The best way to translate glossary terms using existing TMs

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Hi team, 
 
 I have a task to translate a large glossary Excel file using existing Translation Memories. 
 The desired situation is to take the Excel glossary file, leaving just the source terms column, and provide 2 or 3 different existing translations from the TM that have the source term. In other words, if I have the phrase "100% pure avocado oil", I would like to have the TM provide the highest 2 or 3 TM matches with their translation so the linguist could the different use of the source phrase and choose the best translation. Another alternative situation is having the TM set to provide any match so we could see what are the highest possible TM matches that contain this source phrase. 
 The above options are solution suggestions, but if you have a better solution using SDL Trados Studio or/and SDL Multiterm to translate glossary terms using the existing TMs it would be great to share your ideas and solutions. 
 
 Thanks

Daniel Hug · Answer

Lera OHT 
 Trying to understand what you are trying to do. So you have TMs with translations for your glossary terms, and you want to arrive at a glossary - a MultiTerm termbase - that provides these different translations, say: 
 pure avocado oil 
 preferred: reines Avokado-&Ouml;l alternate: pures Avokado-&Ouml;l alternate: Avokado-Rein&ouml;l 
 (These translations don't make a lot of sense, just to have some example...) 
 I can't think of a way to automate this with Trados Studio. 
 The way to go about this in Trados would be to convert the Excel file to a MultiTerm termbase, so that you get matches in the term recognition window. Or you convert it to a TM and use it with the concordance, as outlined below. 
 As for the TMs you want to use, you'd add them to the project and use the concordance search. Mark the term you are looking for in the source column and press F3. 
 Daniel

Paul · Answer

Hi Lera OHT 
 Lera OHT said: The above options are solution suggestions, but if you have a better solution using SDL Trados Studio or/and SDL Multiterm to translate glossary terms using the existing TMs it would be great to share your ideas and solutions. 
 I think the solution you seem to have in mind is fine. You didn't ask how to do that so this is probably why you didn't get a response. 
 One question I do have is related to the number of languages in your file. If it's a multilingual spreadsheet then you would currently need to create multiple bilingual Excel projects, or use something like Excelling Studio from the appstore, or use Passolo. But in the next release of Trados Studio we do have a multilingual Excel filetype (via the RWS AppStore) which would support creating a single project for all of your languages. So a neat feature and huge timesaver as it also has the ability to handle embedded content properly and generate a single target file than contains all the languages so you don't have to put them together manually.

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