AUTOMOTIVE TERMINOLOGY IN ENGLISH AND SLOVAK: creating terminological entries in the domain of green cars for IATE

The aim of this dissertation is the creation of a terminology project of 50 entries in Slovak language. The domain of the project is green cars. The terminology resource was created as part of a project with the Terminology Coordination unit of the European Parliament (TermCoord), which is responsible for the managing of the IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) terminology database. The final result of the terminology project was presented to the TermCoord to be implemented into IATE. Apart from creating the resource, the results of the work conducted for this dissertation has lead to a deep analysis of the IATE database, putting the focus on the managing strategy of the resource and highlighting strong points and criticisms for the users of the database. The dissertation is composed of four chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to a theoretical overview of special languages and terminology, with a brief section dedicated to the building of corpora for terminology purposes. The second chapter presents the translation and terminology services at the EU institutions, which it was possible to analyse during the internship at the DGTranslation of the European Commission in Brussels. In the third chapter, the process for the extraction of the Slovak terms to input into the termbase is described, starting from the retrievement of terms in English and then analysisng the process to extract the Slovak equivalent to build the termbase. The fourth chapter analyses the results of the terminology research and illustrates the structure of the final monolingual termbase.