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Improvements of Dictionaries – Suggestions by Evroterm Miran Željko

Explore Evroterm's initiatives to improve dictionaries for better technical translation. Discover valuable resources and databases for efficient terminology management. Learn about essential information translators need and how easy access to online resources can streamline the process.

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Improvements of Dictionaries – Suggestions by Evroterm Miran Željko

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  1. Improvements of Dictionaries – Suggestions by Evroterm Miran Željko Government of the Republic of Slovenia Translation division

  2. Current situation The majority of (lexicographical) resources currently available are of little use to translators and therefore many are obliged to resort to the creation of their own terminological resources. (Isabel Durán Muñoz, eLexicography in the 21st century, October 2009)

  3. Technical translators • experts in one or two fields • have to translate texts from other fields • new terms • time pressure

  4. Databases Evroterm Evrokorpus EUR-Lex terminology corpus full text database

  5. Similar projects (ex-YU territory) • Macedonia: http://tcu.sep.gov.mk/eutc/ • Montenegro: http://www.eiprevod.gov.me/ • Serbia: http://evrotermis.anyterm.info/ • BiH: in the future

  6. Conclusions (I. Durán) • Translators undoubtedly need: • linguistic information (definitions, equivalents, collocations, context, acronyms, etc.) • Pragmatic information (cultural differences, tips of use, domain specification, etc.) • The rest is desirable but not essential (semantic information). • Easy and quick access to online resources. • Time-consuming checking many different resources. • Good and concrete definitions.

  7. URL http://evroterm.gov.si/ miran.zeljko@gov.si

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