12.3 - STEP 2

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Step 2 - Project Termbase

In order to ensure consistent use of terminology in your future translation assignments it is necessary to record accepted terms and their translations. Before you continue, look back to Unit 4 and 8 and remember what you have learnt. Then do the following:

1. Create a new termbase in SDL MultiTerm and save it as "TECH(or EU)_Surname1_Surname2_Surname3".

2. Now go back to your excel file with the parallel corpus and pick at least 100 (150) terms. They may be either entire rows or only the phrases that you spotted at random.

3. Save this "preliminary" glossary to a separate excel file as "Pre_TECH(or EU)_Surname1_Surname2_Surname3".

4. Open SDL MultiTerm Convert and create a TBX file of your excel glossary. Use the same name as for the excel.

5. Go back to SDL MultiTerm and fill your empty termbase with the content of the TBX file.

 


Now move to Step 3.