Translation Glossaries

What is a translation glossary and how do I use it?

A translation glossary helps you increase the accuracy of machine translation outputs by allowing users to specify how a specific term or phrase should be translated. Each glossary consists of one or more entries with a term in the source language (source text) and its corresponding translation (target text).

Create Your Glossary

To create a glossary go to Settings > Translation Glossaries.

Click the “Add Glossary” button

Give your glossary a name, and select the source and target languages.

Next click on the “Add translation” button and fill in the Source and Target Text fields

Click “Save Glossary” to save the changes.

Import a Glossary

You can also upload a CSV file containing the terms in the glossary instead of adding terms one by one. Click the “Import Glossary” link and then “Choose File”. You can choose to replace the existing terms in the glossary or append the uploaded terms to the existing ones.

Once you have selected the file, select “Append” or “Replace this Glossary” and then click the “Import Glossary” button.

Click “Save Glossary” to save the changes.

Using the Glossary

Now that you have a glossary in place you are ready to use it when running machine translations. Create a new caption file and after you have selected the language you want to translate to you will be able to select the Translation Glossary you want to use in the corresponding drop-down.

Default Glossary

If you have more than one glossary per language you can choose which one to set as a default by clicking the “Set as Default” link on the glossary listing page.