WIPO Pearl: Enhanced database
October 11, 2021
The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains over 215,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, nearly 24,000 concepts (or 87%) are linked to other concepts in the database, and these relationships can be browsed in our Concept Map Search. Further relationships can be shown in unvalidated “concept clouds” produced via a machine learning algorithm. Also new in this release is that machine translation proposals are now offered for the first time also in Arabic and Portuguese, if the WIPO Pearl database does not contain the term in those languages.
Collaboration with universities
This release also includes over 800 multilingual terminology records comprising 2,200 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation (universities marked * collaborated with us for the first time):
- University of Mons, Belgium*
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile*
- Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France*
- University of Heidelberg, Germany*
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea
- Astrakhan State University, Russian Federation
- Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation*
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom*
- Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, United States of America
We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.
Collaboration with subject field experts
This release features terms validated by subject field experts at:
Also included are 80 definitions of concepts in the Geosciences field that were specially drafted for WIPO Pearl by Natural Resources Wales, United Kingdom.
COVID-19 Glossary
WIPO Pearl was updated in 2020 with 147 key concepts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These key concepts are provided in the 10 languages of the database and comprise in total 1,500 terms. The aim is to help provide consistency and clarity across different languages regarding key terminology of the COVID-19 pandemic. These COVID-19 terms are also available in a separate glossary which contains links to the Full Record in WIPO Pearl for each concept, where definitions, multilingual equivalents, contexts, and concept maps can be found. The glossary is also linked to PATENTSCOPE, allowing any patents containing these terms to be easily located. Finally, this collection of COVID-19 terms is available for download from the glossary.