Monday, October 19, 2015

Pearl: WIPO’s multilingual terminology portal


WIPO Pearl is WIPO’s multilingual terminology portal; it gives free access to scientific and technical terms derived from patent documents. It helps promote accurate and consistent use of terms across different languages, and makes it easier to search and share scientific and technical knowledge.

  • Developed by WIPO language experts and terminologists.
  • Currently contains some 16,000 concepts and over 105,000 terms and is constantly growing.
  • 10 languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
  • All the content has been validated and given a term reliability score.
  • If there is no equivalent in the target language in the database, WIPO’s machine translation engine may offer you a translation proposal.
  • Integrated with PATENTSCOPE so you can search the entire PATENTSCOPE corpus for terms and their equivalents in other languages. 

 An introductory video can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/reference/en/wipopearl#wipoModal1

It allows both a  Concept Map Search and Linguistic search

The former returns concept link from given words in 10 languages. FI for Car, in the automotive sector we get:




The latter, gives access to scientific and technical terms derived from patent documents.




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