WIPO Pearl: Enhanced Database & Spotlight on New Olympic Sports for Paris 2024
July 23, 2024
The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains 260,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, nearly 29,000 concepts (or 89%) 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.
New Olympic sports
This release includes 75 multilingual terminology records comprising approx. 1,000 terms relating to the four new sports for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games to be held in Paris, France, namely breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing. All the terms are provided in the 10 languages of WIPO Pearl, while many of the French terms were provided, together with their definitions, by the General Delegation for the French Language and the Languages of France (DGLFLF)-Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language, Prime Minister, France. This special collection has been made available for free download on the WIPO Pearl website, where an .xml file is provided that allows the terms to be integrated into other applications, such as computer-assisted translation software.
New Olympic sports [XML]
Collaboration with universities
This release also includes 200 multilingual terminology records comprising over 600 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:
- National University of Córdoba, Argentina
- China University of Petroleum Beijing, China
- Xi’an International Studies University, China
- Universidad del Valle, Colombia
- Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- University of Heidelberg, Germany
We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.