Creating TM from previous translations Thread poster: Natalya Sogolovsky
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Hi, I'm a new learner/user of Trados but I've been translating for many years and have a lot of previous translations that could be used for creating TM (and, probably, used for Auto Suggest?).
Is there a way to use these translations or I'll have to "start a new life" now ?
Thanks in advance for any answer/clue.
| | | | | Alignment robots... WinAlign... | Sep 9, 2010 |
NataSogo wrote: Hi, I'm a new learner/user of Trados but I've been translating for many years and have a lot of previous translations that could be used for creating TM (and, probably, used for Auto Suggest?). Is there a way to use these translations or I'll have to "start a new life" now ?
Probably the most sound solution is to use an automated tool like AlignFactory Light from Terminotix.
Not very expensive, very rapid and damn good.
If you have more time, every CAT tool provides a module for alignment.
In Trados, you have WinAlign.
Cheers
GG
| | | | Natalya Sogolovsky 
Israel
Local time: 06:53
Member (2010)
Hebrew to Russian
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TOPIC STARTER | Do I have to buy | Sep 9, 2010 |
both or is WinAlign part of Trados and then maybe I have it already?
Where do I have to look for it in the program I have?
| | | | | Windows Start menu... alignment robots revisited... | Sep 9, 2010 |
NataSogo wrote:
both or is WinAlign part of Trados and then maybe I have it already?
Yes, you purchased it.
Where do I have to look for it in the program I have?
All programs > SDL International > SDL Trados 2007 > Trados > WinAlign
If you have installed it
SDLT 2007 is provided with SDLT 2009 but it seems the SDL marketing does it's job so well that some customers are not aware the SDLT 2009 package doesn't contain some basic modules...
Nonetheless, if you have really big amounts of parallel texts, I think it's better to invest in an alignment robot.
I never had enough time to make alignments manually, except few reference texts provided by customers.
So, a solution like AlignFactory from http://www.terminotix.com makes sense if you have too much work.
You can test it online at http://www.youalign.com
I didn't test it with Japanese, so you should take a look before you pay.
Cheers
GG
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Michael Beijer
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Hello NataSogo,
WinAlign is part of Trados 2007, and on my computer it is here:
C:\Program Files\SDL International\T2007\TT\WinAlign.exe
Message me if you have any other questions about how to use it.
Michael
| | | | Natalya Sogolovsky
Israel
Local time: 06:53
Member (2010)
Hebrew to Russian
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TOPIC STARTER
Grzegorz and Michael,
thanks a lot for your help!
Will try to find and use the programs and will turn to you with questions
Natalya Sogolovsky
| | | | | No need to buy, really | Sep 9, 2010 |
Grzegorz Gryc wrote: NataSogo wrote:
both or is WinAlign part of Trados and then maybe I have it already? Yes, you purchased it. Where do I have to look for it in the program I have? All programs > SDL International > SDL Trados 2007 > Trados > WinAlign If you have installed it SDLT 2007 is provided with SDLT 2009 but it seems the SDL marketing does it's job so well that some customers are not aware the SDLT 2009 package doesn't contain some basic modules... Nonetheless, if you have really big amounts of parallel texts, I think it's better to invest in an alignment robot. I never had enough time to make alignments manually, except few reference texts provided by customers. So, a solution like AlignFactory from http://www.terminotix.com makes sense if you have too much work. You can test it online at http://www.youalign.com I didn't test it with Japanese, so you should take a look before you pay. Cheers GG
Frankly, I'd advise against ever using Winalign at all. It's just so clumsy, slow and unintuitive that quite literally any other option is better, and there are lots of other options out there, some of them free.
I do agree that autoalignment is the way to go.
The smartest free alignment algorithm that I know of is Hunalign, which is why I wrote a frontend for it.
It should work with all UTF-8 characters.
Note: I'll soon publish a new, more user-friendly, platform-independent version with a couple of new features.
On Alignfactory: they proudly announce that they have the "best alignment engine available" and then fail to substantiate that claim with anything. To be honest, I'd be astonished if the Alignfactory algorithm was measurably smarter than Hunalign.
Here's how Hunalign works BTW: http://mokk.bme.hu/archive/varga05
The postediting UI and the import/segmentation filters may be good, but for raw power, Hunalign is probably hard to beat. It looks like this thing costs $420... I'd have a hard time justifying the price for a freelancer. I can see it can do things like batch alignments on all files in a specified folder etc. These and a good UI could be worth $420 for an agency, but for a freelancer... probably not.
