Workshop Outline/Aims

This one-day course will begin by covering the basics of efficient terminology mining on the WWW. It will then consider the creation and management of glossaries and other terminology record systems and it will train participants on how to find and exploit online glossaries and dictionaries. Finally, participants will be shown how to use Lingo 4.0, a dedicated and versatile dictionary management software application, to manage terminology by storing translations of single terms or phrases and recall them at will for re-use in subsequent translations.

Venue

The Riccarton campus of Heriot-Watt University is located just off the western side of the Edinburgh City bypass. The workshop will be held in room G20 in the School of Management & Languages (building no. 13 on the campus map). The Dept. of Languages staffroom is in the Henry Prais building (no. 13 on the campus map). Parking is available on Saturdays in the car park directly to the west of these buildings. Campus maps and public transport information may be viewed at/downloaded from http://www.hw.ac.uk/home/dir/51/edinburgh-campus-maps-and-directions. (NB: note that the campus map and detailed campus map are differently numbered!)