Your control panel

The task board

Terminology managers use the task board to control termbase workflows. It comes with flexible functions to complete to-do lists as tasks, respond to term requests or upload imports and coordinate collaboration with other subject and language experts.

The task elements move across the view from left to right in a neatly organised Kanban board, depending on their progress.

You can manage these elements in the task board

Term requests

Imports

Tasks

Term extraction

Term requests from the team

It takes just a few steps for anyone to submit requests in Lexeri – whether for specific term suggestions in an ongoing editing project or freehand requests about a subject area or product. They are sent directly to the terminology manager’s task board, where they are processed and turned into tasks.
This gives you a clear overview of terminology requirements in the team and enables direct action.

Completing and managing personal to-do lists

Create new entries, upload imports, add languages or attributes – terminology managers use Lexeri to create to-do lists in the form of tasks and are then free to work on draft terminology in their own time – or obtain support from subject and language experts in the team and compile a custom workflow.

Importing terminology

Convert your own wordings into Excel or CSV files, including all their relevant attributes, and import the information to Lexeri. A neat mapping view then allows you to assign all of the categories to attributes in Lexeri. Initially they are created as draft terms and can be published from there directly in the termbase or edited in the workflow.
Here, Lexeri can handle flexible Excel structures, which means that values for one column can be extracted from another column in the Excel file.

Extracting terms from documents

Corporate language is dynamic and evolves continuously with the addition of new products or documents. Lexeri’s term extraction feature helps you to locate new terms and include them in your termbase. To do so, you launch term extraction in your task board and upload the documents from which you wish to extract any potentially new term candidates. Lexeri's intelligent language models analyse the text and create a list of term candidates that you and your team can develop into term entries.

Learn more about term extraction

Team collaboration

You are not alone – create subtasks to coordinate teamwork

Terminology is no longer a matter for lone wolves.
The individual departments and linguistic experts in your organisation often possess the necessary knowledge.
Invite your employees to collaborate on tasks in easily configurable substeps.

You can display an individual workflow as a sequence of subtasks for each object on the task board, so a task, term request, term extraction or import. You then assign these subtasks to your team members, can track their progress and discuss the work directly with them.

Once you have found a workflow that suits your needs, you can save the subtasks as a template to ease your workload going forward.

See for yourself

Team collaboration

Create subtasks and control your team

1. Select the subtask

There is no textbook approach for managing terminology. You can define the stages of work to suit your requirements and invite collaboration from specific users.

2. Define the details

Select the attributes for which terminology needs to be added and researched and then flesh out the subtask with a deadline and briefing.

3. Assign terminologists

Add team members with the necessary expertise and language skills to work on individual subtasks. The persons you assign receive the tasks in their own terminology board and can complete their work in draft mode.

Work smarter

Save workflows as templates

Terminology tasks are multifaceted – sometimes you only need to add a new language or check definitions – but occasionally you will have to do both. Assign subtasks to experts and then create a template for your established sequences of Lexeri subtasks for simple reuse with a single click. This is an organic way to streamline your processes, while leaving sufficient scope for necessary variance.

Roles

The roles in Lexeri

Lexeri is used to create and maintain terminology with your team members. There are various roles in Lexeri to keep everything nicely coordinated.

Users

Research, use and suggest terminology

Terminologists

Contribute language and technical expertise and work on term tasks

Terminology managers

Edit terminology and control workflows

Administrators

Make technical database settings

Task quality

Here’s how Lexeri helps you to correct mistakes and to keep your termbase complete:

Quality dashboard to fix the most serious flaws and gaps in your termbase and tasks.
Duplicate alert for existing term entries, as soon as new tasks are created
Term checks in the definitions – to maintain quality in your terminology metadata

Learn more about the quality dashboard