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How to tell ChatGPT to extract terminology from parallel texts in different languages
My dear colleague (and former student) Florian Pfaffelhuber just drew my attention to the fact that ChatGPT is great at multilingual terminology extraction. It can also handle more than two languages and will create very nice multilingual glossary tables for you. What worked best when we tested it today was to copy the prompt and […]
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Automatic bilingual term extraction with OneClickTerms by SketchEngine
When I wrote about this great terminology extraction tool OneClickTerms back in 2017 I was already quite enthusiastic about how useful it was for last-minute conference preparation. But the one thing I didn’t mention back then (or maybe it wasn’t available yet) was that OneClickTerms does not only extract terminology from monolingual documents, but it […]
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The new IATE interpreters’ view – what’s in it for EU meeting preparation?
The EU’s terminology database has been around for quite some time – the project was launched back in 1999 and has been available to the public since 2007. Recently, it has been revamped, and an “interpreters’ view” has been added. All EU interpreters, staff and freelancers alike, have access to it, and it is tailored […]
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Use your clipboard for easier glossary building
When I prepare for a conference, I like to add expressions to a list and then look up equivalents, sort and categorise them later. But the other day I was so fed up with hopping back and forth between my glossary file and the pdfs, webpages etc. I was browsing in preparation (plus my colleague […]
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My hands-, eyes- and ears-on experience with SmarTerp, including a short interview with the UI designer
Last December, I was among the lucky ones who could beta-test SmarTerp, a CAI (Computer-Aided Interpreting) tool in development that offers speech-to-text support to simultaneous interpreters in the booth. For those who haven’t heard of SmarTerp before, this is what it is all about: SmarTerp comprises two components: 1. An RSI (Remote Simultaneous Interpreting) platform, […]
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How to keep your glossaries as tidy as your kitchen drawer
Once again, the new semester is approaching, and another knowledge management course is about to start at TH Köln’s Master of Conference Interpreting. Now after 15 years of teaching, I find myself wondering what it is that I really really want my students to remember for the rest of their professional lives. Things have changed […]
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How to Make CAI Tools Work for You – a Guest Article by Bianca Prandi
After conducting research and providing training on Computer-Assisted Interpreting (CAI) for the past 6 years, I feel quite confident in affirming that there are three indisputable truths about CAI tools: they can potentially provide a lot of advantages, do more harm than good if not used strategically, and most interpreters know very little about them. […]
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Great Piece of Research on Terminology Assistance for Conference Interpreters
https://slator.com/academia/terminology-assistance-coming-to-a-simultaneous-interpreter-near-you/
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How to Build Your Self-Translating Glossary in Google Sheets
I am certainly not saying that Google can create your glossaries for you when preparing for a technical conference on African wildlife or nanotubes. But if you know your languages well enough to tell a bad translation from a good one, it may still be a time-saver. Especially for those words you don’t use every […]
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How to measure the efficiency of your conference preparation
Half of the time we dedicate to a specific interpreting assignment is often spent on preparation. But while many a thought is given to the actual interpreting performance and the different ways to evaluate it, I hardly ever hear anyone discuss their (or others’) preparation performance. However, if we want to be good information and […]
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About Term Extraction, Guesswork and Backronyms – Impressions from JIAMCATT 2018 in Geneva
JIAMCATT is the International Annual Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology, a IAMLAP taskforce where most international organizations, various national institutions and academic bodies exchange information and experience in the field of terminology and translation. For this year’s JIAMCATT edition in Geneva, I had the honour of running a workshop on Tools for Interpreters – […]
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New Term Extraction Features in InterpretBank and InterpretersHelp – Thumbs up!
