Pre-translate and statistics

Use the Scope and lookup tab for this.

A scope tells memoQ which documents or parts to look at. You have the following options - choose one radio button:

• Project: memoQ pre-translates all segments in all documents of the current project. If the project has more target languages, it will be pre-translated for every target language.
• Active document: memoQ pre-translates all segments in the active document. The active document is the one you are looking at in the translation editor. You can choose this only if you are working on a document in the translation editor.
• Selected documents: memoQ pre-translates all segments in the selected documents. You can choose this only if you select several documents in Translations under Project home. It doesn't work when the translation editor is in the front.
• From cursor: memoQ pre-translates segments below the current position in the active document. The active document is the one you are looking at in the translation editor. You can choose this only if you are working on a document in the translation editor.
• Open documents: memoQ pre-translates all segments in every document that is open in a translation editor tab.
• Selection: memoQ pre-translates the selected segments in the active document. The active document is the one you are looking at in the translation editor. You can choose this only if you are working on a document in the translation editor.
• Work on views check box: Check this to make memoQ go through segments in the views in the current project. You can choose this only if there is at least one view in the project.

  To pre-translate for just one target language: Before opening the Pre-translate window, choose a language on the Translations pane. Then select all documents, and open Pre-translate.

Use the Scope and lookup tab for this.

You may tell memoQ not to insert a match if the match rate is not good enough. Choose one of these radio buttons:

• Exact TM or corpus match with context: Pre-translate a segment only if there is a context (101%) or a double-context (102%) match.
• Exact TM or corpus match: Pre-translate a segment only if there is an exact (100%) match or a context match.
• Good TM or corpus match: Pre-translate a segment only if there is a match above the "good match threshold". This is defined in the TM settings. To check this setting: In Project home, click Settings. Click the TM settings  icon, and edit the TM settings profile that is active in the project.
• Any TM or corpus match: Always pre-translate a segment if there is a match, no matter the match rate. In fact, it must still be above minimum match threshold (60% by default). To use this, you must turn off TM-driven segmentation (see below).

Only unambiguous matches: If you check this check box, memoQ will pre-translate a segment only if there is exactly one exact (100%), context (101%), or double-context (102%) match. If there are two or more, the segment will not be pre-translated. You must choose Exact TM or corpus match with context or Exact TM or corpus match from the radio buttons.

Tell memoQ which TMs, corpora, and MT services you need to use for each language:

1. Click the Select TMs and LiveDocs corpora link.

   The Select TMs and LiveDocs corpora for pre-translation window opens:

   

    

   memoQ uses the TMs and corpora which have their check boxes checked.

2. To check or clear the check boxes for each TM or corpus: Click the Select all or Deselect all links.

3. To save your changes and return to the Pre-translate and statistics window: Click the OK button.

4. To return to the Pre-translate and statistics window without saving: Click the Cancel button.

MT services: 

1. Click the Select MT and AIQE services link. The Select MT and AIQE services for pre-translation window opens.

2. If a language check box is cleared, memoQ won't machine translate for that language.

   If a language check box is checked, its dropdown shows the MT services set up in the project's MT settings resource.

3. To use multiple MT services, check the AIQE check box. memoQdisplays available AIQE provider.

4. To save your changes and return to the Pre-translate and statistics window: Click the OK button.

5. To return to the Pre-translate and statistics window without saving: Click the Cancel button.

When setting up pre-translation in a template, the window looks a little different:

When you set up a template, you do not know exactly which TMs, LiveDocs corpora or MT services will be used on projects created from it. But you can tell memoQ if it should use the Working TM, Master TM, Reference TMs, and LiveDocs corpora for pre-translation, or not. You can also tell memoQ to use machine translation or not. Check or clear these check boxes as needed.

To do this, click the Confirm/lock tab.

A document is 100% complete when all segments are confirmed as translated or reviewed, and only these confirmed segments count in progress information. memoQ can automatically confirm or lock pre-translated segments for you. If you don't want others to change the translation, you can also lock these rows.

To do this, click the Versioning tab.

memoQ can take snapshots of a document before and after pre-translation. This way you can check the changes, or return to the previous version if anything goes wrong.

Normally, memoQ doesn't take snapshots of the documents, neither before nor after pre-translation.

• Create minor version snapshot before pre-translation: Use this option to create a new minor version before pre-translation. We recommend adding a Note.
• Create minor version snapshot after pre-translation: Use this option to create a new minor version after pre-translation. We recommend adding a Note.

To do this, use the Statistics tab.

memoQ can combine pre-translation and statistics in one go. To make it work, check the Perform statisticscheck box. The analysis report will appear in Project home, on the Overview page (in local projects and checked-out copies of online projects), or in memoQ online project, on the Reports page (in online projects on a memoQ TMS).

For a detailed description, read the documentation about:

• creating an analysis report

• the Statistics window

If some target segments already have text, pre-translation overwrites them in some cases, and leaves them as they are in other cases:

• Empty (Not started) segments are always filled in if there is a match.
• Previously pre-translated segments are overwritten if memoQ has a better match than the one that was used earlier.
• memoQ will not change edited or confirmed segments. If you need to overwrite these segments, you need to clear them first using the Clear translations command.