Events

2020

On December 4, 2020, DVITAS researchers conducted a scientific webinar “Cybersecurity and Terminology”. The webinar was attended by over 50 participants (translators from Lithuanian and EU institutions, terminologists, teachers of language for specific purposes, cybersecurity researchers and practitioners, lawyers and representatives of other professions).

In the seminar, the project manager Andrius Utka (VMU) presented the goals and objectives of the project, as well as the work done during the first half-year. Sigita Rackevičienė (MRU) demonstrated the computer software QuickTag created by the project programmer Aivaras Rokas (VDU). The software is used to annotate the cybersecurity texts, i.e. to label the relevant terms in them; these texts will be used as training data for neural networks developed for automatic extraction of terminology from large-scale corpora. Sigita Rackevičienė also presented the peculiarities of the Lithuanian cybersecurity terminology: the main categories of concepts designated by the terms, synonymous terms and their formation, problems of hybrid (English-Lithuanian) terms. Marius Laurinaitis (MRU) presented legal cybersecurity issues in the USA, and the invited guest of the webinar – the head of the National Cybersecurity Center Rytis Rainys told about the cybersecurity situation in Lithuania today. Throughout the webinar, its participants actively asked questions on both cybersecurity and terminology issues, shared their observations and participated in a survey in which they expressed their preferences on the cybersecurity terminology formation patterns presented by the webinar organisers. The results of the survey:

Recording of webinar

2021

On December 16, 2021, DVITAS researchers conducted a scientific webinar “Management of Cybersecurity Terms”. Terminologists of the following Lithuanian and EU institutions were invited: representatives of The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (SCLL), Institute of the Lithuanian Language Institute (ILL) and translations departments of the EU institutions (EU Council, EU Parliament and EU Commission)

At the beginning of the webinar, Andrius Utka (VMU), the project manager, gave a short presentation about the project and its tasks and problematic issues, which were discussed at the webinar. Sigita Rackevičienė (MRU) presented the results of the analysis of the Lithuanian corpus annotated during the project and the cybersecurity term usage tendencies identified during the analysis. Special attention was paid to the English terms used in Lithuanian texts and to English-Lithuanian hybrids. The types of their usage and contextual examples illustrating them were discussed. In the second part of the webinar, Andrius Utka discussed the structure of the term entry in various terminology resources and the planned structure of the term entry in the termbase being developed by the project participants. Sigita Rackevičienė demonstrated the already developed term entries on the term management platform “Terminologue”. It was very important for the DVITAS participants to hear the opinion of the webinar guests about the collected cybersecurity terms, recommendations on which of them should be included in the DVITAS termbase, and how synonymous terms should be managed. The invited participants of the webinar willingly shared their experiences. Alvydas Umbrasas (SCLL) talked about term management at the Term Bank of the Republic of Lithuania. Milda Kisielienė (EU Council), Nerijus Prekevičius (EU Parliament), Viktorija Rudėnaitė (EU Parliament) and Inga Klein (EU Parliament) shared their experience in managing terms in the EU terminology database IATE. Vidas Valskys (SCLL) informed about the NATO terminology dictionary currently being updated. Asta Mitkevičienė (ILL) demonstrated the term management platform being developed by Eurotermbank. The experiences and opinions shared by the terminology specialists will be very useful for the DVITAS participants and will help to decide on the most important terminology management principles to be applied in development of the cybersecurity termbase.

2022

On 18 March 2022, the CLARIN-LT, DVITAS and ARKA projects hosted a virtual scientific seminar "CLARIN-LT: State-of-the-art digital resources and research", inviting researchers working on research projects that develop open access Lithuanian language resources for researchers, teachers and students in the social sciences and humanities.
The seminar was attended by researchers from five Lithuanian universities, namely VU, VMU, KTU, KU and MRU. DVITAS project’s researchers A. Utka and S Rackevičienė gave the presentation “Bilingual Automatic Term Recognition”, where they introduced the resources developed by the project DVITAS and made available for open access. Besides, they took part in a discussion on the importance of open access Lithuanian language data.
Link to the seminar webpage: http://clarin-lt.lt/?page_id=458