Presenters: Tanja Wissik (University of Vienna) and Michael Wetzel (ESTeam) This presentation is a part of TaaS project funded from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), grant agreement no 296312

1. Tanja Wissik, University Vienna
Michael Wetzel, ESTeam AB
Tekom / tcworld, 07 November 2013
@wetzelmichael

2. 
EU project (ICT-PSP): 2011-2013

Improve quality

Achieve interoperability:
◦ “Improve the quality of large inter-institutional or
inter departmental terminological resources by
efficiently cleaning them in a collaborative online
environment”

Benefits
◦ Spot inconsistencies and gaps
◦ Collaborate with associated institutions
◦ Learn from proven best practices

www.lise-termservices.eu
The project has received funding from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n° 270917.

3. The project has received funding from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n° 270917.

4.  period:
2012
2011-
 17
expert
interviews
 mainly
public
organisations
 represent
all
purposes of
terminology
work
The project has received funding from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n° 270917.

5. Introductory Samples
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

6. 

No solution for efficient maintenance,
cleaning and improving large resources
No terminology-focused collaboration
platforms that cater for inter-institutional
contexts nor interoperability
„Difficulty to ensure
consistency, in terms of
quality, coverage,
completeness“ (IATE, EU)
„Manual revision of the
keyword lists are not
possible any more“
(AUP, AT)
Duplicates,
inconsistencies, gaps
and content coverage
problems after
merging two resources
(Imaging company, has received funding from the European Community
The project UK)
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant Agreement n° 270917.
6

7. But!
... searching for Oberschule brings
up another record, suggesting
secondary school

8. No
doublettes
Correct
categorization
No
missing
languages
How
reliable is
my data?
No misspellings
Consistent
term
formation

9. What is LISE
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

10. Before
Redundant
Inconsistent
Incomplete
Spot the Flaws
Doublettes
Inconsistencies
Gaps
Collaboratively Review
Clean
Add
Approve
After
Cleaned
Consistent
Enhanced

11. Analyse
Terminology
Service
Terminology
Resource
Enhance
Clean
Collaboration
Platform
Discuss
Commit

12. ESTeam Tools
Collaboration Platform
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

13. 
German term field contains
two translations (instead of
only one)

14. 
Out of a translation memory, Fillup
suggests for the existing English
terms GC / gyro compass the German
term Kreiselkompasse

16. 25000
number of terms per language
20000
6
10
7
8
1
2
3
0
2
3
0
0
0
225
282
68
118
122
38
63
16
101
95
8
5
2
54
42
25
8
9
4
13
5
15
2
3
1
1
SUBSET
4
25
7
11
12
28
20
13
0
9
8
6
4
TRANSLATION
0
7
0
4
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
DOMAIN
EN
310 22
FR
387 24
DE
121 14
ES
170 22
IT
158 14
DA
81
9
NL
113 14
SV
40
6
EL
124 7
PT
119 8
The project has received funding
FI
28
9
from the European Community
17
5
(ICT-PSP CS call) under Grant
4th
HU
7
Agreement14 270917.
n°
EQUIVALENT
BG CS DA DE EL EN ES ET FI FR HU IT LT LV MT NL PL PT RO SK SL SV
LANGUAGE
0
TOTAL
5000
SPELLING
10000
CANONISATION
15000
102
154
67
28
33
19
33
8
18
27
7
1
1

17. Efficiency through accuracy
Next: Control and knowledge
through structure
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

18. • No redundant work
• Complete
• Experts and nonexperts
• No noisy data
• Intra- and extradepartmental
• Comprehensible
• Little obstacles
Focus
Collaborate
• Up-to-date
• Traceable
Establish
Trust
18

19. Haystack of
unrelated
terms and
concepts
control
OMEO
identifies
similar terms
and groups
them
meaning
Putting groups
in relations to
each other to
achieve
meaning

20. ...
...
Grundschule
elementary school
Gymnasium
grammar school
…
…
Oberschule
secondary school
…
…
Realschule
intermediate school
…
…
Schule
school
...
...
Today:
List of entries
Schule
school
Oberschule
secondary
school
Gymnasium
grammar
school
Grundschule
elementary
school
Realschule
intermediate
school
Goal:
Visualised concept map

21. Measure and Improve Quality
in Termbases
Sustainability of LISE
Technology
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

22. Resource
LISE
Export
Terminology Services
Rules
Update
Retrieval and
Editing
Analyse
Enhance
Data Storage
Clean
Collaboration Portal
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

23. Rules
Collaboration Portal
Retrieval and
Editing
Enhance
Clean
Terminology Services
Analyse
Data Storage
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

24. The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

26. 
Resources grow, while their quality degrades

LISE – measure and improve quality in termbases

LISE Guidelines for collaborative

◦ Proven, customisable tools
◦ Platform for cross-border collaborative data
improvements
legal/administrative terminology work available
as e-book
http://www.lise-termservices.eu/downloads
LISE technology evolves into Coreon –
www.coreon.com
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.

27. Tanja Wissik (tanja.wissik@univie.ac.at), University Vienna
Michael Wetzel (michael@esteam.se), ESTeam AB
@wetzelmichael
www.coreon.com
The project has received funding
from the European Community
(ICT-PSP 4th call) under Grant
Agreement n° 270917.