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Suggestions on debugging Translation Memory (filters?)
Thread poster: Pablo Mayen
Pablo Mayen
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Jun 11, 2013

Dear community,

Hopefully someone can shed some light on suggestions to debug my translation memory.

As of this moment my EN(US)-ES(MX) patent TM reaches 609,000 TUs. And the time has come to fine-tune the same. But nothing comes to my mind that would help me set up a special filter (or what criterion to use) to delete unnecessary units. I was thinking some titles/subtitles to start with and then some ambiguous terms but I'm afraid it will be kind of a titanic task. Per... See more
Dear community,

Hopefully someone can shed some light on suggestions to debug my translation memory.

As of this moment my EN(US)-ES(MX) patent TM reaches 609,000 TUs. And the time has come to fine-tune the same. But nothing comes to my mind that would help me set up a special filter (or what criterion to use) to delete unnecessary units. I was thinking some titles/subtitles to start with and then some ambiguous terms but I'm afraid it will be kind of a titanic task. Perhaps an age-related filter (i.e. the first TUs when I knew next to nothing of SDL Trados :S)?

I'm not sure where to start. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Regards

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Bernard Lieber
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Olifant Jun 11, 2013

Hi Pablo,

I think this issue has been discussed often enough, one of the easiest options is probably to export your TM as tmx and download Okapi Olifant, do your maintenance and reimport it into Studio.

HTH,

Bernard
 
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In my opinion... if you are using SDL Trados Studio... Jun 11, 2013

... then I would upgrade the TM into Studio first. This will provide some sensible clean up heuristics as part of the built in process and then you can QA the TM if you like. You could indeed take the suggestion from Bernhard and export to TMX after upgrading in Studio and then use Olifant.

But my preference (as I have had problems with Olifant in the past) would be to convert the SDLTM to XLIFF and then use the QA tools in Studio as part of a translation project to tidy it up. T... See more
... then I would upgrade the TM into Studio first. This will provide some sensible clean up heuristics as part of the built in process and then you can QA the TM if you like. You could indeed take the suggestion from Bernhard and export to TMX after upgrading in Studio and then use Olifant.

But my preference (as I have had problems with Olifant in the past) would be to convert the SDLTM to XLIFF and then use the QA tools in Studio as part of a translation project to tidy it up. There is an article on this process here that might be helpful : http://wp.me/p2xDjK-mq

Regards

Paul ▲ Collapse
 


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