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Workshop on Machine Translation and Lexicon

WMTL 1993: Machine Translation and the Lexicon pp 175–188Cite as

The use of terminological knowledge bases in software localisation

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This paper describes the work that was undertaken in the Glossasoft 1 project in the area of terminology management. Some of the drawbacks of existing terminology management systems are outlined and an alternative approach to maintaining terminological data is proposed. The approach which we advocate relies on knowledge-based representation techniques. These are used to model conceptual knowledge about the terms included in the database, general knowledge about the subject domain, application-specific knowledge, and — of course — language-specific terminological knowledge. We consider the multifunctionality of the proposed architecture to be one of its major advantages. To illustrate this, we outline how the knowledge representation scheme, which we suggest, could be drawn upon in message generation and machine-assisted translation.

Glossasoft is partially supported by the EU under the contract LRE-61003 together with Open University (GB), N.C.S.R. “Demokritos” (GR), Claris (IR), HP Hellas (GR), VTT (Fi), and BULL (Fr).

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  1. Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, 15310, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    E. A. Karkaletsis, C. D. Spyropoulos & G. Vouros

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Karkaletsis, E.A., Spyropoulos, C.D., Vouros, G. (1995). The use of terminological knowledge bases in software localisation. In: Steffens, P. (eds) Machine Translation and the Lexicon. WMTL 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 898. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59040-4_28

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