LocTerms is a glossary of specialized terminology about translation and localization in English and Spanish for the United States and Latin America. LocTerms is short for Localization Terminology. š
Terminologist
Alaina Brandt
Hey there, Iām Alaina Brandt. I am a subject matter expert in translation and localization from the United States. I currently reside in Mexico. My background in terminology includes work as a terminology manager. I taught a graduate level course on the practical application of terminology management within localization for six years, and I did two weeks of training in the Terminology Unit of the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2020.
My writing on the topic of terminology has been published in The Chronicle by the American Translators Association and used as the basis for the Terminology Guidelines by Translation Commons.
Linguistic Resources
T&L Knowledge Base
The Translation & Localization Knowledge Base, abbreviated as T&L Knowledge Base and T&L KB, collects content written by subject matter experts and published by institutions about translation and localization in English and Spanish for the United States and Latin America. The knowledge base page includes the guidelines we follow when collecting content and the database in which the content that has been collected is documented. The KB is used for terminology and definition extraction and validation and can be integrated with LLMs to improve the outputs of generative AI assistants.
Glossary
The LocTerms glossary is a bilingual glossary of specialized terminology that has been sifted from our corpus. The glossary has been designed according to the recommendations in ISO 30042. The Glossary page includes information on the structure of our glossary and status reports about our progress.
Technology
The LocTerms project makes use of these technologies.
- Airtable – The T&L KB App on Airtable is the centralized platform via which we collect, report on, and monitor the contents of the KB.
- Sketch Engine – A favorite tool for corpus analysis and terminology and definition extraction.
- Smartcat – Smartcat is a cloud based CAT tool with a glossary structure that is fully configurable.