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SDL MultiTerm

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Developer(s)
  
SDL Trados

Type
  
Terminology Software

Website
  
www.sdltrados.com

Operating system
  
Windows

License
  
Commercial

Stable release
  
SDL MultiTerm 2017 / November 2016

SDL MultiTerm is a terminology management tool, developed by SDL Trados, providing one solution to store and manage multilingual terminology.

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History

MultiTerm was launched in 1990 by Trados GmbH as a terminology database for translation professionals. Trados was acquired by SDL in 2005, with MultiTerm being renamed SDL MultiTerm.

About SDL MultiTerm

SDL MultiTerm Desktop is the desktop terminology management tool from SDL. It can be used by translators and terminologists as a standalone desktop tool to manage all your terminology, or it can be integrated with SDL Trados Studio to increase translation productivity and accuracy.

Features

SDL 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 Microsoft Excel,
  • Integrate with SDL Trados to improve translation consistency

    • Components of SDL 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 designed 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

    SDL MultiTerm 2017 Desktop is a Unicode application and can therefore be used only on Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10. SDL recommend at least a Pentium® IV-based computer with 2 GB RAM.

    Criticism

    Entering terms individually is a time consuming process. This is somewhat circumvented by the use of MultiTerm Widget to pre-build the glossary. Contrary to certain claims, the TBX interchange format (ISO 30042:2008) is not supported. Support for terminology relations is primitive.

    References

    SDL MultiTerm Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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