Comunicació presentada en el marc del taller internacional “Terminologia i diccionaris electrònics”, organitzat per la comunitat d’investigadors TOTh (Terminology & Ontology: Theories and Applications) i la Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, celebrat a Castellói de la Plana el 17 de novembre del 2017.

1. Dictionary self-assessment test:
a way to complete on-line dictionaries
Jordi Bover i Salvadó
Joan Rebagliato Nadal
TOTh Workshop 2017
« Terminology and e-dictionaries »

2. Summary
(1) Internet: a change of model
(2) Our main goals
(3) Previous experiences
(4) TermTest conception
(5) TermTest design
(6) How does TermTest work?
(7) Conclusions

3. 1. Internet: a change of model
How could we go further?
How could users become our partners and authors?
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The internet has led to:
- The disintegration of traditional knowledge centers
- The socialization of the creation of knowledge
Thanks to internet:
- Remote access to dictionaries and
databases
- Multiple query options
- Regular data update
- Possibility of query modules

4. 2. Our main goals
Dictionary self-assessment tool that
promotes terminological knowledge
and contribution
Terminological
knowledge
acquisition
Partnership
and engagement
Dictionary self-
assessment
Contribution to a
public terminological
database
Improvement
of terminological
information use

5. Wiktionary: Collaborative lexicography
- Community of non-lexicographers
users
- Data import + Personal
with later revisions contributions
- Mainly: basic lexicon +
neologisms
- Very varied information
- Wide range of potential users
- Small overlap with other lexicons
(Meyer and Gurevych 2012)
3. Previous experiences

6. 4. TermTest conception STRUCTURE
USER
DICTIONARY
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A dictionary, as an organized set of terms, meets
some methodological requirements:
In a dictionary,
methodological quality
is synonymous
with content quality.
- to be mounted on a solid structure;
- to follow a consistent and known pattern;
- to be flexible but rigorously codified;
- to accept different levels of interpretation, according to
user skills and needs.

7. (A) Dictionary as a whole
- External conditions (repository, sources)
- General features (structure of concepts, equivalent designations)
(B) Designations and equivalent designations
- Representation (order, feminine forms)
- Lexical category (verb types, plural nouns)
- Abbreviations
(C) Definition
- Formal features (one sentence, avoiding synonymy)
- Syntax (syntactic equivalents, noun arguments)
- Semantics (broad meaning, prioritization)
The user also follows a progressive
path in the learning of methodology
A dictionary analysis must follow a
progressive path, from what it is
more general to the core of the
dictionary itself.
4. TermTest conception

8.  Technological tool: Typeform
 Versions: Catalan, Spanish, English
 Basis: Verifiable and generally accepted
criteria
 Macro-structure: 3 blocks of 25 questions
(Overall view, Designations, Definition)
 Micro-structure: Binary questions, Help,
Answer options
 Final result: Points + Evaluation + Full text
+ Sending a sample of dictionary (Catalan)
7 possible evaluations: Excellent, Very
good, Good, Satisfactory, Barely okay,
Unsatisfactory, Poor
5. TermTest design

9. Introduction
6. How does TermTest work?

22. Example of evaluation

23. 6. How does TermTest work? (2)
Final document

24. 7. Conclusions
 In the information society users are
not only consumers but also
creators (prosumers)
- Online evaluation
- Empowerment
- Possibility of contributing to a public
data bank with its own data (Catalan)
 Methodological quality implies content quality: an appropriate methodology
results in a good dictionary.
 Expert users become demanding and creative users; learning to evaluate implies
learning to create.
 Present and future challenges
- Improvement of TermTest with the contribution of users
- A more interactive test, in order to obtain the user’s point of view in the
same communication channel
- A real integration of external dictionaries to Cercaterm, in case the test
result satisfaying
- Creation of a version able of evaluating dictionaries without human
intervention

25. Jordi Bover i Salvadó
Joan Rebagliato Nadal