[Edited at 2010-09-10 09:27 GMT]
| | | | | Preference of SDL Align | Sep 10, 2010 |
Michael J.W. Beijer wrote:
WinAlign is part of Trados 2007, and on my computer it is here:
C:\Program Files\SDL International\T2007\TT\WinAlign.exe
Message me if you have any other questions about how to use it.
Michael
WinAlign is a classice translation alignment tool of Trados but I prefer SDL Align in the package. Its interface is better to handle while WinAlign is tedious and prevent a convenient line by line view. It is also badly slower than SDL Align. [I never test alignment in Trados 2009, however].
Soonthon Lupkitaro
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| It's no alignement module in Studio... | Sep 10, 2010 |
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
WinAlign is a classice translation alignment tool of Trados but I prefer SDL Align in the package. Its interface is better to handle while WinAlign is tedious and prevent a convenient line by line view. It is also badly slower than SDL Align.
True, for some file formats it may be tremendously slow.
I never test alignment in Trados 2009, however.
Trados 2009 itself doesn't contain alignement module.
It's one of the reasons why Trados 2007 is included in the package.
Cheers
GG
| | | | | Hunalign vs AlignFactory | Sep 10, 2010 |
FarkasAndras wrote:
Frankly, I'd advise against ever using Winalign at all. It's just so clumsy, slow and unintuitive that quite literally any other option is better, and there are lots of other options out there, some of them free.
Well, I tried not to provoke flame wars but clumsy, slow and unintuitive that quite literally any other option is better is exactly my opinion about WinAlign
I do agree that autoalignment is the way to go. The smartest free alignment algorithm that I know of is Hunalign,
Theorically you're right but the Hunalign works only with unformatted (txt) files.
AlignFactory handles a lot of file formats (including PDF) without preprocessing.
It may make a difference for a translator in hurry.
On Alignfactory: they proudly announce
We know all what may mean "proudly announce", just see the PDF handling in Studio
that they have the "best alignment engine available" and then fail to substantiate that claim with anything. To be honest, I'd be astonished if the Alignfactory algorithm was measurably smarter than Hunalign. Here's how Hunalign works BTW: http://mokk.bme.hu/archive/varga05 The postediting UI and the import/segmentation filters may be good, but for raw power, Hunalign is probably hard to beat. It looks like this thing costs $420...
Canadian dollars.
I bought it on sales for 250 AFAIR.
I agree the normal price is somehow high.
I'd have a hard time justifying the price for a freelancer. I can see it can do things like batch alignments on all files in a specified folder etc.
Yes but the details depend of the version.
The Light edition has a limited number of files in the project.
These and a good UI could be worth $420 for an agency, but for a freelancer... probably not.
The problem is the rather the amount of text.
Cheers
GG
| | | | | amounts of text | Sep 10, 2010 |
Grzegorz Gryc wrote: I'd have a hard time justifying the price for a freelancer. I can see it can do things like batch alignments on all files in a specified folder etc. Yes but the details depend of the version. The Light edition has a limited number of files in the project. These and a good UI could be worth $420 for an agency, but for a freelancer... probably not. The problem is the rather the amount of text. Cheers GG
You mean if you have a lot of stuff to align then buying something like alignfactory makes more sense? It depends on what that stuff is. IMO tools like my aligner become pretty damn efficient once you learn how to use them, and they really excel with large files. Mine handles hundreds of thousands of segments in one go just fine.
BTW I built in some preprocessing and extra functionality so it handles web pages (it downoads and aligns them), html and other tagged files as well as txt. Converting a doc or a pdf is a bit of a pain but not too bad imo. Maybe I'll also bake in .docx support, it should be a 10 minute job. Doc is basically out of the question.
Maybe if you work with a lot of .pdf and .ppt files and so on, esp. if you have dozens or hundreds of them at a time, solutions like alignfactory start to make sense, which is why I said it's probably justified for agencies. So far I've never had to align 100 pdf files, although the need might arise. Docs are a bit easier: Plustools and other tools can do batch doc -> txt conversions. Then you can just merge the txts and align them together. Again, not ideal and more fiddly than something off the shelf, but not necessarily $420 or even $250 more fiddly:)
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