Add concepts and terms

After you have created your first termbase, you need to create new concepts, add terms and their properties. Wordbee supports a concept-based approach to terminology management, which means that all the terms, their variants, synonyms and target-language equivalents designating a single concept are stored in a single terminological entry. Within the concept entry, there are three hierarchical sections: concept level, language level and term level. In this section, you will learn how to create a new concept using the standard TBX fields.

Create a new concept

Select your source language.
Click on New concept.
In the Value box, enter your concept.
Add additional information about the concept, for example, a definition.
Save entry.

Watch the short GIF video as an example.

Add term

Add a target language-equivalent to the concept you just created:

Go to the concept level > Languages and click on the + sign to Add another language.
At the term level, go to the new language.
Click on the pencil icon to edit the term.
Type the target-language equivalent in the Value box.
Add additional information about the term, for example, a definition.
Save entry.

You may add as many terms you want to one language but they all need to relate to the same concept. Learn more Database structure.

Add additional term information

You can add additional terminological information both at the concept and term level by clicking on the pencil icon. Here is an overview of the fields available by default.

Concept level

At the concept level, the following fields are available by default:

Concept nr
- Each concept is automatically assigned a unique ID when it is entered into the database.
Definition
- Here you can add a definition about the source concept that applies to the entire entry.
Explanation
- Here you can add information about the concept.
Subject field
- Here you can indicate the field of special knowledge to which the concept belongs to.
Labels
1. Click on the + sign to activate the drop-down and select the appropriate option::
  1. Usefulness: high quality, medium quality, low quality, do not use
  2. Creation date: you can select the year range
  3. Status: validated, invalidated, review required
Languages
- Click on the + sign to add a new language

Term level

At the term level, the following fields are available by default:

Value
- Enter your term.
Definition
- Here you can add a definition about the term.
Explanation
- Here you can add information about the term.
Process status
1. Click in the box to activate the drop-down and select the appropriate option:
  1. Unprocessed
  2. Provisionally processed
  3. Finalized
Labels:
1. Click on the + sign to activate the drop-down and select the appropriate option::
  1. Usefulness: high quality, medium quality, low quality, do not use
  2. Creation date: you can select the year range
  3. Status: validated, invalidated, review required

At each level, you can add additional fields by using the Add property button. Click on the + sign to activate the drop-down and select the desired field from the list. See How to add a synonym. These additional fields are taken from the Basic TBX specifications.

Change term status

You can change the status of each term you entered: None, Success, Error.

Examples

Learn more

How-to view and edit concept

Here is an example of a concept entry in three different views.

Figure 1: Read-only view with folded language entries.

Figure 2: Read-only view with unfolded language entries.

Figure 3: Concept with the first language entry in the editing mode.

How-to add a synonym

Let us assume that you would like to add a synonym to the Translation Memory concept shown in the screenshots above.

Go to Term level > English and click on Create new entry.
In the empty value box, enter your synonym, for example TM.
To indicate that the term you just added is a synonym, click on Add property+ to display the drop-down list of additional fields.
Select Term type.
Click in the Term type field box and select Synonym from the drop-down list.
Save entry.

Related pages

Create termbase

Add termbase to your project

View and edit termbase

Search termbase

Resource details

Termbase customization