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Studio-ti
Italy
Local time: 03:53
English
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Hi everybody,
the problem is the following:
I have two Trados TMs, one is IT-EN and the other is EN-DE.
Now I am asked to create an IT-DE TM, but I cannot figure how I could produce it.
I feel confident there is a solution... has any of you some advice to give me?
Thank you all in advance,
Anna
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SDL Support 
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:53
English
| | Interesting question | Oct 14, 2010 |
Hi Anna,
I'm wondering if this is a question of how to simply create a new TM? In which case you need to tell us which software you are using and then we can tell you how to do it.
Or, whether you have exactly the same material in three languages but only matching Translation Memories for two of the available pairs, so that now you want the remaining IT-DE?
Perhaps you can elaborate and then I'm sure you will find some help.
Regards
Paul
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Studio-ti
Italy
Local time: 03:53
English
TOPIC STARTER | | Second option you said! | Oct 14, 2010 |
Hi Paul,
it's exactly the second option you said.
I am talking about Trados 8.
I have some manuals, which were first translated IT-EN and then EN-DE, with two matching bilingual (IT-EN and EN-DE) translation memories, of course.
Now I am asked to directly translate IT-DE, by-passing English which is not required any more, so I would like to recover the translated material I already have, but I don't know how.
The English material in the two TMs is identical.
There must be a way...
Thanks for your help!
Anna
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SDL Support
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:53
English
| | Here's what you do.. | Oct 15, 2010 |
Hi Anna,
First of all I think we need to be clear that you must be certain of your material, because if it isn't really the same then this may not be as successful as you might like and you might end up having a lot of editing afterwards. Certainly you need to do some good QA on the finished result.
So, here's the process.
1. Export your IT-EN to a TXT in Workbench
2. Export your EN-DE to a TXT in Workbench
3. Create a new multilingual TM in Workbench with EN as the source
4. Import the IT-EN and the EN-DE to this new multilingual TM one at a time
5. Export the EN-IT-DE multilingual TM to a TXT in Workbench
6. Create a new bilingual TM that is IT-DE
7. Import your EN-IT-DE into the new TM and only the IT-DE segments will be imported
Now, based on you probably being familiar with Workbench the only thing I'll explain is how to create the Multilingual TM as you may not have known this (I didn't until Daniel Brockmann showed me this morning..!). So, this is what you do;
1. Open the Create Translation Memory dialogue
2. Select your source language (EN)
3. Select the first target language (DE), and then hold down the ctrl key and select the other target language (IT) Both languages should now be selected in the Target language dropdown
4. Then click on Create and you will have a multilingual TM.
5. If you click on Settings - Target Language you will see that you can now choose which language you wish to work with
6. When you open the exported TXT in a text editor you will see three segments for each Translation Unit.
That's it, good luck.
Regards
Paul
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Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
Thailand
Local time: 08:53
 Partial member (2004)
English to Thai
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| | Tab delimited file | Oct 15, 2010 |
TM can be exported as tab delimited file. In this situation, export only IT field in your IT-EN TM, and only DE field in your EN-DE TM. From the 2 exported files, copy and paste into 2 columns of an Excel file. Save as a tab delimited file again (IT-DE pair format).
Soonthon Lupkitaro
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SDL Support
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:53
English
| | How did you do this? | Oct 15, 2010 |
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
TM can be exported as tab delimited file. In this situation, export only IT field in your IT-EN TM, and only DE field in your EN-DE TM. From the 2 exported files, copy and paste into 2 columns of an Excel file. Save as a tab delimited file again (IT-DE pair format).
Soonthon Lupkitaro |
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Hi Soonthon,
I'm interested in your approach. Can you elaborate a little on how you did this? It isn't possible to export as a tab delimited file so I imagine you have some intermediate steps.
Can you share this approach... I'm a little slow and couldn't see how to manage it without lots of data manipulation?
Thank you
Paul
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Antonín Otáhal
Czech Republic
Local time: 03:53
 Member (2005)
English to Czech
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FarkasAndras
Hungary
Local time: 03:53
English to Hungarian
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| | Other methods | Oct 15, 2010 |
Just wondering, does it decode character references? TMX has <, > and a few others.
Other solutions for TMX -> tab delimited include Xbench and a perl script I wrote.
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Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
Thailand
Local time: 08:53
Partial member (2004)
English to Thai
+ ...
| | In SDL Trados 2007 | Oct 17, 2010 |
SDL Support wrote:
I'm interested in your approach. Can you elaborate a little on how you did this? It isn't possible to export as a tab delimited file so I imagine you have some intermediate steps.
Can you share this approach... I'm a little slow and couldn't see how to manage it without lots of data manipulation?
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I am sorry to omit some steps about this method. In SDL Trados 2007: SDL Maintain and WorkBench can export to delimited file format (even for only 1 column). In SDL Trados 2009, export is provided in TMX format, and can be converted into delimited file format with a special Excel macro or other utility program (rather complicate). In brief, if you understand the TM data structure, you can convert into a number of format/language pair and sequence.
Soonthon Lupkitaro
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