Extracting terminology from preparatory texts into a term database seems to be the hot topic of the moment, judging by what the two most active and innovative CAI (computer-assisted interpreting) tools, InterpretBank and InterpretersHelp, are working on at the moment. So while I am still waiting to become a Windows beta tester of Intragloss, the […]
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Flashterm revisited. A guest article by Anne Berres
+++ für deutsche Fassung bitte runterscrollen +++ One of everything, please! Have you ever wished there was a terminology management system (TMS) that would provide all the functions you are looking for and prepare for the conference largely automatically? Wouldn’t that be splendid? You’d just have to type in the event’s title and the […]
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Team Glossaries | Tips & Tricks von Magda und Anja | DfD 2017
Aus unserer Kurzdemo zum Thema “Teamglossare in GoogleSheets” bei “Dolmetscher für Dolmetscher” am 15. September 2017 in Bonn findet Ihr hier ein paar Screenshots und Kurznotizen. Detaillierte Gedanken zu gemeinsamer Glossararbeit in der Cloud findet Ihr in diesem Blogbeitrag. Magdalena Lindner-Juhnke und Anja Rütten Grundsätzliches zur Zusammenarbeit Einladung zum Online-Glossar Erwartungshaltung auf beiden Seiten “Share […]
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Paperless Preparation at International Organisations – an Interview with Maha El-Metwally
Maha El-Metwally has recently written a master’s thesis at the University of Geneva on preparation for conferences of international organisations using tablets. She is a freelance conference interpreter for Arabic A, English B, French and Dutch C domiciled in Birmingham. How come you know so much about the current preparation practice of conference interpreters at so […]
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InterpretBank 4 review
InterpretBank by Claudio Fantinuoli, one of the pioneers of terminology tools for conference interpreters (or CAI tools), already before the new release was full to the brim with useful functions and settings that hardly any other tool offers. It was already presented in one of the first articles of this blog, back in 2014. So now […]
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Booth notes wanted for a study | Kabinenzettel für Studienzwecke gesucht
Dear fellow conference interpreters! For a study on information management in the booth, I am currently collecting sample booth notes (those papers you scribble terminology, names, numbers, acronyms or whatever on). So if you would like to make your personal contribution to this study, it would be great if you could email or whatsapp me […]
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Impressions from Translating and the Computer 38
The 38th ‘Translating and the Computer’ conference in London has just finished, and, as always, I take home a lot of inspiration. Here are my personal highlights: Sketch Engine, a language corpus management and query system, offers loads of useful functions for conference preparation, like web-based (actually Bing-based) corpus-building, term extraction (the extraction results come […]
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Hello from the other side – Chinese and Terminology Tools. A guest article by Felix Brender 王哲謙
As Mandarin Chinese interpreters, we understand that we are somewhat rare beings. After all, we work with a language which, despite being a UN language, is not one you’d encounter regularly. We wouldn’t expect colleagues working with other, more frequently used languages to know about the peculiarities of Mandarin. This applies not least to terminology […]
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Booth-friendly terminology management: Glossarmanager.de
Believe it or not, only a few weeks ago I came across just another booth-friendly terminology management program (or rather it was kindly brought to my attention by a student when I talked about the subject at Heidelberg University). It has been around since 2008 and completely escaped my attention. So I am all the […]
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Airtable.com – a great replacement for Google Sheets | tolle Alternative zu Google Sheets
+++ for English see below +++ Mit der Terminologieverwaltung meiner Träume muss man alles können: Daten teilen, auf allen Geräten nutzen und online wie offline darauf zugreifen (wie mit Interpreters’ Help/Boothmate für Mac oder auch Google Sheets), möglichst unbedenklich Firmenterminologie und Hintergrundinfos des Kunden dort speichern (wie bei Interpreters’ Help), sortieren und filtern (wie in […]
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Zu Gast in Brüssel bei “Radio Alex”, auch bekannt als #LangFM
Diesen Monat war ich gemeinsam mit Leonie Wagener zu Gast in Brüssel an Alex Drechsel’s Podcast-Küchentisch. Sehr nett war’s – hier könnt Ihr reinhören: http://www.adrechsel.de/langfm/terminologie +++ Seminarankündigung +++ Wer beim Hören Appetit auf mehr Wissens- oder Terminologiemanagement bekommt und vom Rheinland nicht allzu weit entfernt ist (oder den Weg dorthin nicht scheut), könnte vielleicht Spaß […]
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Shared glossaries in Google Docs – How to make them work for everyone | Team-Glossare in Google Docs – So wird’s was
+++ for English see below +++ Team-Glossare in Google Docs – So wird’s was Als unsere liebe Kollegin Leonie Wagener 2012 im Rahmen ihrer Masterarbeit eine Erhebung zur vorbereitende Terminologiearbeit unter Konferenzdolmetschern durchführte, gaben 93 % an, zumindest in der Kabine nie ihre Terminologie in Google Docs zu bearbeiten. Mittlerweile ist die gemeinsame Vorbereitung […]
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Booth-friendly terminology management: Intragloss – the missing link between texts and glossaries|die Brücke zwischen Text und Glossar
+++ for English see below +++ Wer schon immer genervt war von der ständigen Wechselei zwischen Redetexten/Präsentationsfolien einerseits und dem Glossar andererseits, der hat jetzt allen Grund zu jubilieren: Dan Kenig und Daniel Pohoryles aus Paris haben mit Intragloss eine Software entwickelt, in der man direkt aus dem Text Termini in sein Glossar befördern kann […]
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MS-Excel and MS-Access – are they any good for the booth? | Taugen MS-Excel und MS-Access für die Dolmetschkabine?
