LISA Forum USA

Building a Globally Integrated Organization

Reducing the Learning Curve

Managing Enterprise Terminology – Principles, Methods and Business Objectives

Instructor: Kara Warburton

09:00 - 17:00 : Thursday, June 26 - Friday, June 27, 2008

Workshop Agenda

Day 1 - Fundamental concepts, business value, best practices
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and Introduction
09:00 - 09:45	What is terminology? Why is terminology management important? Developing a business case.
09:45 - 10:15	Hands-on practice: Issues with search and retrievability, brand visibility, translation inconsistency
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15	Basic principles What is a term? What is a concept? Terminology versus lexicology Synonyms and homonyms Language perspectives Terminology and information quality Terminology versus translation memory
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Data categories: terms, grammatical information, translations, definitions, abbreviations, and more
14:30 - 15:00	Hands-on practice: TM vs terminology, definitions, and synonyms.
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30	Identifying your needs Who are your stakeholders? What are the practical business needs? Controlled authoring requirements Translation requirements Other user requirements Tools dependencies
16:30 - 17:00	Standards and best practices
17:00 - 17:15	Wrap up of day 1 and preview of day 2
Day 2 - Technology, tools, and process workflow
08:45 - 10:15	Technological considerations Separating translatable content Data design principles Markup formats Interoperability and dependencies Input and output formats Corpus annotation Hands-on practice: converting a document to XML
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15	Tools review Terminology functions in translation memory systems Term extraction tools Full-fledged terminology databases Controlled authoring aids Hands on practice: Researching a term in an online termbase Identifying terms from a term extraction file
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Defining an end-to-end process Roles and responsibilities Term identification Term evaluation and modification Packaging for translation Storing in a central repository Case study: "cheat sheet"
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	Sharing and repurposing terminology Sharing terminology, federated databases, TBX Extended applications of terminology: search engines, spell checkers, machine translation Wrap-up