{"id":1278,"date":"2025-07-28T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LTD\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:08:15","slug":"ata-tektalks-is-oneclick-terms-the-right-tool-for-you-an-ata-language-technology-division-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LTD\/ata-tektalks-is-oneclick-terms-the-right-tool-for-you-an-ata-language-technology-division-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA TEKTalks: Is OneClick Terms the Right Tool for You? An ATA Language Technology Division Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Anne Chemali<\/i><\/p>

July 28, 2025<\/i><\/p>

The ATA Language Technology Division (LTD) held its quarterly ATA TEKTalk on July 10, 2025, featuring Ond\u0159ej Matu\u0161ka, a linguist and the head of sales at SketchEngine, a corpus system developed by Lexical Computing, a company based in Brno, in Czech Republic. His role includes promoting the use of corpora among linguists and language professionals and running training events and workshops. Ond\u0159ej also contributes to developing the user interface and improving the user experience of SketchEngine.<\/p>

SketchEngine is a comprehensive language analysis system used by various language professionals including linguists, teachers, translators, interpreters, and lexicographers. While the system contains many tools primarily designed for academic language research, one particular feature – terminology extraction – is especially valuable for translators and interpreters.<\/p>

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The developers created a separate, simplified web interface called OneClick Terms. It is designed to be streamlined and user-friendly, with a simple “START HERE” button.<\/p>

What it term extraction and how is it done?<\/b><\/p>

Term extraction refers to identifying words or phrases that have a specific meaning in a given context, or in a specific document. Linguists use term extraction to build a list of phrases which need to be translated with special care or need to be considered with special attention, because they carry an important meaning in the document. It is the preliminary work before building a glossary for your translation or for your interpreting assignment, which you can then use in association with a CAT tool or any other equivalent tool.<\/p>

The best terminology extraction tool will always be the human brain, Ond\u0159ej said. The quality of human extraction is in fact very high, but unfortunately, the speed is also very slow. If you’ve got a document of two pages, the best way to extract terminology is just to read it and underline the terms. But if you’ve got 100,000 pages, it\u2019s impossible to do so. So, how do we imitate the human brain?<\/p>

What the human brain does to identify terminology is to somehow take what it reads and compare it to its linguistic experience, to what it knows, or to what it has in its memory about the language. OneClick Terms was designed to emulate the human brain\u2019s tasks.<\/p>

OneClick Terms interface Demo<\/b><\/p>

\u00a0<\/b>The interface is designed to be user friendly and is so intuitive that the learning curve is extremely flat. Note that 36 languages are currently supported. Languages appearing in the language list with a yellow star offer \u00a0a higher level of support. To start a term extraction, the user selects two languages and then clicks on the \u201cSTART HERE\u201d button.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The terminology extraction tool offers three ways to extract terms: from monolingual texts, from bilingual aligned texts (like translation memories in TMX or XLIFF format), or from unaligned bilingual texts that are translations of each other, which the system will automatically align.<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0Monolingual extraction process:<\/b> The demonstration used an English PDF from the Official Journal of the European Union. The tool extracts text, assigns parts of speech, analyzes morphology (gender, case, etc.), and categorizes results into single words (useful for acronyms and product names) and multi-word phrases. Terms are presented in their basic forms (singular, first case) regardless of how they appear in the document.<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0Bilingual extraction process:<\/b> Using English and Spanish versions of the same EU document, the tool converts text to plain text, assigns grammatical properties, considers language-specific rules (like gender agreement between adjectives and nouns), aligns terms between documents, and presents multiple translation candidates with the ability to view source sentences for verification.<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0The performance advantage:<\/b><\/p>

The goal of OneClick Terms is to find the right balance between extracting terms that are not really terms and missing an important term in the document.<\/p>

\u00a0Here’s a summary of the top features mentioned for increasing linguist productivity:<\/span><\/p>

\u00a01.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>OneClick Terms considers the grammar and linguistics rules of each language, not just statistics.<\/span><\/p>

\u00a02.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Cleaner output with less noise: OneClick Terms produces much cleaner results compared to other terminology extraction tools, meaning there are fewer irrelevant or incorrect terms in the output.<\/span><\/p>

3.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Faster review process: Because the output contains less noise and irrelevant information, linguists can work through the extracted terms more quickly and efficiently.<\/span><\/p>

4.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Standardized term presentation: Terms are automatically presented in their basic grammatical forms (singular, base case) rather than in the various declined, plural, or case-specific forms they might appear in within the source text. It handles morphological variations across different languages.<\/span><\/p>

5.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The ultimate word selection belongs to the users: They can accept one of the recommended terms, enter a new term of choice, or they can eliminate some terms from the termbase export altogether.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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User settings<\/b><\/p>

OneClick Terms offers several customization settings to refine terminology extraction results:<\/p>

Deny list feature:<\/b> Users can exclude specific words from results by copying\/pasting terms or uploading a file containing words to be filtered out.<\/span><\/p>

Character requirements, including:<\/b><\/p>