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Consistent and correct terminology is at the heart of a smooth translation process. You can either double-check every word you use manually, or use a terminology solution that does it for you and boosts your productivity.
Teams who translate for multiple departments need a customizable and collaborative terminology management system that gives them full control over their linguistic resources. When it comes to your terminology, it needs to be accessible, intuitive, and easy to search, whether you’re working within memoQ projects or beyond.
And consistency within your translation team isn’t always enough; in some cases, you need to share your terminology among your whole team, beyond translators and linguists, or even outside your organization.
Qterm
The ultimate terminology management system for storing, managing and sharing terminology.
What is Qterm?
Qterm is a browser-based terminology management system that helps organizations store, manage, and share terminology. It enhances communication, boosts brand consistency, and improves the quality of translations and technical content.
How does it work?
Qterm is used as a memoQ server extension. Term bases in Qterm are easily available for translators, project managers and reviewers working within the memoQ server environment.
Qterm is a browser-based application.
Functionality in Qterm
While terminology management in memoQ is rather simplistic (fixed entry structure), in Qterm it is flexible. To see a comparison table between features in memoQ’s in-built terminology module and Qterm, click here.
File Formats
In Qterm you can import and export the following file formats.
- MultiTerm XML: Qterm can import and export MultiTerm XML files.
- TBX: Qterm can import and export TBX (TermBase eXchange) files. TBX is the XML-based industry standard for exchanging structured terminology data.
- CSV/TXT: Qterm can import and export CSV or TXT files with either one line per entry or with multiple lines per entry (one line per term, connected through an entry ID column).
ISO Standards
Many professional terminologists use ISO 704 and ISO 10241 as the basis for their terminology management process. Their terminology work improves because of the use of international best practices. Qterm supports both standards by allowing terminologists to manage terminology easily and effectively and allowing other players such as translators to use this terminology directly from within memoQ.
Leveraging Qterm
Don’t have an in-house terminology expert? Our team can help you:
- Define your terminology structure
- Create and maintain your term base
- Set up filters and permissions
- Handle guest access (for departments or teams)
- Migrate existing data to Qterm
A single point of access for your terminology
Rather than treating it as a task only for translators, terminology should support branding, design, content creation, quality assurance, and both human and machine translation efforts.
Qterm offers a centralized, browser-based solution that gives internal teams and external partners access to up-to-date, approved terminology. It ensures that the organization controlling the terminology also controls how it is used across all languages.
With Qterm, translation providers can offer managed terminology services and allow expert reviewers to contribute—no extra software required.
Features of Qterm
- Customizable Term Bases: Tailor structures with fields for text, numbers, media, and picklists.
- Collaborative Discussions: Users can comment, ask questions, and request new terms with built-in notifications.
- Cross-Term Base Search: Search across all Qterm databases in one go.
- Smart Filters: Find terms based on approval status, missing languages, product relevance, and more.
- Multimedia Support: Add images, videos, and documents to term entries.
- memoQ Integration: Seamlessly works with memoQ desktop and WebTrans, with QA support and on-the-fly term saving.
- Guest Access & Permissions: Share term bases without login or assign user rights for lookups, edits, or admin tasks.
- User-Friendly Interface: Fast, responsive design with hotkeys and desktop-like editing experience.
Advanced features of Qterm
- Merge Duplicates: Combine redundant term entries.
- Search & Replace Metadata: Edit metadata across multiple terms or entire term bases.
- Entry & Search History: Track term changes and see which terms users search for most.
- Cross-Linking Terms: Link related terms (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms).
- Printing Options: Print full entries or simplified glossaries.
- Export with Language Filters: Choose which languages to include in CSV, TXT, or MultiTerm XML exports.
- Starred Entries: Bookmark key terms for quick access.
- Direct Entry URLs: Share terms via direct links.
- Preview Before Save: See how edited entries will look before finalizing.
- Clickable URLs: Free text field links open directly in a new tab.
- Quick Filter Testing: Instantly apply and test filters from the settings page.
Find the Right Terms in No Time
Constantly keeping track of terminology across your organization can be challenging. Scattered glossaries, outdated definitions, and time-consuming term lookups can delay projects and create confusion. termFinder is your web-based terminology portal, which keeps the right terms at your fingertips quickly and accurately. Designed for easy use within and outside an organization, termFinder is accessible on any device with an internet connection.
Why termFinder?
A Single Source of Truth
With termFinder, anyone in your organization can look up and display monolingual and multilingual terms, ensuring terminology remains consistent and clear. Users can also suggest new terms, while improving your glossary and helping share knowledge within your organization.
Flexible Access Customized to your Needs
Your terminology is on demand, right in your pocket. Users can access termFinder on any device with an internet connection or integrate it into your intranet site for convenient access. Tailor termFinder to your branding, logo, and colors to meet internal and external requirements.
Track, Learn, and Improve
Improve your terminology management with charts representing usage data. Track how termFinder is used across your organization, identify the most valuable terms, and see what is helpful for your users and what is not. Use these insights to refine your glossary and make data-driven decisions
lookup tool
As part of the memoQ TMS ecosystem, the lookup tool gives your team unparalleled access to translation memories and term bases (including Qterm). No more guessing where past translations live—search freely across all resources with ease.
When translating, you can sometimes come across sections that you’re sure you have translated before. But when you work with many projects, it can be hard to remember where and when you already worked with that specific section. Unless you know exactly which project to search in, it could take hours to find it.
Project-specific limitations slow you down, forcing you to redo work you’ve already completed. The lookup tool provides linguists with access to language resources going beyond their assigned memoQ projects, so no more guesswork is needed when it comes to past translations.
Wider, flexible access to all your resources
There are no limits to where you can search in past translations, but you control people’s access to specific resources.
Search beyond project-specific resources in memoQ TMS
Gain full visibility into all translation memories and term bases to make sure nothing is lost in translation.
Ensure consistency and accuracy
Check consistency or alignment with your organization’s requirements; locate past translations easily to make sure all resources are up –to –date.
Get better insights into your resources
Audit and approve your resources, and make approved translation resources available to more people across your company.