{"id":4609,"date":"2016-01-29T11:18:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T10:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.wall-it.de\/gemino\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:50:41","slug":"managing-corporate-terminology-is-easier-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemino.de\/en\/managing-corporate-terminology-is-easier-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Corporate Terminology Is Easier Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do your various company media and departments already use technical terms without a terminology management strategy in place? Then it is time to do something about that! After all, the consistent use of defined terminology contributes to a homogeneous corporate language and enhances translation quality.<\/p>\n

But perhaps you are not overly keen on the effort of hiring experts or terminologists to dig through mountains of text and extract the technical terms.<\/p>\n

So is there a way to do this quicker and in a more cost-effective way?<\/p>\n

Yes, there is: automated term extraction from existing texts and subsequent inclusion of those terms in a terminology database. It takes only a fraction of the time needed for manual extraction.<\/p>\n

Tool-based automated term extraction works with texts in different file formats (Word, PDF, XML…) but also with bilingual Translation Memory files. The extraction criteria can be fine-tuned, e.g. by using stop word lists, maximum word count, minimum character count, minimum\/maximum number of occurrences, etc. The list of results is then revised by a terminologist afterwards and can then be translated, or the existing appropriate target-language terms can be added.<\/p>\n

The benefits of tool-based automated term extraction as compared to manual extraction are:<\/p>\n