Retrieving terminological information on the net. Are linguistic tools still useful?

Tebé, Carles and Marcos, Mari-Carmen Retrieving terminological information on the net. Are linguistic tools still useful?, 2008 . In Tenth International ISKO Conference, Montreal, Canada, 5-8 August 2008. [Conference paper]

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In this communication we present a comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of search engines (SE) and linguistic tools (LT) to retrieve terminological information from the net, in the context of specialized translation tasks. For achieving that goal, an experiment with translators has been carried out. The results indicate that SE are more effective than LT in situations where the answer is partially ignored by the translator (i.e. the translator is hypothesizing one or several possible answers in the target language before searching). On the other hand, LT have not been either more appropriate in situations where the translator showed total ignorance of the possible answers before searching.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Search engines, Linguistic tools, Terminological information, Specialized translation
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology > LN. Data base management systems. L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines.
Depositing user:	Mari-Carmen Marcos
Date deposited:	20 Aug 2010
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:17
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14845

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