This document introduces Terminology as a Service (TaaS), a cloud-based platform for acquiring, cleaning, sharing, and reusing multilingual terminology data. It discusses the complexity of terminology work and the need for TaaS. A survey found that over 80% of users see terminology work as important or very important. The document outlines TaaS partners and services, which include automatic term extraction and translation, integration with terminology databases and tools, and APIs for other applications. TaaS aims to simplify terminology processes for language workers and provide terminology to translation tools and machine translation systems.

1. Welcome to the Cloud!
Terminology as a Service
Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Tilde
tekom 2013 / Wiesbaden / 07.11.2013.

2. Complexity of terminology works
 Term identification in the source text
 Consulting online databases and local files for translation
equivalents
 Creating and maintaining terminology glossaries
 Sharing term glossaries and involving others in their
polishing
 Structuring data in the industry standard formats
 Integrating term glossaries in CAT and other productivity
tools
 Keeping terminology up to date
 etc.

3. Terminology as a Service
cloud-based platform for acquiring, cleaning up,
sharing, and reusing multilingual terminological data

4. TaaS User Needs Survey Results:
Importance of terminology work
1.8%
14.8%
43.5%
Very important
Quite important
Less important
Not important
39.9%

5. TaaS User Needs Survey:
willingness to share
60.5%
39.5%
Yes, provided that…
16.7%
No, because…
8.3%
24.9%
6.0%
4.6%
16.5%
48.6%
7.6%
19.2%
11.4%
14.2%
Joint contribution to the DB
Access control
Legal aspects
External quality control
Little effort
Anonymity
Other
22.0%
Legal restrictions
Poor quality/Lack of time
Own asset
Risk of misunderstanding

6. TaaS Partners
 Tilde
Latvia (Coordinator)
 TAUS
Netherlands
 Kilgray
Hungary
 Cologne University
of Applied Sciences
 University of Sheffield
Germany
UK

7. TaaS Mission
 Simplify the process for language workers to prepare,
store and share of task-specific multilingual term glossaries
 Provide instant access to term translation equivalents and
translation candidates for professional translators through
CAT tools
 Domain adaptation of statistical machine translation
systems by dynamic integration with TaaS provided
terminology data

8. Key services of TaaS
 Automatic extraction of monolingual term
candidates
from user uploaded documents
 Automatic retrieval of translation equivalents
from different public and industry terminology
databases
 Translation candidate acquisition
from multilingual web data
 Facilities for cleaning-up
by users automatically acquired terminological
data;
 Data sharing and integration facilities
through APIs and export tools

9. Focus areas
Research
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Quality
Performance
Scalability
Interoperability
 Term extraction
 Collection of domain specific
multilingual corpora
 Max(FTC)
Development
Usage
 Usability
 Outreach
 Sustainability

10. TaaS Services

11. Target Repositories
 TAUS Data
repository of multilingual translation memories
 EuroTermBank
databank of federated multilingual terminology
 IATE
inter-institutional termbank of European Union
 META-SHARE
distributed Pan-European repository of language
resources

12. Integration
 Support for industry standard
formats
 Integration into CAT and
productivity tools
 API to integrate TaaS services
into various software
applications

13. Term identification and annotation

14. HTML Term Annotation
Term entries for terms identified in EuroTermBank are stored in TBX format
in a <script> element that is placed in the HTML5 document.

15. XLIFF Term Annotation

16. Identifying and marking terms
New W3C standard for Internationalization
Tag Set ITS 2.0
ITS 2.0 enriched
content
ITS 2.0 enriched
content
Showcase
Web Page
Terminology
Annotation
Web Service API
Plaintext
TaaS Terminology Services
Human users
(e.g., translators,
terminologists)
ITS2.0
term-annotated content
export / visualisation
ITS2.0
term-annotated
content
ITS 2.0
enriched
content
Term-annotated
content
ITS2.0
term-annotated
content
Machine users
CAT Tools MT Systems

18. CAT tools
MT
https
REST
https
REST
Presentation Layer
included
Public API
included
Web Page UI
External
TDBs
https
REST
Web
Browsers
http/https
html
TaaS Architecture
Application Logic Layer
Terminology
collection
management
User
management
Data Storage Layer
(Shared Term Repository)
Terminology
collection
search
Terminology
collection
creation
Term extraction workflows
Full collection
creation
workflow
Monolingual
collection
creation
High-performance
Computing (HPC) Cluster
File Store
HPC frontend
SGE
Translation
candidate
extraction
Modules
Term extraction
TXT extractor
TWSC
Kilgray Term
Extractor
Term normalizer
CPU
CPU
Collection creator
CPU
CPU
Statistical DB
acquisition
CPU
Statistical
DB
CPU
CPU
Shared Term
Repository
DB
Text
tagging
with terms
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
CPU
Parameter retriever
Bilingual Term
Extraction System
Statistical DB feeding
....
Translation
lookup
ETB & STR
IATE
TAUS API
Statistical DB
Collection merger
Result processing
Collection Importer
Marked Text
enrichment

19. koks timber
How to instruct SMT
to use the right terms?

20. Put TaaS in the service for MT

22. s
do-it-yourself
MT factory
on the cloud

23. Boost in the quality of
machine translation
Narrow Domain Automotive MT
English – Latvian
DATA
2 M unique parallel sentences
1.9 M monolingual sentences
0.2 M in-domain monolingual
QUALITY
16% improvement from
terminology integration

24. Come & Try
demo.taas-project.eu

25. Thank you!
andrejs@tilde.com
The research within the project TaaS leading to these results has received funding from the European
Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), Grant Agreement no 296312