Translation Glossary

Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory (ALTM)	Advanced Leveraging is a term coined by the Translation Association User Society (TAUS) to describe a new generation of Translation Memory (TM) tools that build on, and go beyond, the functionality of traditional TM tools.
Advanced Linguistics Pack	The Advanced Linguistics module seamlessly extends the same functionality users enjoy with MultiTrans Prism to users that have character based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean as their source documents
Advanced Terminology Server	The Advanced Terminology Server gives administrators fine-grained access and user rights management, which facilitates the terminology approval workflow and brings the authors, revisers, and even clients into the information loop.
Alignment Agent	The TextBase Alignment Agent function lets you easily build your translation memories, through an automated creation process with surprising accuracy.
Analysis Agent	The Analysis Agent provides comprehensive project analysis and reporting tools. Statistical reports on internal and legacy repetition allow organizations to intelligently estimate the time and effort required to perform a particular project.
Analysis Agent Web Services	Automatically compare your incoming projects to your existing multilingual assets within your TMS.
CAT Tools	Computer-aided translation, or CAT, is a form of translation wherein a human translator translates texts using computer software designed to support and facilitate the translation process.
CMS Integration Web Services	Extends the functional benefits of an organization's CMS to translation process by converting a Content Management System (CMS) to a Global Management System (GMS) via an Web Services interface
Fetch From Web	Fetch from Web opens up your Internet browser to instantly search corporate TextBase TMs or TermBases for the matching word, sub-segment, segment and/or paragraph and displays the source and target in context, without having to have MultiTrans installed.
FilterPACK	The MultiTrans Prism FilterPACK is an add on module which allows users to add over 250 file types to their server TextBases.
FIND	Find is an innovative search engine with the speed and power to scan half a million documents stored in MultiTrans Prism Flow in under a second. Find can handle 255 file formats including Word, in any language, even non-Latin characters such as Russian, Arabic, and simplified Chinese.
Flow	Web Based Translation Workflow and Billing Management. MultiTrans Prism Flow delivers a comprehensive workflow and globalization management solution that provides full control of translation requests and deliveries. It automates the entire end-to-end translation management processes, helps maximize efficiencies and improves translation quality & consistency.
Globalization Management Systems (GMS)	Globalization Management Systems (GMS) are enterprise software applications that provide the infrastructure to control the complex process of adapting, translating and maintaining all of a company's content and information (such as corporate documents, databases, enterprise applications, Web sites, manuals, and more). A GMS should meet the challenge of developing, leveraging, and maintaining a multilingual, multinational and multicultural base of enterprise information.
Interoperability	Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together. Specifically the ability of systems to exchange data seamlessly.
License Server	The License Server allows for the easy management of named or floating licenses directly from within the client environment without a need to connect to the MultiCorpora License Servers.
ListBuilder	The ListBuilder is a tool that assists you to automatically pair up your previously translated documents in preparation for creating or appending to a TextBase.
LSP	Language Service Provider. A company specialized in providing multilingual services to clients.
Machine Translation Web Services	The Machine Translation Connector is designed to integrate third-party Machine Translation systems such as Systran and Prompt into the MultiTrans Prism translation process.
OUTPack	OUTpack is a web-based solution that automates the translation process by connecting the translation project request with a translator. OUTpack prepares a translation package that contains everything a translator needs to translate a document in a cost-effective, high quality, and timely manner.
Placeables	Terms that do not get translated between source and target text, such as company or product names, or ones that have fixed or predictable translations, such as the names of countries or months. If a placeables TermBase has no translation for a given term, the source term will remain unchanged; if it does have a translation in the target language, then this translation will automatically appear. Placeables can be set not to affect the match levels since they can be replaced automatically. Segments with only differences in placeables will then not appear as fuzzy matches.
Pre-translation Automation & Machine Translation Web Services	Integrates into your TMS the ability to automatically replace full and fuzzy segment matches from the TextBase TM, replacing standardized terminology, and identifying sub-segments that have already been translated. For segments not matched in the TM, the Machine Translation Web Service will pull in translation from a MT service.
Saas	Software as a service (SaaS) is a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand.
