Information and Terminological Research

ltrad2005  2026-2027  Louvain-la-Neuve

Information and Terminological Research
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5.00 credits
15.0 h + 30.0 h
Q1
Language
French
Main themes
The teaching unit is structured around three main themes:  
  • the documentary and terminological acquisition process essential to any specialized translation project;  
  • documentary and terminological resources useful to the translator;  
  • the use of corpora as translation aids. 
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Contribution of teaching unit to learning outcomes assigned to programme 
This unit contributes to the acquisition and development of the following learning outcomes, as assigned to the Master's degree in translation: 
  • carry out research to evaluate the relevance and reliability of information sources with regard to translation needs (3 – Translation); 
  • use the most relevant IT applications, including the full range of office software, and adapt rapidly to new tools and IT resources having critically assessed their relevance and the impact of change on their work practices (15 – Technology); 
  • make effective use of search engines, corpus-based tools, text analysis tools, computer-assisted translation (CAT) and quality assurance (QA) tools where appropriate (16 – Technology). 
Specific learning outcomes on completion of teaching unit 
On completing this unit the student is able to: 
  • master documentary vocabulary; 
  • distinguish between primary, secondary and tertiary documents; 
  • search library catalogues and databases; 
  • use search engine search methods, whether AI-based or not; 
  • effectively query conversational agents; 
  • query terminology databases; 
  • evaluate the quality of selected documents; 
  • compile an electronic corpus and use it for translation or terminology purposes with the help of a concordance tool. 
 
Faculty or entity
> LSTI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] in Translation
TRAD2M
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