Language assets
Terminology extraction and termbase
Find bilingual term candidates, review them, and link approved terms to reusable glossary entries.
Terminology extraction proposes bilingual term candidates from your document. Review their meaning, choose a compatible glossary or create one, and approve the terms worth keeping. Approval into a glossary records a link to the reusable entry. The extraction record keeps the original candidate while showing the linked entry and its current translation. Available from Freelance upward.
A free account includes one extraction a month in the Terminology tab. Review the candidates, correct a translation where needed, and choose Accept for the ones you want to keep. Accepted terms can be downloaded as a CSV spreadsheet. The other language asset tabs, and saving terms into a glossary, come with a paid plan. A failed extraction does not use up the month's allowance.
How extraction works
Step by step with screenshots: Terminology extraction.
- Extraction starts from a document uploaded on the Terminology tab, or from Extract terms beside a completed translation in Documents, including a PDF.
- Candidates are the vocabulary that carries the document's meaning, not every noun. Each shows the source term, a proposed translation and how often it appears.
- Approved candidates go to a glossary with the same language pair, or to a new glossary created during review, and can be downloaded as CSV. Different translations of the same source are kept as alternatives with usage labels.
Review context and existing entries
Review context is available beside each extraction candidate. Source context shows up to three bounded excerpts containing the term. New extractions retain these excerpts, including terms extracted from uploaded files. Older document extractions can use saved source segments; an older upload without stored context needs to be extracted again.
Choosing one of your glossaries with the same language pair shows its existing source entries. The review distinguishes an existing bilingual pair from a different translation. Approving an existing pair reuses that entry; approving a different target preserves alternatives. Related extraction candidates group the same source wording, ignoring capitalization and outer spaces, within your termbase and language pair. The lists show up to 20 entries each. This is literal grouping, not automatic merging of inflected or semantically similar terms.
Review context does not approve, modify or delete anything. Editing, approving and rejecting happen with the candidate's own controls. The glossary selected for comparison does not change the approval destination in the extraction list. Source excerpts are evidence of occurrence, not proof that the proposed target is correct.
Extraction proposes; the reviewer decides
Extraction is a starting list, not an approved glossary. It finds possible term pairs in material you have already translated and shows their frequency. Review each candidate for meaning and wording; rejected candidates are discarded. With Auto-approve enabled in Settings, candidates enter the approved terminology library immediately; they still need to be promoted to a glossary before that glossary can be used for translation.
Keep exploring
Glossary
Store approved term pairs for a language pair and apply them during text translation, document translation, and review.
Smart suggestions
Complete words and phrases from the active glossary, approved termbase entries, and Translation Memory while editing a target segment.
Document translation
Upload DOCX, PDF, XLSX, PPTX or bilingual XLIFF files, translate their text, and get the result back in the original file type.