Meeting translators’ needs: translation-oriented terminological management and applications

Terminography is facing new challenges in the 21st century and is turning into a more user-oriented discipline. Consequently, new and more appropriate applications are being developed to satisfy users’ needs. In this context, we encounter several translationoriented resources and applications which are of great use to translators. However, in our opinion, there is still a lack of concrete and useful tools for them as real users. In this paper, we discuss translators’ needs and expectations, considering them as a specific group of terminology users, and provide relevant details about their preferences to be taken into consideration when carrying out translation-oriented terminological management. In addition, we present a new tool Trandix, a translation-oriented resource which tries to fulfil translators’ requirements and which offers innovative features and functionalities, such as search in context or microstructure customisation, among others. Finally, we also offer a review of some other practical applications from the translator’s viewpoint and provide some concluding remarks about the current situation and possible future lines of research.