CHAT 2012: Workshop on Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology resources

CALL for PAPERS

The second workshop on the Creation, Harmonization and Application of Terminology resources (CHAT 2012) will be held in conjunction with the conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE 2012) on June 19 in Madrid. Organizing Committee invites academic and industrial researches as well as language workers and students interested in the workshop to participate!

CHAT 2011 - the first workshop

The Open Day’s event for FP7 R&D in Latvia was held on November 21, 2011, at the Great Hall of the University of Latvia in Riga. The event was organised by the National Contact Point of the Seventh Framework Programme and the University of Latvia. TTC was presented with the midterm project poster by Tatiana Gornostay (TILDE).

The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011) was organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing  and held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 8-13, 2011. The conference covered a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. IJCNLP 2011 included full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. TTC TermSuite, a UIMA-based application for terminology extraction and alignment from comparable corpora, was demonstrated by Jérôme Rocheteau and Beatrice Daille from LINA (demo paper).

Jérôme Rocheteau is explaining the TTC TermSuite chain to Inguna Skadiņa from Tilde, Latvia

TIA 2011 was the 9th event in the successful series which started out as a predominantly francophone conference. The conference has gradually attracted a wider audience and over the past six years it has grown to be a truly international conference. TTC participated in the TIA conference with the presentation "Simple methods for dealing with term variation and term alignment" Ulrich Heid (IMS) of the conference paper of the same name.  

The 6^th TTC Consortium Meeting is being held in l'Auberge La Fontaine aux Bretons (Pornic), an old farm building built between the land and the sea keeping the most beautiful and authentic parts of Brittany.

The time has come to discuss reference terminology lists in the domains of wind energy and mobile communications for TTC evaluation scenarios. What is a term? What is a term variant? What is a terminological collocation? These are the main questions raised this time, e.g. wind energy and wind energy production – are these two terms or the second unit is a collocation of the first one? Renewable energy, alternative energy, and green energy – are these three base terms or synonymic variants? UN, IMS and Syllabs are presenting tools for monolingual term candidate extraction from comparable corpora.

The second workshop is on TTC usage scenarios – computer-assisted and machine translation. Sogitec and Tilde are going to present their methodology and plans for CAT in the domains of aeronautics and IT localization.