SDK	MultiTrans Prism Web Services enable seamless multi-system integration with existing content management, workflow or other language processing applications. Through MultiTrans Prism Web Services, many functions can be triggered and managed automatically by existing document management and workflow software applications. These core functions include TextBase TM creation, TextBase maintenance, project analysis and other functions. Web Services are ideal for organizations that wish to automate some of the administrative functionalities.
Security Management Automation Web Services	The MultiTrans Prism Security Web Services allows an organization to provide access to its multilingual assets on an as-needed basis, and to revoke those permissions as well.
Tags	Tags store software commands, most often metadata or formatting commands. They appear as text within the "<" and ">" characters. When a tagged source file is imported into the XLIFF Editor, the tags are separated from the translatable content, leaving only the content exposed to the translator for the editing process. Work-in progress files are stored in industry-standard XLIFF format. When the translation is finished, the tags are reinserted into the target language file as it is exported back to the source file format, accurately recreating the original document structure.
Team Module	The Team Module enables sharing propagation memories on a server in real time. This means that translated segments can be made immediately available to everyone working on a project.
TermBase	The TermBase delivers a terminology database of your approved, standardized terms in multiple languages. Remote and local users can access the TermBase to ensure consistent language use for a broad range of projects. As with the TextBases, TermBases can further be segmented by verticals or by categories.
TermBase Web	The MultiTrans Prism TermBase Web opens up your sever TermBases to the web to facilitate external collaboration.
TextBase	The TextBase Translation Memory delivers instant access to a massive repository of reusable multilingual text segments. Users can view past translations in their original context from within the editor they are using to translate. TextBases can be segmented by verticals or by categories for a more controlled environment.
TextBase Auto-Alignment Scheduler	Simply set up the parameters and the Alignment Scheduler will automatically check a particular folder, apply a pre-defined document pairing scheme and add the paired documents to a specified TextBase on a scheduled timeline.
TextBase Builder Web Services	Reduce overhead by automating the creation and maintenance TextBase TMs.
TM+ALTM	MultiCorpora's description of TextBase TM features that combine all the features of conventional TM with advanced leveraging translation memory technology.
TMX	The "Translation Memory eXchange" file format, an industry standard for exchanging translation memory files. The XLIFF Editor supports TMX and TTX (SDL Trados legacy tagged format file) files out-of-the-box with a built-in mapping.
Translation Agent	This agent runs within various editing environments (i.e. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, etc) and allows local and remote users to interactively retrieve relevant translation references from any TextBase and/or TermBase.
Translation Extractor	TextBase Builder's robust Terminology Extractor feature generates a list of expressions of two (or more) consecutive words that occur more than once in your TextBase. You can view this "Expression List" when using the TextBase Search process (Terminology tab, Expression List sub-tab).
Translation Generator	The Translation Generator uses sophisticated algorithms to extract terminology from an organization's TextBases and identifies and retrieves the corresponding translations in multiple languages.
TranSys	TranSys maximizes efficiencies within your translation processes by bringing together two of the industry's most powerful tools, MultiTrans Prism and Systran, the most popular rule-based machine translation tool on the market.
Web Service	Software system designed to support interoperable interaction over a network, allowing system component to "talk" to each other over the web
WordAlign	WordAlign facilitates the alignment of text at the individual term and expression level.
XLIFF	An acronym for XML localization Interchange File Format. It is an XML-based format created to standardize localization. An XLIFF document is composed of one or more files. Each file consists of a source file and the corresponding translation for one language. Translatable content is stored in <trans-unit> elements. The <trans-unit> element holds a <source> element to store the source text, and a <target> element to store the translated text. The non-translatable content, such as document formatting information and metadata, is separated out as tags.
XLIFF Editor	The XLIFF Editor is a stand-alone application for editing tagged format files such as MS Office 2007 & 2010, HTML, XML, Adobe® InDesign®, and XLIFF files produced by other tools. By separating the translatable text from formatting commands (preserved as tagged information) and presenting it in a two column source/target format, the XLIFF Editor makes translating complex formats easy.
XML Files	Built into the XLIFF Editor is a simple yet sophisticated Mapping Editor that can be used to define and isolate translatable content from surrounding XML code. Use the Mapping Editor to identify elements or attributes that should be translated. Define internal, external, and ignore tags.