Open Terminology Management and Sharing Toolkit for Federation of Terminology Databases
This provides a standardized solution for content creators, translators, and AI applications needing current terminology, though it is incremental as it builds on existing federation concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of fragmented and outdated terminology resources by introducing the EuroTermBank Toolkit, which enables organizations to manage, search, and share terminology through a federated database network, automatically updating EuroTermBank as the largest multilingual terminology resource in Europe.
Consolidated access to current and reliable terms from different subject fields and languages is necessary for content creators and translators. Terminology is also needed in AI applications such as machine translation, speech recognition, information extraction, and other natural language processing tools. In this work, we facilitate standards-based sharing and management of terminology resources by providing an open terminology management solution - the EuroTermBank Toolkit. It allows organisations to manage and search their terms, create term collections, and share them within and outside the organisation by participating in the network of federated databases. The data curated in the federated databases are automatically shared with EuroTermBank, the largest multilingual terminology resource in Europe, allowing translators and language service providers as well as researchers and students to access terminology resources in their most current version.