When a translator begins to work as a true career, he or she believes that the job consists of simply receiving texts to be translated without any further data on the area of specialization. This is far from today’s reality. The translation industry right now is highly specialized by sector of the market. Therefore, each […]
Termbases are an important part of the process of translating any sort of text, but they are especially useful, to the point of being essential, when working with technical texts. As a policy, a translation with complicated vocabulary or terminology needs to be done with techniques and procedures that can ensure a good level of […]
This video offers a brief, succinct lesson on how to use MultiTerm as a plug-in in Trados Workbench, to create glossaries during a translation project.
I would just like to share this instructional video on generating Mutliterm termbase files from an Excel glossary, which is the most important step in the process, in my opinion:
Video in Spanish on how to process xml and xdt or mdb files to create a termbase in Multiterm.
When we are translating, surely we might want to add terms in order to complete our termbase or to search for a term in order to maintain the consistency of the translation. To search for a term: A. Go to the MultiTerm window and enter the term. If you don’t want to write the whole […]
1. Open MultiTerm. Then open the already created termbase. 2. Open the Workbench. Go to OPTIONS, and then go to TERM RECOGNITION OPTIONS and select your version of MultiTerm. 3. Click on EXAMINE and with a click on the + sign select the local termbase. Select the source and target languages. 4. When you click […]
These days it is impossible for a translator to do his or her job without using a computer. But let’s not forget that it wasn’t always like this… A few decades ago, before there was such a thing as advanced technology, translators worked only with pen and paper. Research was a very difficult aspect, since […]
1. Open MultiTerm. Go to TERMBASE > CREATE TERMBASE. 2. Choose the folder in which you want to save the database and click ACCEPT. 3. The Termbase Wizard will open. Click NEXT. 4. Select the option LOAD AN EXISTING TERMBASE DEFINTION FILE. Click BROWSE… to search for the .xdt file in your system. Once you’ve […]
In order to work with MultiTerm, first you must create a glossary for terminology in an Excel document, with the entries in column A and the translations in column B. You must import this glossary Excel file into the MultiTerm Convert program in the following way: 1. Open MultiTerm Convert. Click NEXT. 2. Click NEW […]