Quality of Estonian-language academic texts

In accordance with the language and internationalisation principles of the University of Tartu, doctoral researchers and their supervisors make sure that all non-Estonian doctoral dissertations include summaries in plain Estonian.

If you need your academic text translated into Estonian or your non-Estonian text language edited, contact a professional translation service provider. For example, a price offer request submitted via the website of the Association of Estonian Translation Companies is forwarded simultaneously to all its members. To help ensure the quality of Estonian-language texts, it is also possible to make use of the services of academic editors through cooperation with the Estonian Language Editors' Association. If you are looking for an experienced language editor for your Estonian-language thesis, summary, or other academic text, complete the enquiry form on the association’s website. The association will then send the enquiry to 15 editors with experience in academic text editing, who will contact you directly.


Academic text editing is currently offered primarily in the following fields:

  • Humanities and the arts: art studies, linguistics, literary studies, educational sciences, translation studies, semiotics, folklore studies, theatre studies, museology, history, anthropology, culture;
  • Social sciences: economics, law, national defence, society, politics, religion, communication studies, other social science topics;
  • Medical sciences: all specialisations;
  • Natural sciences and exact sciences: botany, ecology, geography, geology, zoology, maritime studies, information technology, mathematics, statistics, physics;
  • In addition: military studies, internal security and military history.


Even if your doctoral thesis concerns a subject not listed above, it is still worth contacting the association: a language editor can provide proofreading services, including the correction of spelling errors, the standardisation of terminology and the formatting of references, even when they are not a specialist in the field concerned.

→ Submit an enquiry for academic editing to the Estonian Language Editors’ Association


Terminology support

Under the administrative contract concluded with the Ministry of Education and Research, the University of Tartu promotes Estonian-language terminology and makes research results available in Estonian. Every doctoral researcher contributes to this goal.

There are several terminology committees and working groups at the University of Tartu that develop and update Estonian terms in their respective fields. If you need assistance with translating a term into Estonian or drafting a definition, you can make use of various internal and external databases or consult terminology specialists and terminology committees.

Terminology databaseNotes

Interinstitutional terminology database of the European Union IATE

One of the most reliable and comprehensive terminology databases, containing terms from all fields used in EU legislation. Terms can be searched in 23 languages.

Online gateway to EU Law EUR-Lex

If a term cannot be found in IATE, it may be searched for in EU legislation. Legal texts can be displayed in parallel in up to three languages.

Note! To search for an English term, you must also change the website interface language to English using the option in the top right-hand corner.

Term collections in Sõnaveeb

Note! The collections are very extensive, but the quality of entries is uneven.

Data protection and information security portal AKIT

Contains IT and other technical terms. Even if the suggested term is not suitable, the explanations provided can help you closer to a viable solution. Contact person: Anto Veldre, [email protected]

Some of the information is outdated, and some of the sources are now available through Sõnaveeb.

A collection of general and specialist dictionaries. It includes an excellent thesaurus for finding synonyms.

Includes general-language, official-language and multilingual dictionaries.

Faculty

Subject

Database

Contact person

HV

archaeology

Kätlin Jansons, [email protected];
Marge Konsa, [email protected]

HV

performing arts

Kai Valtna, [email protected];
Ele Viskus, [email protected];
Lennart Peep, [email protected];
Anu Sööt, [email protected]

HV

philosophy

Mats Volberg, [email protected]

HV

corpus linguistics

Liina Lindström, [email protected];
Ann Veismann, [email protected];
Maarja-Liisa Pilvik, [email protected];
Kadri Muischnek, [email protected];
Jane Padrik, [email protected]

HV

craft research

Ave Matsin, [email protected]

HV

semiotics

Mats Volberg, [email protected];
Silvi Salupere, [email protected];
Kalevi Kull, [email protected]

SV

design

Kaisa Raadik, [email protected],
Karit Jäärats, [email protected]

SV

behavioural and social sciences

there is no term base, but advice can be sought from the contact person

Dagmar Kutsar, [email protected]

SV

project management

Taavi Tamberg, [email protected];
Gözell Haug, [email protected];
Karit Jäärats, [email protected]

SV

social science data collection and analysis methods

Mai Beilmann, [email protected]

SV

service and tourism sector

Anne Roosipõld, [email protected];
Karit Jäärats, [email protected]

SV

law

Sirje Kupp-Sazonov, [email protected]

MV

end-of-life and death

Piret Upser, [email protected]

MV

pharmacy

Andres Soosaar, [email protected]

MV

patient safety

Kaja Põlluste, [email protected]

MV

public health

MV

nursing and midwifery

LT

analytical chemistry

Koit Herodes, [email protected];
Ivo Leito, [email protected]

LT

botany and plant names

Kersti Tambets, [email protected];
Ott Luuk, [email protected]

LT

physics

Kaido Reivelt, [email protected]

LT

mathematics

LT

statistics

Ene-Margit Tiit, [email protected];
Liina-Mai Tooding, [email protected]

SV

indexing and information retrieval

Tiiu Tarkpea, [email protected];
Jaanika Anderson, [email protected]

LT

space technology and space research

Laurits Leedjärv, [email protected]