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The "Information Mining and Terminology" (InMiTe) module is one of the two modules that make up the "Technologies for Translation" course, together with "Computer-Assisted Translation and Post-editing" (CatPed); the latter is held by Prof. Claudia Lecci.

The InMiTe module is split, in turn, into two sub-modules, the first one of which ("Information mining") is held by Prof. Adriano Ferraresi, while the second one is held by Prof. Christian Olalla Soler.

The "Information Mining" sub-module, which will be held during the first 5 weeks of the semester, presents the main online and offline tools and methods to retrieve and process information both for specialised translation and revision tasks, and for terminological and terminographic applications. Specifically, the following contents will be convered:

• Advanced techniques for web searching using online search engines;
• Construction of specialised electronic corpora, both adopting manual methods and semi-automatic ones;
• Methods to retrieve terminological information in specialised corpora (concordances, clusters, collocates, frequency lists, keywords);
• Advanced methods for consultation of online reference corpora (Corpus Query Language).

The "Terminology" sub-module, which will be held during the last 5 weeks of the semester, presents the main concepts and methods of terminology and terminography which will allow the students to carry out their terminology project. The following contents will be covered:

• Core concepts of terminology: general vs. specialized language; the concept of term; term relationships; neologisms; the link between culture, metaphors and language; socioterminology.
• Methods to extract terminological units.
• Methods to systematize and visualize relationships among terminological units.
• Methods to plan, structure and feed terminology databases and glossaries with a special focus on OmegaT and SDL MultiTerm.

The "Computer-Assisted Translation " (CAT) module is delivered in the firs semester and is one of the two modules that make up the "Translation Technologies" course.

This module focuses on the concept of computer-aided translation (CAT). After providing a theoretical introduction, some of the main CAT tools on the market (SDL Trados Studio, MemoQ, MateCat, OmegaT), both proprietary and free, will be presented. In particular, the module focuses on the translation of different file formats and on the creation, management and maintenance of translation memories.

Students will work on customising the quality assurance of target texts through CAT and they will also use regular expressions to create specific display filters and to set up targeted search operations.
Moreover, students will learn how to manage compatibility and interoperability between different CAT tools and different file formats.

Finally, students will acquire the skills and abilities to manage complex translation projects involving different professionals (Project Management).

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