The current tendency in Question Answering is towards the processing of large volumes of opendomain text. This inclination is spurred by the creation of the Question Answering track in TREC, and the recent increase of systems that use the Web to extract the answers to the questions. This undoubtedly has the advantage that narrow, application-specific concerns can be overlooked in favour of more...

This paper deals with the processing of a multilingual corpus of technical texts. The aim is to extract special purpose terminology. A semi-automatic tool is developed to help professional translators and terminologists not only to identify technical terms but also to detect possible translation equivalences and typical contexts of terms. Definitions of terminology reported in the literature ar...

Because of the increasing multidisciplinarity and multilinguality, communication problems in different technical fields grow more and more. Therefore, each technical field has its own specific language, terminology which is characterized by the different definition of terms. In addition to definition problems, there are also relation problems between terms. Among these problems of relation, the...

Japio performs various patent-related translation businesses, and owns the original patent-document-derived bilingual technical term database (Japio Terminology Database) to be used by the translators. Currently the database contains more than 1,000,000 J-E technical terms. The Japio Technical Field Dictionaries (technical-field-oriented machine translation dictionaries) are created from the Ja...

Japio performs various patent-related translation businesses, and owns the original patent-document-derived bilingual technical term database (Japio Terminology Database) to be used by the translators. Currently the database contains more than 1,900,000 J-E bilingual technical terms. The Japio Technical Field Dictionaries (technical-field-oriented machine translation dictionaries) are created f...