Computational Translational Lexicography and Terminography

Course: General and Domain-Specific Translation and Interpreting from French and English

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Computational Translational Lexicography and Terminography
Code
ННД.10
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 3. To implement the modern methods and techniques, namely informational, in order to perform a successful and effective professional activity and guarantee the quality of scientific research in a specific philological field. PLO 4. To assess and analyze critically the vital social, individual and professional issues and offer tactics of their solution, in difficult and unpredictable conditions, which requires the application of new approaches and forecasting. PLO 11. To perform a scholarly analysis of linguistic, speech and literary material, interpret and structure it considering expedient methodological principles, formulate summarizations based on the individually processed data. PLO 15. To choose the optimal research approaches and methods of analysis for the specific linguistic and literary material. PLO 17. To plan, organize, perform and present the research and or innovative developments in the field of translation.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Prerequisites for the discipline: 1) knowledge of computational technologies at the level of active user, command of Portuguese at a level, not lower than B1; 2) knowledge of theoretical background: basic linguistic concepts, particularly, in the field of lexical semantics.
Course content
During lectures the students master the basic characteristics and principles of construction of translational and terminological dictionaries study the advanced possibilities of searching for them to solve the problems of translation, as well as ways of ordering dictionaries (terminological, general -porous); the researching component comprehends studying the fundamental qualitative differences between paper and electronic dictionaries, ways of implementing certain functionality of dictionaries in their macro- and microstructure. During practical classes, students also learn to make requests in electronic and other reference resources to establish equivalent relations between multilingual units of different levels and to compile a simple relational database in order to create an electronic dictionary on its basis.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Комп’ютерні засоби у термінологічній роботі. Настанови щодо створювання та використовування термінологічних баз даних і текстових масивів: Р 50-082-2000 (ISO/TR 126/8: 1994). ДСТУ. – 2000. – 23 с. Фокін С.Б. Комп’ютерні інноваційні технології в перекладацькій та перекладознавчій діяльності. – К.: КНУ ім. Тараса Шечекна, 2019. – 254 с. Фокін С.Б. Двомовні перекладні словники: причини недосконалості та перспективи оптимізації // Мовні і концептуальні картини світу., 2017. – Вип. 59. – С.214-220. Фокін С.Б. Якісні відмінності між електронним та паперовим словником з погляду штучного інтелекту // Мовні і концептуальні картини світу, 2018. – Вип. 59. – С. 260-265. Фокін С.Б. Електронний словник синтаксем: організація мікроструктури та перспективи застосування // Science and Education a New Dimension. Humanities and Social Sciences, 2108. – 184. – С. 18-21.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, practical classes, individual work.
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment methods: oral answers, compilation a dictionary part (terminological, lexical), test. Assessment Criteria: Oral answers (LO 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.2, 2.4, 3.1)-max. 15 points; compilation of a part of terminological glossary (LO 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.4, 3.1)-max. 30 points; compilation of part of the common lexical dictionary (LO 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.4, 3.1-3.2, 4.1)-max. 30 points; test (LO 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.4, 3.1)-max. 25 points.
Language of instruction
French, Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Oleksii Orestovich Tkachenko
M. Zerov Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Romance Languages
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology