Supporting Documentation: Termium PLUS, the Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic data bank

TERMIUM Plus®

On the page called TERMIUM Plus®, find the subject you are interested in under the heading "Data and Resources" and then click the Download button.
Once the zipped files are saved to the computer, simply open them. You will see a list of CSV files.
Extract the CSV files you are interested in to the drive of your choice.
For each file, you may have to convert the data so that you can read them. Here’s how to do so:
1. Launch a spreadsheet program (e.g. Microsoft Excel) and click Open.
2. Navigate to the folder that you extracted the CSV files to.
  1. If you do not see a choice of files, select the option “all files” beside the window called “File Name.”
3. Open the CSV file you want.
4. In the Text Import Wizard, choose the Delimited option and click Next.
5. In the second window, uncheck Tab delimiter and check Comma. Click on Next.
6. In the third window, make sure the chosen format is General and click Finish.
You’ll see the data clearly organized by columns. All that is left to do is to play with the column width to see all the data for each one.
Based on these data, you can create a variety of linguistic tools such as a spelling checker or a terminology data bank.