Terminology Management

The larger the company, the greater the need for a common corporate language because not only is the ‘how’ of a documentation, i.e. the corporate design, decisive, but also the ‘what’, i.e. the common language. Terminology Management is especially important for the translation of large projects, which often involve several translators working simultaneously. Terminology Management requires an increased level of collaboration between the client and our linguists. For example, the client should specify the grammatical categories according to which a term should be recorded in the original language before it is then uploaded into the database in the appropriate languages. In addition to the technical terminology, organisation and definition of concepts, the following criteria should be coordinated in order to build up a meaningful terminology database:

• In-house and company-wide standardisation.
• Terminological definitions in connection with legal requirements.
• Definition of monolingual and multilingual company-specific product designations (also for corporate identity maintenance).
• Conversion of technical language into consumer-friendly or user-oriented language (technical documentation versus marketing texts).
• Monolingual and multilingual adaptation of linguistic (and cultural) requirements for the globalization or localization of processes and documentation.