. This demo shows how a vocabulary can be used to derive the topics, e.g. High Energy Physics thesau
• • Web Demonstration – Termine Web Demonstrator

    www.nactem.ac.uk

    This demonstration system annotates the inputted text with terms recognised by the C-value method and acronyms recognised by AcroMine. Please note that C-value term extraction requires a fair amount of text to produce reasonable termhood scores, as these rely on the key terms occurring multipl

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    Web Demonstration – Termine Web Demonstrator

    www.nactem.ac.uk

    This demonstration system annotates the inputted text with terms recognised by the C-value method and acronyms recognised by AcroMine. Please note that C-value term extraction requires a fair amount of text to produce reasonable termhood scores, as these rely on the key terms occurring multipl

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    AlchemyAPI – Keyword / Terminology Extraction

    www.alchemyapi.com

    AlchemyAPI is capable of extracting topic keywords from your HTML, text, or web-based content. We employ sophisticated statistical algorithms and natural language processing technology to analyze your data, extracting keywords that can be utilized to index content, generate tag clouds, and more!
  • Terminology Extraction

    labs.translated.net

    Terminology is the sum of the terms which identify a specific topic. Extracting terminology is the process of extracting terminology from a text.

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    Wordfast

    www.wordfast.net

    Wordfast – industry-leading translation memory environment: for translation, localization, language services, language solutions. Created by Yves Champollion

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    Kea

    www.nzdl.org

    Keywords and keyphrases (multi-word units) are widely used in large document collections. They describe the content of single documents and provide a kind of semantic metadata that is useful for a wide variety of purposes. The task of assigning keyphrases to a document is
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    Python Package Index : topia.termextract 1.1.0

    pypi.python.org

    This package determines important terms within a given piece of content. It uses linguistic tools such as Parts-Of-Speech (POS) and some simple statistical analysis to determine the terms and their strength.

  • http://www.heartsome.de/en/termextraction.php

    Terminology Extraction < Heartsome Europe GmbH

    www.heartsome.de

    Araya – Term-Extraction: We offer you an automated terminology extraction service which is based on a statistical method and results in bilingual term pairs based on TMX files.
• SEOmoz | Term Extractor SEO Tool

  www.seomoz.org

  This tool analyzes the content of a given page and extracts the terms that appear to be targeted at search engines. It applies certain weights to HTML elements and other on-page factors to determine what it thinks is a targeted term.
• Yahoo Term extraction tool
• http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html
• http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html
• http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/
• http://www.wordcounter.com/cgi-bin/result.cgi
• http://lcl2.di.uniroma1.it/termextractor/
• http://www.termserver.eu/cms/content/view/14/28/

Search tools

Multilingual search

• 2lingual Google Search
• Sobotong Bilingual Search Engine

Other search tools

• LogiTerm
• dtSearch
• Eurêka
• Lexicool
• GlossPost
• GoTranslators link library
• Aquarius link library
• Logos glossary database
• Dictionarium
• Portalingua by the Latin Union
• L’inventaire des travaux terminologiques dans Internet de l’OLF
• DictSearch by Foreignword
• Eurêka’s Google Term Search
• TC’s dictionary search boxes
• WWW Search Interfaces for Translators
• Open Directory Project

EXAMPLES OF ONLINE DICTIONARIES, TERMINOLOGIES, GLOSSARIES, LEXICONS AND CORPORA

GENERAL

• http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/
• http://www.lexicool.com/dictionnaires-en-ligne-par-sujet.asp
• http://www.termisti.org/infof.htm
• http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/glossary/index.asp
• http://www.imf.org/external/np/term/index.asp

ARABIC

• http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/latifa/arabic_corpora.htm

ENGLISH

• http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/
• http://www.lexicool.com/dictionnaires-en-ligne-par-sujet.asp
• http://www.onelook.com/
• http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
• http://www.urbandictionary.com/
• http://www.merriam-webster.com/
• http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction1.html
• http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index800_1.asp
• http://legranddictionnaire.com/
• http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng
• http://www.statmt.org/europarl/
• http://www.ldoceonline.com/
• http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=61583&dict=CALD&topic=economics
• http://www.businessdictionary.com/
• http://www.lexicool.com/
• http://machaut.uchicago.edu/rogets
• http://www.lexicool.com/online-dictionary.asp?FSP=A09B12
• http://www.americancorpus.org/
• http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
• http://corpus.byu.edu/time/
• http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html
• http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/

FRENCH

• http://www.lexicool.com/dictionnaires-en-ligne-par-sujet.asp
• http://www.les-dicos.com/dictionnaire-francais.html
• http://www.translatum.gr/dics/fr.htm
• http://dictionnaire.sensagent.com/dictionnaire+hachette/fr-fr/
• http://www.dictionnaire.com/hachette/
• http://www.larousse.com/fr/
• http://www.larousse.com/en/
• http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/
• http://www.langue-fr.net/spip.php?article43 (Dictionnaire des difficultés du français)
• http://dictionnaire.sensagent.com/
• http://www.le-dictionnaire.com/
• http://legranddictionnaire.com/
• http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlfv3.htm
• http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra
• http://corp.hum.sdu.dk/cqp.fr.html
• http://www.statmt.org/europarl/
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.40.8705
• http://www.lexicool.com/
• http://www.lexicool.com/online-dictionary.asp?FSP=A09B12
• http://abu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/kwic3
• http://www.universalis.fr/

GERMAN

• http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/corpus/
• http://www.statmt.org/europarl/

SPANISH

• http://www.elmundo.es/diccionarios/
• http://view.byu.edu/
• http://en.bab.la/
• http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/site/termium.php?lang=spa&cont=001
• http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
• http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/

PORTUGUESE

• http://view.byu.edu/
• http://www.corpusdoportugues.org/
• http://www.pdfgeni.com/book/dictionary-portuguese-pdf.html
• http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/glossario/?mid=221

SWAHILI

• http://www.africanmeccasafaris.com/swahili.asp

OTHER USEFUL JOURNALS

• Journal of Specialised Translation

• Terminologie et traduction
• Terminology

• Terminologie.net
• TTR: Traduction, terminologie, rédaction
• Cahiers du Rifal