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Bad Japanese term recognition in Multiterm (all versions)
Thread poster: CELC Inc
CELC Inc
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Jul 24, 2006

Multiterm is awful at recognizing Japanese terms. (I'm sure the problem is equally bad for Chinese, though my experience is so limited I wouldn't risk a definite statement.) In fact, the correlation feature of Workbench and TagEditor is just as bad, but I can live with that.

Here's my guess as to why: I am betting that the application is looking for spaces or punctuation to demarcate the terms.

One easy example I can give to back this up is what Trados does to phone n... See more
Multiterm is awful at recognizing Japanese terms. (I'm sure the problem is equally bad for Chinese, though my experience is so limited I wouldn't risk a definite statement.) In fact, the correlation feature of Workbench and TagEditor is just as bad, but I can live with that.

Here's my guess as to why: I am betting that the application is looking for spaces or punctuation to demarcate the terms.

One easy example I can give to back this up is what Trados does to phone numbers:
If the # is 019-621-8145, Trados sees three placeables: 019, -621, and -8145. Clearly this indicates that the dash is treated as a word break.

Here's the problem: no spaces in Japanese.

So, what can I do to aid recognition? Is there a setting I can use in MT or Workbench/TagEditor to change this? Should I suggest that SDL do something to improve this in future releases?

Any suggestions or help would be appreciated... ▲ Collapse
 


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