The third collection of interviews with prominent terminologists has just been published by the Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament.
The book explores corpora, training, translation and terminology, termbase projects, lexicography, standards, and a lot more! Continue reading
The Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament is the publisher of two free e-books, each including twenty interviews with prominent terminologists.
There are academics, commercial lexicographers, lawyers, translators, quality managers, computational linguists, specialists in health and finance… which only scratches the surface of these people’s expertise.
The European Association for Terminology (EAFT), in collaboration with TermCoord, the Terminology Coordination Unit of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission, is organizing the Eighth European Terminology Summit in Luxembourg on 14–15 November 2016.
This morning I have a fun and edifying journey for you, in the form of a TED Talk by Erin McKean, lexicographer and creator of the online dictionary resource Wordnik (see this post about the dictionary on steroids).
The Tenth Cuba-Québec Symposium on Translation, Terminology and Interpretation will be held in Varadero, Cuba from 6 to 8 December 2016, and is organized by the Asociación Cubana de Traductores e Intérpretes (ACTI) and the Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ).
The Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament makes freely available e-books on the theme of Terminology.
For anyone working on financial / banking texts – this might be of interest. PricewaterhouseCoopers make available a 583-page publication entitled “Know Your Customer: Quick Reference Guide“.
The 2015 version contains information on 86 countries.
