The WIPO Pearl terminology database of scientific, technical and legal terminology spanning 10 languages has been updated and now contains over 280,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, over 31,000 unique concepts (or 90%) are linked to other concepts in the database, and the concept maps displayed in our Concept Map Search show how they relate to one another. You can use WIPO Pearl to help understand the meaning of scientific, technical and legal terms, to find accurate equivalents for terms in other languages, and for example to find with one click any patent in WIPO’s PATENTSCOPE database that contains one or more of the terms you’re interested in, in any language. An API is also available for WIPO Pearl.
Collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO)
This release also includes over 50 multilingual terminology records (840 terms) resulting from a collaboration between WIPO and WHO, which identified key terminology relating to the disease of dengue. You can retrieve all the terms in this collection and browse them as a set using our “Collection” feature in Linguistic Search. Simply select the “Dengue” collection under “Search options” in Linguistic Search, click “Apply”, and then launch your search.
Collaboration with universities
This database update includes more than 570 new multilingual terminology records and over 1,500 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina (National University of Córdoba, Argentina)
- UCLouvain (Belgique) (UCLouvain, Belgium)
- Université de Mons (Belgique) (University of Mons, Belgium)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
- 中国西安外国语大学 (Xi’an International Studies University, China)
- Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia (University of Antioquia, Colombia)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
- Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal, Deutschland (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
- Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Deutschland (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
- Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (Liban) (Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico)
- Universidad Intercontinental, México (Universidad Intercontinental, Mexico)
- Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP), Portugal (Porto Accounting and Business School, Portugal)
- Universidade do Minho, Portugal (University of Minho, Portugal)
- 중앙대학교(대한민국) (Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea)
- Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева, Российская Федерация (Astrakhan Tatishchev State University, Russian Federation)
- Государственный педагогический университет им. А.И.Герцена, Российская Федерация (Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation)
- Московский государственный лингвистический университет, Российская Федерация (Moscow State Linguistic University, Russian Federation)
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
- University of Newcastle, United Kingdom (University of Newcastle, United Kingdom)
We invite universities who are interested in a collaboration of this kind to contact us or explore the various options for terminology collaboration with us.