ERIC ED413749: Rail-lex Slovenia--A Modern Railway Dictionary (Joint Venture Case Study).

6 Pages·1995·0.11 MB·English

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FL 024 770
ED 413 749
Jakopin, Primoz
AUTHOR
Rail-lex Slovenia--A Modern Railway Dictionary (Joint
TITLE
Venture Case Study).
PUB DATE 1995-00-00
5p.; In: Language Resources for Language Technology:
NOTE
Proceedings of the TELRI (Trans-European Language Resources
Infrastructure) European Seminar (1st, Tihany, Hungary,
September 15-16, 1995); see FL 024 759.
Speeches/Meeting Papers (150)
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*Computational Linguistics; Computer Software;
DESCRIPTORS
*Dictionaries; Foreign Countries; Language Research;
*Language Standardization; *Languages for Special Purposes;
Lexicography; Linguistic Theory; *Rail Transportation;
*Slovenian; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Vocabulary
Europe; *Slovenia
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
Rail-lex Slovenia is a project to develop a dictionary of
railway terminology in the Slovenian language, part of a larger undertaking
of the International Union of Railways to develop a modern, multilingual
communication infrastructure. Participating organizations represent 22
European languages. Two partners in
he Rail-lox Slovc,:nia vcnture aro the-
Slovenian Railways and the Institute for Slovenian Language. The dictionary
is scheduled to be completed by the end of 1998. Main topics of the
dictionary are listed in this paper in German. Keywords from the main
Rail-lex project are being translated into Slovenian to promote
standardization, and additional keywords reflecting the social and other
specific circumstances of Slovenia are being added to form a 15,000-headword
dictionary.
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A Modern Railway Dictionary
Rail -lex Slovenia
(Joint Venture Case Study)
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The two partners involved in the joint venture
are the Railway Traffic
Institute, part of the Slovenian Railways and the Institute for Slovenian
Language, which is part of the Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts. The work
on the project, Dictionary of
Railway Terminology (Zeleznigki terminologki slovar), began in January 1994
and is to be completed in five years by the end of 1998.
The dictionary is part of a larger European undertaking, Rail-lex Europe,
which is a coordinated effort of 29 members of the UIC, Union Inter-
nationale des Chemins de fer (International Union of Railways). UIC consists
of 97 railway and transport organizations from Europe and other parts of the
world. The aim of the Rail-lex project, which started in 1990 and produced
a CD-ROM Rail Lexic with 12 000 headwords and 102 topics in 4 languages
(English, German, French, and Italian) in 1994, is to put together
a modern,
multilingual communication infrastructure. This infrastructure should
pro-
mote links between the railways themselves, between railways and industry,
and between research and commerce and should contribute to the standard-
ization of railway terminology.
Table 1 gives the main topics of the UIC dictionary (in German to il-
lustrate better the engineering spirit of the field):
Maschinentechnik
Kraftwagen, Schiffe
Fahrdynamik, Spurfuehrungstechnik
Fahrzeug Eisenbahn-Triebfahrzeug (gem. Terme)
ETrieb-fahrzeug
Brennkraft:Triebfahrzeug
Dampf- Triebfahrzeug
Wagen (gemeinsame Terme)
Wagen: Personenverkehr
Wagen: Gueterverkehr
Fahrzeugteil, -aufbau (gemeinsame Terme)
Fahrzeugteil, -aufbau Personenverkehr
Fahrzeugteil, -aufbau Gueterverkehr
Kupplung
Laufwerk
Wagenkastensteuerung
Fahrzeugantrieb Kraftuebertragung
Bremse, Bremsdienst
Elektrotech. Anlagen, Elektr. Energie
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Werke
Nachrichtentechnik
Personal, Soziales
Recht
Planung, Kontrolle, Revision
Rechnungswesen
Unternehmenspraesentation
Organisation, Datenverarbeitung, Information
Managementorganisation
Bueroorganisation und -kommunikation
Datenverarbeitung
Information, Dokumentation, Statistik
Finanzen
Verkehrswesen, Marketing, Angebotsentwicklung
Verkauf, Verkaufsabwicklung, Servicebetriebe
Produktionbetr. Infrastrukturplanung
Allgemeine Technik, Neue Verkehrssysteme
Bautechnik, Neubaustrecken
Table 1. The main topics of Rail Lexic, in German
Two of the main topics, the largest and the one related to data processing,
are shown with their respective subtopics as well.
Rail-lex is coordinated by UICs European Rail Research Institute (ERRI),
which is based in the Netherlands. The languages of the partners who have
participated from the beginning of the project are English, German, French,
Spanish, Esperanto, Hungarian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, and
Italian,
Swedish. In the course of the project, the language pool has been enlarged by
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Ro-
manian, Russian, Slovak, and Slovenian.
On the Slovenian side, the head of the project is mag. Peter VerliC, leader
of the team at the Railway Traffic Institute, who is aided by Marjan Vrabl
and his team of railway experts in Maribor, the second largest Slovenian city.
That is also where, at the same time, a new set of railway codebooks, man-
uals, and other documentation are being prepared. Since Slovenia gained
independence in 1991, the changes needed to bring the railway closer to UIC
standards have to be made. The bulk of the keywords from Rail Lexic have
now been translated; and together with additional keywords, which reflect
the social and other specific circumstances in Slovenian railway, they now
form the first draft of a 15 000-headword dictionary:
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cas prometne konice
peak-traffic hours
peak-traffic period
rush hours
rush period
direktni vozni list
through consignment note
: vozni list na celotni
prevozni poti
drobljenje
fragmentation into packets
= delitev blokov informacij
= Division of information blocks
na fragmente zahtevane velikosti
into fragments of the size
za prenos (maks. dolzina
required for transmission
paketov je doloCena z
(maximum length of packets is
omre Ijem), ki se posredujejo
defined by the network) which
naenkrat
will be routed individually
duplikat voznega lista
duplicate of the consignment note
Table 2. Headword samples
The draft of the dictionary will be open to criticism from the railway itself
and from the wider audience until the end of 1996 when a linguistic revision
on the side of the Institute for the Slovenian Language will also be completed.
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