SDL MultiTerm

Empowering Effective and Accurate Communications

The market-leading terminology management solution, SDL MultiTerm helps companies manage their terms in a centralized repository. Linguistically powerful and capable of managing any amount of terms in a limitless number of languages, it guarantees the delivery of the right word to the right author at the right time.

Managing terminology requires more than a simple word list or spreadsheet. Global organizations need the ability to:

• Create a centralized repository of all terminology in every language
• Capture any data about a term required, including antonyms, explanatory graphics and even usage recommendations
• Extract terms from all existing and new content to immediately build a comprehensive dictionary
• Provide access to centralized terms for all content creators and translators via network, intranet portal or web

Since 1990, SDL MultiTerm has been enabling complete control over an organization's most important asset: its terminology. It provides centralized access to approved terms, delivering accurate and consistent terminology throughout the authoring and translation processes. A comprehensive solution, SDL MultiTerm provides solutions to extract, centralize and publish terms for the organization's use.

Extract

To ensure companies can be immediately active, SDL offers the two industry-approved term extraction methods for both mono- and bilingual documents:

• Linguistic extraction method, based on sophisticated language-based rules and built-in dictionaries
• Statistical extraction method, based on the frequency of term candidate appearance

Centralize

Terms are stored in a central repository on a server, which captures limitless terms and supporting data. User-defined security administration ensures that only specified users can submit or edit terms, while others can only perform smart searching and view the results. Searching options include:

• Simple search to locate specific terms
• Wildcard search to locate all terms that contain a specific string of characters
• Fuzzy search to locate terms that are similar or contain part of the search text
• Multi-termbase search to locate a term that may exist in multiple terminology databases
• Full-text search, to locate a term that may exist anywhere within the complete termbase, including metadata

Publish

The terms held within the database can be shared over a number of media, ensuring read or write access for every author and translator, regardless of physical location or network connectivity, including:

• A client/server application
• Any standard web browser
• A powerful yet easy-to-use export function, for those not granted access to sensitive network architecture
• A thick client for remote access
• From within other business applications, via XML and SOAP. Out-of-the-box integrations include:

• SDL MultiTerm seamlessly integrates with SDL AuthorAssistant to verify terms during the point of creation in popular authoring tools such as Microsoft® Word, Adobe® FrameMaker®, XMetaL® and Arbortext Editor
• SDL MultiTerm seamlessly integrates with SDL Trados 2007 to deliver real-time term verification during the translation process.