Pooling and threading in translation term banks
Merle D. Tenney, Robert A. Russell · 1982
Bilingual end multillngual terminology data banks (term banks) have proven an effective aid to translation. The translation problem which has been most resistant tO term bank ass i s tance ~ however, i s that of ident i fy ing prec i se ly those t rans la t ions which are appropr ia te fo r a g iven term in a SL text. This i s compounded by the re la ted problems of SL homonymy and polysemy and TL synonymy. The greates t cha l lenge at the text leve l i s dynamica l ly spec i fy-ing the lex icon used in the sub l~age of a document. The so lu t ion to th i s problem depends somewhat on whether te rmino-logy i s he ld in one la rge bank, whic h promotes shar ing and comprehens iveness, or in many smal le r banks, wh iohencoura-ges independence and spec ia l i za t ion. The pr inc ip le approach to the t rans la t ion ident i f i ca t-i on problem hereto fore has cons is ted in f i l te r ing out i r-