The description of named entities in terminological knowledge bases has never been addressed in any depth in terminology. Firm preconceptions, rooted in philosophy, about the only referential function of proper names have presumably led to disparage their inclusion in terminology resources, despite the relevance of named entities having been highlighted by prominent figures in the discipline of terminology. Scholars from different branches of linguistics depart from the conservative stance on proper names and have foregrounded the need for a novel approach, more linguistic than philosophical, to describing proper names. Therefore, this paper proposed a linguistic and terminological approach to the study of named entities when used in scientific discourse, with the purpose of representing them in EcoLexicon, an environmental knowledge base designed according to the premises of Frame-based Terminology. We focused more specifically on named rivers (or potamonyms) mentioned in a coastal engineering corpus. Inclusion of named entities in terminological knowledge bases requires analyzing the context that surrounds them in specialized texts because these contexts convey specialized knowledge about named entities. For the semantic representation of context, this paper thus analyzed the local syntactic and semantic contexts that surrounded potamonyms in coastal engineering texts and described the semantic annotation of the predicate-argument structure of sentences where a potamonym was mentioned. The semantic variables annotated were the following: (1) semantic category of the arguments; (2) semantic role of the arguments; (3) semantic relation between the arguments; and (4) lexical domain of the verbs. This method yielded valuable insight into the different semantic roles that named rivers played, the entities and processes that participated in the events educed by potamonyms through verbs, and how they all interacted. Furthermore, since arguments are specialized terms and verbs are relational constructs, the analysis of argument structure led to the construction of semantic networks that depicted specialized knowledge about named rivers. These conceptual networks were then used to craft the thematic description of potamonyms. Accordingly, the semantic network and the thematic description not only constituted the representation of a potamonym in EcoLexicon, but also allowed the geographic contextualization of specialized concepts in the terminological resource.

Un componente fundamental del mercado del libro es la traducción editorial, cuya profesionalización arraiga en el siglo xx. Aunque buena parte de los títulos más leídos son traducciones, el mercado del libro en España es tan singular que solo un pequeño porcentaje de los traductores editoriales asociados puede dedicarse por entero a la traducción de libros como actividad profesional. A este panorama se añade que, con frecuencia, los alumnos de los estudios en Traducción e Interpretación que desean adentrarse en el mercado de la traducción editorial desconocen la realidad de su funcionamiento. Para solventar esta carencia, los propios alumnos, como parte de un trabajo de campo, han entrevistado a dos editores y a siete profesionales de la traducción literaria. Las entrevistas que se presentan en este trabajo contribuyen no solo a conocer ciertos aspectos del mercado de la traducción editorial en España, sino también a aclarar algunas dudas de aquellos traductores que abrigan la intención de labrarse un futuro profesional en él.

EcoLexicon is a terminological knowledge base on environmental science, whose design permits the geographic contextualization of data. For the geographic contextualization of landform concepts, this paper presents a semi-automatic method for extracting terms associated with named rivers (e.g., Mississippi River). Terms were extracted from a specialized corpus, where named rivers were automatically identified. Statistical procedures were applied for selecting both terms and rivers in distributional semantic models to construct the conceptual structures underlying the usage of named rivers. The rivers sharing associated terms were also clustered and represented in the same conceptual network. The results showed that the method successfully described the semantic frames of named rivers with explanatory adequacy, according to the premises of Frame-Based Terminology.

Una de las preocupaciones de los alumnos de último curso y recién egresados del Grado en Traducción e Interpretación (TeI) es su futuro profesional en este ámbito. Con el objetivo de aclarar las dudas de los estudiantes ante su escasa –o inexistente– experiencia en el mercado laboral de la traducción audiovisual, se exploró, con un trabajo de campo, cómo es el mercado laboral de esta especialidad. Este artículo describe la experiencia y presenta los resultados de la exploración. Para ello, se realizaron entrevistas a tres gerentes de empresas que ofrecen servicios de traducción audiovisual, así como a siete profesionales que trabajan en este campo. La información que se recaba con las entrevistas permite esbozar una panorámica de la realidad profesional del traductor audiovisual y su mercado laboral, y favorece que los futuros egresados en TeI barajen la posibilidad de adentrarse en esta especialidad con una visión más atinada y constructiva.