Translating with termbases
Using termbases in your workflow reduces the time and effort spent on translating new documents.
Termbases are language resource repositories for industry-specific or organization-specific terminology. A termbase entry may include the term's translation for various languages, as well as additional information, like definition or context. Trados Studio can provide termbase translation suggestions from MultiTerm or the Trados Terminology provider.
You can lookup term translations in termbases and you can work interactively with the contents of the termbase as you translate documents. When you are translating documents in the Editor view, you open a termbase or a termbase is automatically opened.
- Open a termbase.
- Check the termbase source language to find terms for which the translation could be used. This happens automatically when you place your cursor in a segment.
- Insert the translated term found by the lookup to the current segment.
- Search the termbase for a specific word. You can use the results of the search in the current segment.
- As you complete a new translation, you can add new terms to the termbase or edit existing entries. The new translation is immediately available for use in the same document and other documents.
Default termbase selections and terminology recognition settings are defined in the Options dialog.
Terminology recognition options
Terminology recognition describes how Trados Studio compares the current source sentence with the data in MultiTerm. MultiTerm automatically suggests terms as you translate your documents. This allows you to work with your termbases from within the Trados Studio environment. Every known term that is similar to terms stored in the MultiTerm termbase is highlighted by a red bracketed line in the source segment text in the Editor window. In addition, the terms are displayed in the Term Recognition in the Editor view with their translation in the target language entry in MultiTerm.
Termbases and terminology recognition settings for the active document and active project are defined in the Project Settings dialog, under .
AutoSuggest Editing
Termbases can also be used as a source for AutoSuggest editing during translation. To use a termbase as an AutoSuggest source, you need to select the Termbases option in the AutoSuggest settings page ().