SDL MultiTerm
Empowering effective and accurate global brand communications
As the market-leading terminology management solution, SDL MultiTerm helps companies manage their terms in one, centralized repository accessible by the whole organization. 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 and translator 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 and explanatory graphics
- Extract terms from existing and new content to quickly build a comprehensive dictionary
- Provide access to centralized terms for all content creators and translators
For nearly twenty years, SDL MultiTerm has been enabling complete control over an organization's most important asset: its terminology. A comprehensive solution, SDL MultiTerm provides solutions to extract, centralize and publish terms for use across the entire organization.
Extract
To ensure rapid deployment, SDL offers the two industry-approved term extraction methods for both mono- and bilingual documents:
- Linguistic extraction method, based on language-based rules and 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. 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
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 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 Global Authoring Management System™ 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.
Case Studies
Giesecke & Devrient Case Study
Giesecke & Devrient banks on a secure future with terminology management from SDL
Agfa HealthCare Case Study
By implementing SDL MultiTerm to manage corporate terminology and SDL Passolo for visual software localization, Agfa HealthCare has increased localized content quality from 75% to 95%, while simultaneously helping to bring new healthcare solutions to market 60% more quickly.White Papers
Managing Terminology with SDL MultiTerm White Paper
SDL MultiTerm has led the market for terminology management since 1990. It is a mature and proven solution, enabling corporate and industry terms to be stored and shared across the enterprise, including those within a distributed environment.
Product Brief
SDL MultiTerm 2007 Product Brief
Managing terminology is a critical aspect of every Global Information Management strategy. To protect the brand, accelerate time-to-market and ensure consistency in both source and target languages, terms must be managed and shared across the organization.
SDL MultiTerm Extract Product Brief
SDL MultiTerm Extract™ automatically identifies and extracts mono- and bilingual terminology from existing documentation with a powerful statistical analysis. It is compatible with all languages.
