Use Case “Terminology Migration and Cleanup”

Challenge: A medium-sized mechanical engineering company wanted to switch to a Translation Management System (TMS) that was a better fit. Extensive language data was available in the form of multilingual translation memories and terminology tables in Excel, which needed to be imported into the new TMS. While doing so, it turned out that personalized fields from the Excel spreadsheet could not be transferred to the terminology entries of the new system.

Solution: Since the entry structures of the Excel spreadsheet could not be mapped to the target system with on-board equipment of the TMS, blc converted the initial data into a valid import format (e.g. TBX) to ensure a clean and automated import of all terminological information. In addition, during this migration, translation units were marked to show unwanted terminology in the translation memory, allowing targeted segment cleanup.

Use Case “Finding synonyms using vector space models”

Challenge: An automotive manufacturer needed to expand the database of an application for guided troubleshooting. The reason: Many users used a variety of names and abbreviations for specific components, error patterns, and error locations during troubleshooting and often received no results.

Solution: berns language consulting created a new, expanded database with as many variants as possible. Language data from databases, translation memories, after-sales literature, and other sources were extracted and processed. This data was used to create a vector space model of all the terms. With this data model, synonyms for existing term lists could be identified during troubleshooting, making this process highly efficient even for a wide variety of input variants.