Terminologists' guide to importing terminologies (glossaries)
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The terminology implementation in XTM is described in detail here. Use this as a guide to determine your department's terminology requirements.
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Each task/step is included in the recommended sequential order to execute.
The procedures to complete the task as well as any optional steps, tips, and tricks are included in dropdowns just below each task.
The items labeled as optional are not required for project delivery but are placed in the order in which they need to be executed nonetheless.
MANDATORY - Wait for an activation email confirming that the project manager has created your user account with the terminologist role.
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Alternatively, contact the project manager for confirmation.
MANDATORY - Contact the project manager and ensure that they have added at least one customer to XTM.
OPTIONAL - Prepare a terminology file to use as a template for importing data.
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This is useful for formatting the terminology file that will eventually be imported into XTM, as the original terminology file may be coming from a different TMS vendor, and such will be formatted differently.
MANDATORY - Import the terminology file into XTM.
OPTIONAL - Have the administrator contact the TM expert so that the TM Expert can extract terminologies from the translations they are importing from other TMS vendors.
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Using a built-in, proprietary AI algorithm, XTM can look for the best term candidates in the source (monolingual) and/or target text (bilingual) in a TM file and extract them into a terminology file. The terminologist can then decide whether to approve these terms for use or not and import them into XTM Terminology.