WIPO Pearl: Enhanced Database & New “Collection” Feature
January 31, 2025
The WIPO Pearl database has been updated and now contains 265,000 terms, all validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, over 29,000 concepts (or 88%) 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 feature: Search for a Collection
This release includes a new feature allowing users to search for a “collection”. WIPO Pearl includes several collections of multilingual terminology records on specific themes that typically span more than one subject field. It is now possible in Linguistic Search to retrieve all the terms in a collection and browse them as a set. Simply select a collection under “Search options”, click “Apply”, then launch your search. The available collections are: Covid-19; Chatbots; New Olympic Sports; Space Robotics; Telehealth; Virtual Reality.
Collaboration with the Government of Canada
This release also includes 100 multilingual terminology records (720 terms) resulting from a collaboration between WIPO and the Terminology Standardization Division, Translation Bureau, Government of Canada, which identified key terminology in the field of space robotics. Find out more.
Collaboration with universities
Finally, this release includes more than 700 new multilingual terminology records and over 1,700 terms provided by students at the following universities, following our validation:
- University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria, Austria
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
- Xi’an International Studies University, China
- Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea
- Astrakhan State University, Russian Federation
- Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation
- Moscow State Linguistic University, Russian Federation
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
We invite universities who are interested in a terminology collaboration of this kind to contact us.