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What is the Context Database?

The Context Database is your centralized data hub for all of your multilingual business context. It brings together Translation Memories (TM), Termbases (TB), Style Guides, Reference Materials, Jobs, Projects, and Segments into a single, highly searchable ecosystem. Rather than treating these assets as disconnected files, the Context Database cross-references them in real-time. This creates a smart engine that works seamlessly in the background to ensure your translations are accurate, consistent, and perfectly aligned with your brand’s voice.

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How It Powers Your LILT Experience

The Context Database isn’t just a storage system; it actively powers the tools you use every day:
  • Smarter AI Translations: When LILT AI generates a translation, it instantly pulls relevant data from the Context Database to ensure the output matches your historical preferences and terminology.
  • LILT Agent Assistance: The database supplies the LILT Agent with the exact context it needs to assist you with tasks, answer questions, and provide recommendations.

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Unified Search & Filtering

Looking for a specific phrase from a project you completed last year? The Context Database features a powerful natural language search page built for fast, intuitive discovery. What you can search by:
  • File names, job/project names, or specific segment IDs
  • Specific terms, phrases, or full sentences
  • Subject matter or business use case
  • Job-level metadata and custom properties
How you can narrow results: Faceted sidebar filters allow you to quickly refine results by data type (e.g., only search within Style Guides or Termbases), content format, language pair, domain, and date range.

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What Data is Searchable?

The Context Database indexes a wide variety of your multilingual business data so you can easily find it later. Each item includes rich metadata to give you a complete picture: 

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How to Use the Context Database

To get started, navigate to Context Database from the main navigation menu in LILT. From there, you can:
  1. Search across everything: Enter any search term, segment ID, document name, or business topic into the universal search bar.
  2. Filter your results: Use the sidebar controls to narrow your view by asset type, language pair, domain, or date range.
  3. Explore connected details: Click on any search result to open the Segment Context sidebar to review related terms, author information, approval status, project notes, and linked resources.
  4. Take action on your data: Select individual entries or group multiple results together to kick off a workflow. Use the action menu to send context directly to the LILT Agent, launch a new translation job, or organize assets with custom labels.
  5. Add and manage your assets: Upload new resources directly to the database in standard translation formats (such as TMX, TBX, CSV, or Excel). Assign language pairs, domains, or tags, and track version history to view or restore earlier versions.
  6. Enjoy automatic context in your translations: Once your assets are stored, no extra steps are required. LILT automatically feeds this context to both the Contextual AI and the LILT Agent during translation tasks.
Note on Access: Search results automatically respect your team’s role and domain permissions, so you will only ever see and manage content you are authorized to access.

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Intelligent Cross-Referencing & QA

Because all your assets live in one connected ecosystem, the Context Database can do the heavy lifting to keep your content consistent:
  • Smart Terminology Updates: If a historical Translation Memory (TM) match contains an outdated term, the system automatically cross-references it against your current Termbase to ensure the newest terminology is applied.
  • Continuous AI Learning: Human linguist confirmations update your entire data ecosystem simultaneously, helping LILT’s Contextual AI understand the relationships between your glossaries, TMs, and style guidelines.
  • Connected Context: Rich details (like authorship, approval status, and project notes) tie your style guidelines to specific glossary terms and are surfaced automatically in the Segment Context sidebar while translating.
  • Automated QA: Built-in quality assurance rules constantly scan the relationships between your data sets, automatically flagging contradictions (e.g., if a drafted translation conflicts with an approved glossary term).

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Context Hierarchy: Which Rules Apply?

To ensure the right terminology is used at the right time, the Context Database organizes information into a hierarchy. When giving instructions to the AI or LILT Agent, context is prioritized in this order:
  1. Organization: High-level instructions that apply to your entire company.
  2. Domain: Style guides and instructions specific to a certain department, subject, or brand.
  3. User: Your personal project instructions, preferred terms, past jobs, and language settings.

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Security & Permissions

Your data remains secure. All search results and database views strictly respect role-based and domain-based access controls, meaning users will only ever see the data and assets they are authorized to view.