This paper describes an approach to develop a computer-aided translation (CAT) platform dedicated to the derivation of translation examples in an attempt to maximise past translation reuse as well as terminology and style consistency in the translation of specific types of text. Such tools have come in the bibliography under the term Translation Memory (TM) tools. We first briefly outline the setting in which the development effort was undertaken, and then we give a description of the architecture of the platform. Current applications building on the technology underlying CAT and translation example derivation are also briefly discussed in the context of multilingual information retrieval.