Building a Custom Term Morphology Editor for Domain-Specific Text

Term Morphology Editor — Tools, Features, and Pricing

Overview

Term Morphology Editor (TME) is a desktop tool for preparing and enriching term bases so translation tools (memoQ, Phrase TMS, etc.) recognize inflected term forms. It targets project managers, terminologists and translators working with inflectional languages.

Key features

• Automatic morphology suggestions: Combines OpenAI, Hunspell (30+ languages) and Morpher.ru (Russian, Kazakh, Ukrainian) to propose inflected forms.
• Visual morphology editor: Manual, rule-based editing when suggestions are missing or need correction.
• Import/export formats: CSV/TSV, Excel; works with memoQ and Phrase TMS termbase exports.
• Reusable morphology database: Stores edited terms to auto-suggest when the same term appears later.
• Faster term recognition & QA: Improves term matching in CAT tools, speeds insertion of term translations and increases QA “missing term” detection.
• Batch processing and workflow integration: Process large term bases and re-import into TMS to improve fuzzy-match repair.
• Cross-language support: Broad language coverage via Hunspell and OpenAI; best support for languages with rich morphology (e.g., Slavic languages).
• Platform & UI: Windows desktop app with visual panes and high-DPI support (current versions mention UI/compatibility updates).

Strengths and limitations

• Strengths: Significant time savings for termbase preparation (vendor claims up to 90–95%), strong support for inflected languages, integrates multiple suggestion engines.
• Limitations: Desktop-only (Windows-focused), quality of automatic suggestions varies by language and may require manual correction; some suggestion engines have language limits (e.g., Morpher.ru).

Pricing

• One-time license around $75 (vendor listing).
• 15-day trial available (fully functional, no payment details required).
• Discounts and unlimited-time licenses noted on vendor site; check vendor for current offers and volume/enterprise pricing.

Where to get it / further reading

• Official product page: translatortools.net/products/tme — includes downloads, documentation, changelog (v2.0 notes: OpenAI suggestions, Phrase TMS compatibility, high DPI support).