Search
words, wildcards and special characters
Fine-tuning
your Search: Domains and Type of Search
“Search” screen
Searching the IATE database
You can search for terminology in the IATE database by specifying your search term (i.e. the word or words that you are looking for), the source language (i.e. the language of the searched term) and a target language.
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Enter your search term(s) in this field. |
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Select one source language here |
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No specific language selected |
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Select one or several target languages here |
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“Any Language” selection for target languages |
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Click here to deselect all target languages |
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Load the languages combinations pre-defined via the “My
search preferences” screen |
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The links “My search preferences” and “Remove my search
preferences” allow for the creation and management of preferences for source
and target languages |
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Click the “Search” button or the “Enter” key to launch the
query. |
Search words, wildcards and special characters
- If you specify several search terms, IATE will retrieve entries that contain all terms, whether they occur in the given order or not.
E.g.
looking for European Commission will
retrieve…
European Commission
European Travel
Commission
Commission of the European
Communities
· Putting your search term between quotes - “ - will allow you to find it in the way you specified it.
E.g.
looking for “European Commission”
will retrieve…
European Commission
European Commission on Agriculture
· You can use the wildcard characters “*” (asterisk) and “_” (underscore), e.g.
- The asterisk can be used to replace any number of characters in your search term. E.g. searching for “termino*” will find all IATE entries that contain words starting with “termino”
- The underscore can be used to replace exactly one character.
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Search is not case-sensitive; commission
will find Commission and commission.
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It is not necessary to type vowels with diacritical marks ( ´
` ^ ¨ ˜ ) and special
characters (e.g.: ñ, ç). You can also use plain vowels and n, c
instead.
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μηλο finds μήλο |
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accion finds acción |
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universita finds università |
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ideeen finds ideeën |
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czesc finds część |
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ameijoa finds amêijoa |
Fine-tuning your Search: Domains and Type of Search
Domains
Searches in IATE may produce many results. Use subject codes to focus your search, e.g.: a search on the word 'net' will include terms such as 'safety net' or 'net interest', whereas the same search with the subject code 'AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES' would produce the word 'net' in a fisheries context.
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You can specify a domain to restrict your query. |
The IATE domain classification system is based on the Eurovoc thesaurus.
Type of Search
Terms in IATE are classified as “term” and “abbreviation”. You can use this distinction to focus your query. This is especially interesting if you are trying to find a translation for an abbreviation.
“Term” has to be considered broadly: it will include terms, group of terms, sentences and formulas.
Other Features
History of Queries
IATE keeps track of your queries and allows you to load any of your previous ones
Search Preferences
“My search preferences” calls the “User Settings” screen and allows you to customize the user’s main working languages.
Tick the desired languages in the corresponding boxes.
Then “Save” or “Clear” your selection.
Your selection will apear in the “Search” screen.
Selected source languages will come at the top of the list Source language.
Selected target languages will automatically be selected in the Search interface:
Help
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This on-line help |
« Search results » screen
Search Results
A successful search in IATE produces a hit list that contains the matching term in the requested language(s) and some additional information.
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You can use the “Search Screen” link to get back to the
initial screen. |
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If your search criteria (language, domain) do not change,
you can type a new search term in this field and launch another query. Please
note that this field is available above and below the hit list. |
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The hit list displays the matching term(s) and the terms in the target languages you have specified. The matching term is highlighted in the hit list. Note: in this example, the Spanish term carbono was
searched in German and French. The last item shows the term ‘C’ in MUL (for
multilingual). MUL is used when a term is common to all languages. |
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Besides the actual terms, the domain information, the name
of the institution or agency that created the entry and the IATE entry ID,
the hit list also contains icons that indicate the existence of additional
information ( |
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The hit list also contains a “reliability code” that is
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term reference,
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context,
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Clicking on 
will display all entry details.
Alternatively you can click on a language code or on a term to see more information.
« Entry details » screen
Detail view
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“Back to results” takes you to the hit list |
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“Previous” and “Next” entry allow you to navigate through
the matching entries on the current page of results without having to go
back to the hit list. |
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The interface displays the list of all languages contained
in the current entry. You can either display a specific language or all
languages. |
