In his opening speech of the international LangTech 2008 conference in Rome, Karl Johann Lönnroth, Director General of DGT, European Commission, emphasized the importance of language technologies in the activities of EC and referred to the next generation translation productivity tools that are required to continue to increase translation efficiency and quality.

In this context, the article on Integration of Terminological Data in Translation Systems by Andrejs Vasiljevs and Signe Rirdance was met with great interest. It featured an overview of the EuroTermBank undertaking and outlined the next steps towards providing tools for integrating terminology content in multiple translation systems.

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