MultiTerm is a

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management tool providing one solution to store and manage multilingual terminology.

History

MultiTerm was launched in 1990 by Trados GmbH as a terminology database for translation professionals. Trados was acquired by

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in 2005, with MultiTerm being renamed SDL MultiTerm. SDL merged with RWS in 2020, and the name reverted to MultiTerm.

About MultiTerm

MultiTerm Desktop is the desktop terminology management tool from RWS. It can be used by translators and terminologists as a standalone desktop tool to manage terminology, or it can be integrated with

Trados Studio Trados Studio is a computer-assisted translation software tool which offers a complete, centralised translation environment for editing, reviewing and managing translation projects and terminology- either offline in a desktop tool or online ...

to increase translation productivity and accuracy.

Features

MultiTerm allows the user to: *Customize termbases with descriptive fields to provide more information about the term *Insert digital media files and hyperlink to URLs to terms in the termbase *Store an unlimited number of terms in unlimited languages *Import and export terms from different technology environments, such as

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, *Integrate with

to improve translation consistency

Components of MultiTerm

*"MultiTerm Desktop" MultiTerm Desktop is a database application that allows the user to create, manage and present terminology. Terms can be added and searched in a wide variety of languages, allowing for consistent use of brand terms. *"MultiTerm Extract" MultiTerm Extract is a tool used to create glossaries of terminology using existing translated documents. The software does this by using a statistical algorithm to examine the frequency of terms at a sub-segment level. This allows translators to build project glossaries without having to manually search for the terms. *"MultiTerm Widget" MultiTerm Widget is a lightweight application that allows you to highlight a word from any application on your desktop and retrieve its meaning and translation immediately from your project glossaries and translation memories.

System requirements

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and can therefore be used only on

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. SDL recommend at least a

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Criticism

Entering terms individually is a time-consuming process. This is somewhat circumvented by the use of SDL's Glossary Converter, which allows terminology from other sources to be converted to a MultiTerm termbase, and by allowing translators to create term entries while translating in SDL Trados Studio. Contrary to certain claims, the TBX interchange format (ISO 30042:2008) is not supported. Whilst TBX files cannot be imported directly, they can be converted to a MultiTerm termbase by SDL Convert or SDL Glossary Converter. Support for terminology relations is only possible through the use of cross-references, but you cannot designate the type of relation between terms.

External links

www.rws.com
- Official RWS MultiTerm website.

References

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