The goal when searching for terminology and collecting it consists of the systematic domain-oriented compilation of terms from corpora. There are different ways of searching for terminology, for example:
- by using conventional resources (paper dictionaries, books, glossaries, etc.), or
- by using the Internet. The Internet is one of the most important and often used information resource for translators because they can have access to online dictionaries, glossaries, data bases, general information resources, etc., they can use search engines to find information and even store their results (bookmarking them)
There are also two different strategies for searching and collecting terminology:
- manual
- automatic: by means of using Terminology Extraction Tools (TETs)