Terminology management

Benefits of Terminology Management

• Higher translation quality. Using agreed terms ensures consistent wording across a company’s documents and materials.
• Shorter turnaround times and lower costs. Ready-made glossaries allow translators to find approved equivalents more quickly and reduce the time needed to agree terminology.
• Reduced risk of errors. Recorded terms and rules for their use help avoid ambiguity and inconsistency in translations.
• Easier collaboration between departments. Shared terminology decisions help employees in different departments understand professional concepts in the same way and use agreed wording.
• Consistency in long-term cooperation. Using glossaries helps keep translations consistent across different documents and projects, including when several translators are involved.

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The Main Stages of Terminology Work

Terminology work within a translation project may include the following stages:

1. Document analysis. Reviewing the source materials, identifying the subject area and picking out key terms.
2. Term extraction and selection. Identifying professional concepts, checking how they are used and determining preferred wording.
3. Glossary creation. Organising terms with their translation equivalents and, where the project requires it, definitions and usage context.
4. Terminology approval. Clarifying disputed terms and agreeing translation equivalents with the client or subject-matter specialists.
5. Using the glossary in translation. Applying the agreed terms in project documents and checking that they are used consistently.
6. Updating terminology data. Adding new terms to the glossary and revising existing entries as needed.

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Terminology Management for Multilingual Companies

For companies operating in international markets, consistent terminology is especially important. The same concepts may be translated differently by different departments, in different projects and in different versions of documents. This makes materials harder to align and increases the risk of professional terms being interpreted ambiguously.

Scriptae Agency helps companies organise their terminology within translation projects, compile glossaries and maintain consistent professional wording across multilingual documentation. Where necessary, we can help tidy up existing glossaries and adapt them for further use in translation work.

If your company needs to agree the translation of key concepts, prepare a glossary for regular work with documentation or ensure consistent terminology across multilingual materials, contact Scriptae Agency. We will help find a solution that suits the subject matter of your documents, your language pairs and the aims of your project.