Jan 12, 2017 06:26
7 yrs ago
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Japanese term
名寄せ処理
Japanese to English
Tech/Engineering
Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright
Data & Analytics
Sentence:
※外国発明者人名は「名寄せ処理」を行なっておりません。人数が多めに算出されている可能性がございます。
Context:
The translation I'm working on is an excel file with statistics on patent applicants around the world. The sentence above is a footnote from a slide that shows the number of inventors (patent holders?) per year for the past two decades from a number of companies (i.e., Sony: 1993 — 82, 1994 — 20, etc.).
This site explains 名寄せ in Japanese:
http://www.graffe.jp/blog/651/
Essentially, 名寄せ is where you identify a unique individual from among heaps of data, but I just can't come up with a term for this in English that seems to fit.
Any help or advice is much appreciated.
※外国発明者人名は「名寄せ処理」を行なっておりません。人数が多めに算出されている可能性がございます。
Context:
The translation I'm working on is an excel file with statistics on patent applicants around the world. The sentence above is a footnote from a slide that shows the number of inventors (patent holders?) per year for the past two decades from a number of companies (i.e., Sony: 1993 — 82, 1994 — 20, etc.).
This site explains 名寄せ in Japanese:
http://www.graffe.jp/blog/651/
Essentially, 名寄せ is where you identify a unique individual from among heaps of data, but I just can't come up with a term for this in English that seems to fit.
Any help or advice is much appreciated.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 | search criteria |
nshimmachi
|
| 3 | Due diligence |
Patrick Hideo Kirby
|
| 3 | (be) disambiguated |
Port City
|
| 3 | Profile building |
Isely Mills
|
Proposed translations
58 mins
Patrick Hideo Kirby
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
Works in field
United Kingdom
Japanese-English Technical Translator
Native in: English 
Works in: Japanese to English, English, Japanese
Due diligence
Since this seems to refer to a specific process identifying unique individuals from existing data, perhaps "due diligence" might fit? Or "verification process"?
3 hrs
(be) disambiguated
"To date, methods used to disambiguate inventors in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database have been rule- and threshold-based (requiring and leveraging expert knowledge) or semi-supervised algorithms trained on statistically generated artificial labels."
http://www.cmu.edu/epp/disambiguation/
http://www.cmu.edu/epp/disambiguation/
10 hrs
Isely Mills
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Bridging Japan and the West
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Japanese to English
Profile building
I don't know if there is an official term for it, but having read about what 名寄せ is, this seems like a reasonable translation. I also like 'profile aggregation', but I think that is a bit ambiguous, so 'Profile building' seems good. I don't know that the English term needs to be super precise though, since the Japanese word isn't exactly explicit in it's meaning either.
4 days
nshimmachi
Japan
Japan
Native in Japanese
&
English
Japan
Fixer of Japanese Translation
Native in: Japanese (Variants: Kansai, Standard-Japan) 
, English
Works in: English to Japanese, Japanese to English
search criteria
don't know if this will answer but might be able to shed some light. the 名寄せ処理in this sentence is used to express the credibility of the data for foreign patent holders. it seems as for the Japanese name patent holders, the team has done some time of data reconciliation to confirm the data is correct. so in other words they wanted to say that the due diligence has been done for the Japanese names but not done for this one. I know, they should of just wrote it that way. But that's the beauty of Japanese Literature where you can hide your flaw's by covering it up with language.
Reference comments
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