UTX, a simple glossary format

Yamamoto YujiJISC member

UTX Team Leader, AAMT

Representative, CosmosHouse

(Originally delivered on June 25, 2015. Modified in July 9, 2015)

Less is moreSimplification is a sophisticated process

AAMT (Asia-Pacific Association for MT)

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(Asia-Pacific)

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Language/translation consultant

UTX team leader

SDL Trados official instructor (fully SDL Certified)

YAMAMOTO Yuji (Representative, CosmosHouse)

What is UTX?

UTX stands for Universal Terminological eXchange

Developed by AAMT (Asia-Pacific Association for MT)

Simple glossary format for terminology tools and MT

For creating, sharing, and reusing glossary data

• Easy to create and manage on a spreadsheet

Simple tab-delimited

• Quality control via term statusReliable

• MT and termbase toolsConvertible to other formats

• Manage bilingual glossaries for both ways

Bidirectional bi/multilingual

4 merits of the UTX glossary format

UTX is non-expert friendly

• Systematic approach to translation is not yet fully developed in Japan.–No translation major in universities.

• There are many individuals and small LSPs who could benefit from standardized glossary formats.

• UTX is especially easy to use when you start creating a glossary.

UTX as a step towards a more complicated format (TBX)

No glossary TBX

No glossary

UTX TBX

This is the hard part!

Edit UTX glossaries on Excel

Standardized term status

UTX facilitates

sharing and reusing of glossaries

Translation Client

Language Service

ProviderTranslator A

UTX

glossaries

Translator B

UTX is Rule-based MT friendly

• Statistical MT is less accurate with Japanese.

– difference of language structures.

• In Japan, RbMT packages (Toshiba, Fujitsu, Cross Language, Kodensha, and more) are available.

• Some SMT (and hybrid MT) can also use UTX.

UTX can handle conversions to simple formats

• Some information might be lost, but still useful.

• Some users/tools don’t need the awesome power of TBX.

Conversion to/from UTX

MT

dictionaries

Termbases

Excel

UTX

glossaries

TBX

UTX Converter

UTX glossary sample

#UTX 1.11; en-US/zh-CN; 2014-09-25; copyright: AAMT (2012); license: CC-by 3.0

#src tgt src:pos term status

Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation

亚洲太平洋机器翻译协会 properNoun approved

dictionary administrator 字典管理员 noun approved

contributor 用语提交者 noun provisional

domain 领域 noun

glossary 词汇表 noun

bidirectional 双向 adjective approved

merge 合并 verb approved

Source term(American English)

Part of speech

Term statusTarget term (Chinese)

Manage essential glossary data in a standardized format

Information about the glossary (creation date, license, etc.)

Term status provides reliability

Use case examples

• 2.2 million entries (as of 2015) are created by the Japan Patent Office.

– Chinese-Japanese glossary

• Glossary data for MT/interpretation for tourism.

Conclusion

1. UTX can help non-experts.

2. A UTX glossary serves as a basis for a TBX glossary.

3. UTX addresses the need of MT for non-European languages (Japanese, Korean, etc.)

• Visit http://www.aamt.info/english/utx/for the specification and samples (free)

• Or search for “UTX glossary”

• We welcome your feedback!

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