Poll: Do you use term extraction tools?

Philippe Etienne wrote:

I didn't try the MemoQ thing, but it's basically my opinion.

From what I've experienced from toying around with Multiterm Extract/PhraseFinder or whatever SDL used to call them, I gather they may be helpful on large projects with ample deadlines and direct contact with an end customer: you create a glossary with recurring words and expressions of major importance before starting translation and submit it to the end customer for review and approval.

Then you have a reliable glossary before actually starting the translation, which can be handy to avoid post-translation term changes and time-wasting.

But these tools often require a lot of manual checking/validating, so I'd say that below 100kwords, there is little point spending time on term extraction, and on-the-fly termbase-populating (how'sthat?) is usually the most time-effective and reliable method.

You can also use them to build glossaries from legacy material, like TMs or bilingual docs, where candidate target terms are also extracted and matched to source. With the same limitations.

To me it's mainly a tool for agencies or the proverbial "terminologists", but I understand that software companies want freelance translators to believe that it saves them time.