2. create and enforce corporate terminology

Corporate terminology is key to brand awareness. memoQ allows the management of multilingual corporate terminology and offers you tools to ensure the correct use of terminology.

  • During translation, all terms in memoQ’s term bases are highlighted. Translators can insert the right terms with a single click or keyboard shortcut.
  • memoQ’s built-in quality assurance module checks whether the translators have used the right terms or not. If not, it gives you a warning and you can ask your translators why they decided not to use it.
  • You can import Excel or Word-based tables and create memoQ term bases from their content. You can also export memoQ term bases into Excel and SDL Trados Multiterm XML formats.
  • You can flag deprecated terms as forbidden. You also get a warning about forbidden terms, thus memoQ ensures that no forbidden term remains in your up-to-date texts.
  • You can store additional information and images with terms, facilitating easier understanding of concepts.
  • Translators can suggest new terms on the fly by highlighting the source and target expressions. When using a central term base, term suggestions can be approved or rejected by users designated as terminologists.
  • Your translators can use local or remote term bases. Using remote term bases you can have all your translators work against the same central term base - the single source of corporate terminology. When they are not online, you can also allow them to work offline against a synchronized copy.
  • Using knowledge bases, your translators can discuss terminology with you and with others.

Terminology facilitates communication. memoQ facilitates the use and creation of terminology.

  • Creating corporate terminology is a by-product of translation. Both corporate communication and translations are improved as a result of translation. The costs of terminology creation and management are dramatically reduced.
  • Terminology is managed centrally and compliance with terminology is automatically checked.
  • If you decide to change the words you want to use - which is crucial for positioning the company -, you can implement this change painlessly.