a couple of new free terminology/TM tools from Logrus

[mcthulhu]

The latest issue of Jost Zetzsche's Tool Box Journal mentions two free tools produced by a Russian company called Logrus. Prospector is a Web-based term extraction tool for English which reportedly produces high-quality output, with little junk; it can process Word files and output Excel files with new terms, acronyms, and proper nouns. It can convert plurals and inflections to their base forms. "One distinguishing feature is that Prospector uses the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) as a 'reference corpus,' which improves term ranking. Maintained by Brigham Young University, COCA is the world's largest [freely available] corpus of the English language." http://logrusglobal.com/prospector.html
This seems to work only with English, unfortunately, so it may be less useful if English is not your target language. If it is, Prospector (and similar tools) might be a useful way to identify key vocabulary.

The other tool is Goldpan, a desktop TMX/TBX (translation memory and term base exchange file) editor. It lets you create or editor a TMX file with up to 8 languages, or a TBX file with two languages, and search and filter segments by various criteria, including regular expressions. So, this would be another option for keeping a local bilingual database as a reference, and doing concordance and terminology searches. http://logrusglobal.com/goldpan.html

The links do ask you to register but the tools are apparently free for now.