This manual used the following terms to for the description of the user interface:
- Menu bar
- Drop-down menu
- Drop-down menu entry
- Toolbar
- Toolbar entry
- Icon
- ToolTip
- Workspace / Workspace mode
- Viewing mode
- Navigation tree
- Node (= Branch) - entry in a navigation tree, which can be further expanded, ex.
text corpus, text corpus object or a text.
Moreover the following terms are used:
- Database object: any element (item) of the database (text, word, object etc.)
- Text corpus object: an item of the database, referring to a physical object. Texts and text corpus objects are in child-parent relation, i.e. text is always attributed to the object.
- Child-parent relation: the relation of subordination between two items of the database.
- Lemma: the canonical form ( dictionary form) of a set of words.
- Token: the representation of lemma in the text (word form)
- Local and remote databases: local databases are running on user's PCs, remote databases are located on BTS central server in Berlin.
- WCN: word corpus number
