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Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of SDL Group. 4 MultiTerm Extract Tools User Guide Contents 1 Legal notice ............................................. 3 2 Using statical terminology extraction ............................. 1 About statistical terminology extraction . 2 Statistical extraction using SDL MultiTerm Extract . 2 3 About SDL MultiTerm Extract ................................... 3 Statistical extraction features in SDL MultiTerm Extract . 4 Supported languages . 4 Supported file formats . 4 Export formats . 6 Related documentation . 6 Accessing documentation . 7 4 Working with SDL MultiTerm Extract .............................. 9 SDL MultiTerm Extract projects . 10 Project types . 10 About Translation projects . 10 About QA projects . 11 Overview of the Term Extraction process . 11 Overview of the Term Extraction Process for QA Projects . 12 Creating a project . 13 Before you begin . 13 Saving a project . 28 Importing terms into translation projects . 29 Extracting terms . 29 Automatically extracting terms . 29 Manually extracting terms . 30 Text window . 31 SDL MultiTerm Extract Interface . 32 Term window . 33 Sorting Terms . 34 Deleting Terms . 34 Term Properties window . 34 Global operation buttons . 35 MultiTerm Extract Tools User Guide v Term and translation information . 35 Definition box . 36 Notebox.......................................... 36 Context information . 36 Concordance window . 36 Adding or deleting terms in the Concordance window . 38 Formatting terms in the Concordance window . 38 Validating extracted terms . 40 5 Exporting terms in SDL MultiTerm Extract .......................... 43 About exporting extracted terms . 44 Export definitions . 44 Before you begin . 44 Exporting terms . 45 Exporting using export definitions . 54 Exporting using an existing export definition . 55 Exporting using a new export definition . 57 Exporting suspect sentences in a QA project . 60 Using filters when exporting . 61 Creating a filter . 62 Editing a filter . 64 Removing a filter . 65 6 SDL MultiTerm Extract reference ................................ 67 Settings . 68 Preferences . 68 Project settings . 69 Add/Remove files tab . 69 Exclude tab . 70 To set exclude lists: . 71 Defining the learning settings . 71 Term Extraction tab . 72 Dictionary Compilation tab . 73 Translation tab . 74 File format settings . 74 Selecting a settings file . 75 QA Statistics . 76 Document quality . 77 vi MultiTerm Extract Tools User Guide Termbase quality . 78 Keyboard shortcuts . 78 7 Acknowledgments ........................................ 81 MultiTerm Extract Tools User Guide vii viii MultiTerm Extract Tools User Guide 1 Using statical terminology extraction 1 Using statical terminology extraction About statistical terminology extraction Welcome to the SDL MultiTerm Extract Tools Guide. This guide explains the method of statistical terminology extraction using MultiTerm Extract. This allows you to extract candidate terms to add to a new or existing termbase. It reduces the time and effort involved in generating a termbase by automating the process where terms are identified and entered into a central repository for review and approval. This is especially useful when creating a termbase from large volumes of documents or from new information that is constantly being updated. Statistical extraction using SDL MultiTerm Extract SDL MultiTerm Extract uses a statistical extraction method to determine the frequency of the appearance of candidate terms. It extracts term candidates and, for multilingual termbases, their probable transla- tions found in sentences, incomplete sentence fragments and strings of code. The extracted terms are presented as a term candidate word or phrase. After running the extraction process, MultiTerm Extract displays a term candidate list. Following review and validation, term candidates become term lists. In the MultiTerm Extract interface, you can quickly and easily validate terms. You can then use the multiple export options to incorporate extracted terms into your existing MultiTerm terminology management system. Terms can be exported to a MultiTerm termbase, MultiTerm XML format or a tab-delimited format. This allows, for example, translators to access those terms when using the Translator's Workbench termbases. MultiTerm Extract supports all languages, including those of the Far East. If you are using a non-Western languages, you must have support for the relevant language installed on your computer. 2 MultiTerm Extract Tools User Guide 2 About SDL MultiTerm Extract 2 About SDL MultiTerm Extract Statistical extraction features in SDL MultiTerm Extract SDL MultiTerm Extract uses statistical extraction to extract term candidates and, for multilingual termbases, their probable translations and present them in a term candidate list. You can extract terms from monolingual or bilingual documents and from translation memories and then quickly and easily validate the terms. The various export options enable you to incorporate extracted terms into existing MultiTerm Extract termbases or to export terms to MultiTerm XML format or to tab-delimited format. You can also check for terminology consistency between the termbase and a translated file. MultiTerm Extract allows you to do the following: • Create term candidate lists from monolingual documents. • Create bilingual term candidate lists from bilingual file formats. • Update existing multilingual termbases by creating new translations for terms already stored in MultiTerm. • Analyze the quality of termbases and documents by comparing the terms found in documents with those stored in the termbase. • Compile bilingual dictionaries from bilingual file formats. • Manually extract terms from the source document(s) to complement and enhance the automatic term extraction process. • Export extracted terms to MultiTerm, MultiTerm XML or a tab-delimited format. Supported languages SDL MultiTerm.