MultiTerm was launched in 1990 by Trados GmbH as a terminology database for translation professionals. Trados was acquired by SDL in 2005, with MultiTerm being renamed SDL MultiTerm.
About SDL MultiTerm
SDL MultiTerm Desktop is the desktop terminology management tool from SDL. It can be used by translators and terminologists as a standalone desktop tool to manage all your terminology, or it can be integrated with SDL Trados Studio to increase translation productivity and accuracy.
Features
SDL MultiTerm allows the user to:
Customize termbases with descriptive fields to provide more information about the term
Insert digital media files and hyperlink to URLs to terms in the termbase
Store an unlimited number of terms in unlimited languages
Import and export terms from different technology environments, such as Microsoft Excel,
Integrate with SDL Trados to improve translation consistency
Components of SDL MultiTerm
"MultiTerm Desktop"
MultiTerm Desktop is a database application that allows the user to create, manage and present terminology. Terms can be added and searched in a wide variety of languages, allowing for consistent use of brand terms.
"MultiTerm Extract"
MultiTerm Extract is a tool used to create glossaries of terminology using existing translated documents. The software does this by using a statistical algorithm to examine the frequency of terms at a sub-segment level. This allows translators to build project glossaries without having to manually search for the terms.
"MultiTerm Widget"
MultiTerm Widget is a lightweight application designed that allows you to highlight a word from any application on your desktop and retrieve its meaning and translation immediately from your project glossaries and translation memories.
Entering terms individually is a time-consuming process. This is somewhat circumvented by the use of SDL's Glossary Converter, which allows terminology from other sources to be converted to a MultiTerm termbase, and by allowing translators to create term entries while translating in SDL Trados Studio. Contrary to certain claims, the TBX interchange format is not supported. Whilst TBX files cannot be imported directly, they can be converted to a MultiTerm termbase by SDL Convert or SDL Glossary Converter. Support for terminology relations is only possible through the use of cross-references, but you cannot designate the type of relation between terms.