Es gibt zwar eine ganze Menge Programme, die genau auf die Bedürfnisse von Konferenzdolmetschern zugeschnitten sind (etwa die Schnellsuche in der Kabine oder Strukturen für die effiziente Einsatzvorbereitung), aber eine ganze Reihe von Kollegen setzt dennoch eher auf Feld-Wald-und-Wiesen-Lösungen aus der MS-Office-Kiste. Abgesehen von Word – hier enthalte ich mich jeden Kommentars hinsichtlich dessen Tauglichkeit […]
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Summary table of terminology tools for interpreters | Übersichtstabelle Terminologietools für Dolmetscher | cuadro sinóptico de programas de gestión de terminología para intérpretes
This is an overview of all the terminology management tools for conference interpreters that I am aware of. I will try to keep the information in the table up to date. If there is anything wrong, feel free to post a comment! Dies ist eine Übersicht über alle Terminologieverwaltungstools für Konferenzdolmetscher, die mir bekannt sind. […]
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Booth-friendly terminology management – Flashterm.eu
+++ for English see below +++ Wer – womöglich auch fürs Übersetzen – eigentlich lieber eine “richtige” Terminologieverwaltung hätte, die obendrein aber noch kabinenfreundlich ist, der sollte einmal bei Flashterm von der Eisenrieth Dokumentations GmbH vorbeischauen. Flashterm basiert auf Filemaker und bietet die Klassiker der Eintragsmöglichkeiten wie Sachgebiete, Synonyme, Kontext usw. , aber auch das […]
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Not-To-Do Lists and Not-To-Learn Words
+++ For English see below +++ To-Do-Listen sind eine feine Sache: Einmal aufgeschrieben, kann man lästige Aufgaben zumindest zeitweilig des Gedächtnisses verweisen, und überhaupt ist man viel organisierter und effizienter. Ich zumindest gieße seit Ewigkeiten alles, was nicht bei drei auf den Bäumen ist, in eine Excel-Tabelle – seien es nun Geld, Arbeit, Adressbuch oder […]
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Quick multi-site terminology search | Terminologiesuche in verschiedenen Online-Quellen
For English see below Mal eben bei linguee.com, leo.org, IATE und anderen Nachschlageseiten prüfen, was ein “gillnet” ist und wie man dazu auf Deutsch oder Spanisch sagt, ohne etlichen Webseiten aufrufen und das Wort jedes Mal neu eintippen zu müssen – davon träume ich schon lange. Seit vielen Jahren probiere ich immer wieder Tools dafür […]
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Booth-friendly terminology management revisited – 2 newcomers
The nice thing about blogging is that if you miss something out, you are safe to find out within 24 hours. Interestingly, the programs presented in my last article are obviously the “veterans” of terminology management for conference interpreters (most of them have been around for years, since long before tablets and smartphones appeared). Two […]