London, UK and Washington DC, 27th USA October, 2011 – LTC, a global leader within the language services market, has today announced that it will be expanding its offering by providing a dedicated Terminology Management service – a process which concentrates an organisation’s key terms, brand literature and industry jargon into a single terminology repository, ensuring effective and consistent communication in multiple languages.

Terminology has proven to be a critical organisational asset within today’s globalised domain, as the efficient management of terminology results in uniform branding, reduced support calls and customer complaints, as well as shortened localisation turnaround time. Terminology that is deprived of effective management, however, is destined to cultivate into a ‘problem child’, as the inconsistencies will quickly snowball into a multitude of errors across multiple documents, products, services, or locales; leaving brand consistency dead in its track.

LTC’s terminology service is a simple yet effective solution which may include the following:

• Assessment of requirements
• Evaluation of existing terminology
• Selection of appropriate terminology tool
• Termbase hosting for web-based terminology solutions
• Preparing and importing existing terminology into termbase
• Term extraction using appropriate extraction tools
• Term Validation
• Termbase update and maintenance

An initial evaluation of your organisation’s existing terminology may begin procedures, once we have access to either your organisation’s glossary of terms, documentation or content. Our experienced terminologists and computational linguists will then extract and align key terms. Where necessary our experts will identify appropriate synonyms and translate terms into multiple languages manually.

Once the terminology has been approved by both a team of validators and key personnel from within your organisation, LTC will store your terminology within your existing or a recommended termbase which acts as a central database and can be accessed by all within the organisation, further increasing terminology consistency throughout.

Where LTC really does conjure up terminology magic is in the evolution of terminology. As time goes by, an organisation’s terminology arsenal will accelerate and alter, requiring frequent updating which can be very time consuming. However, LTC works to keep your terminology current either as a separate service or integrated into our broad multilingual service offering. When we receive new translation jobs from you, we also automatically update your termbase, ensuring that your terminology remains ready for use on a continuous basis.

About LTC

LTC is a leader in Collaborative Innovation (CI) delivering value and practical solutions from Europe’s transformational linguistic research to the enterprise. LTC provides cutting edge and validated language technology and services that accelerate time to market, create new global revenue opportunities, expand worldwide brands and drastically reduce operational costs. LTC offers seasoned expertise in all aspects of authoring, managing and delivering corporate content in multiple languages including workflow, and all aspects of multilingual technology.