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Centralized Terminology Lists

Matt — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:42:35 -0700

It is quite common for medical customers to have multiple offices, branches, divisions, etc. around the US and around the world (surprise!). In addition, it is often commen to see product lines or specialties divided among these locations and business units. Therefore, it probably comes as no surprise that terminology lists could change without the knowledge of all groups and could introduce errors across products.

Perhaps one of the most effective ways to maintain consistency between localization team members is to maintain a centralized location for all term lists, which are available to all parties involved at any time. Whether the lists are maintained on a translation management system, an FTP, or on a wiki page, it leaves little room to doubt that everyone is on the same page when it comes to important medical terms. Talk to your localization service provider to see what they can do to help you!

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Allowing multiple 100% matches in TMs

Åsa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:39:41 -0700

For the most part, we discourage the use of multiple exact matches when setting up translation memories. This is to ensure the latest and greatest translation is always picked and to easily overwrite any incorrect entries. It reduces the time spent managing the TM, but also the time translators have to sort through and pick the right translation.

However, within very specialized industries such as medical, it sometimes does warrant the use of multiple exact matches to ensure only a limited and approved amount of possible translations are used.

To minimize TM maintenance, one workaround is to make use of either attributes or userids - anything that easily identifies the most recent, best translations in your TM, and easily ignore any older, non-approved items that might have snuck in. Then, you can do a simple export into .tmx, do a search on the specific userid or attribute which shows the approved translations, and replace the corresponding change date attribute to be today's date. Now, reimport the .tmx and any older entries will come secondary to these approved entries.

I would love to hear other do's and don'ts on how to work with multiple-exact match TMs!

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Helpful site for translating medical material

Nat — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:44:41 -0700

Here is a helpful site for the translation of medical material.
http://www.medilexicon.com/
You can search for acronyms/abbreviations, definition of medical terms and devices.
Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Re: The Advantages of Lexikon

Nathen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:11:26 -0700

I believe audit trails are one of the most essential features of a terminology management system. It vastly improves quality and consistency to know why terms were put in place or updated.

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Link to (multilingual) Medical Dictionaries in Print and Online

swisschris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:56:53 -0700

The following Web page lists over 100 medical dictionaries in print and online. Languages include: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Portuguese, etc.: http://www.interfold.com/translator/medbooks.htm

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The Advantages of Lexikon

dhdunn — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:26:17 -0600

One of the best ways to ensure terminology consistency in medical translations is to provide real-time access to glossary terminology for all constituents (clients, linguists, In-Country Reviewers). ENLASO's Lexikon system does just that, offering a web-based glossary management environment which also provides audit trails for glossary changes.

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