Edit TM settings

Match thresholds section:

•Minimum match threshold: Use this spin box to enter the minimum percentage needed for a translation memory hit to be qualified as a match. No matches below this percentage will be indicated to the user.

•Good match threshold: Use this spin box to enter the percentage needed for a translation memory hit to be qualified as a good match.
 

Penalties section: When you receive a suggestion from the translation memories, memoQ will deduct the penalty values from the match rate of the suggestion. All values are in percents: when you get a suggestion that originally has a match rate of 100%, and the penalty is 3%, memoQ will report this as a 97% match.

•Alignment penalty: Use this spin box to enter the penalty used for segment pairs obtained through alignment.

Note: Because misalignment can remain in translation memories created using the automatic alignment, memoQ assumes that an automatically aligned segment pair is always a worse match than a proper hand-crafted one. memoQ automatically subtracts this percentage from the actual match percentage returned by the translation memory lookup engine.

Use the User penalties and TM penalties lists to define penalties for individual memoQ users or individual translation memories. Penalties are assigned to specific user names.

•Add: Click this button to add a penalty. The New user penalty or the New TM penalty dialog appears.

•Delete: Click this button to delete a selected penalty.
 

Adjustments section:

•Adjust fuzzy hits and inline tags check box: (When checked) If the differences between the document segment and the TM match are mainly numbers and inline tags, memoQ will adjust them. In the target cell, memoQ will insert a suggestion that has the text from the match, but the numbers and the inline tags from the document segment.

•Inline tag strictness for exact matches drop-down list: Specifies how much memoQ tolerates if the inline tags are different between the document segment and the TM match. You can choose between Strict, Medium and Permissive. Inline tag strictness indicates how similar the tags should be in the TM to the segment your are translating. Tag strictness affects scoring. Permissive means that all sequences of tags are considered equivalent, and yield an exact match. Medium means the tags must have the same type (open/close/empty), but attributes can be different. Strict means that you never get an exact match if tags are not precisely the same. Select Strict from the drop-down list when the tags in your TM hit need to be exact to the tags in the segment you are translating (assuming that the tags are the only difference) to get a 100% match.

To learn more about how tag strictness works, see this topic: Tag strictness and match rates

•Return an exact match if only recognized numbers are different check box: (When checked) If the only differences between the document segment and the TM match are recognized (and adjusted) numbers, memoQ will report an exact match. This means that memoQ will silently adjust the numbers and report 100% (if MatchPatch and/or fuzzy match adjustment is turned on otherwise).

The TM engine adjusts tags in the retrieved match. Unless the TM entry itself is such that there are extra tags in the target already, memoQ never gives you a TM hit with any inline tags that do not come from the current source segment. memoQ just takes the tags from the source segment in your document and puts those tags into the correct places in the TM hit's target segment. This happens regardless of tag strictness.
 
Important: There are cases when the tags in the TM entry's source and target segments do not match, so memoQ cannot "fix" the target with the lookup source segment's tags. These translation units only yield an exact match if the source segment is identical in the strictest possible sense. In other words, even with Permissive tag strictness, you never get an exact match that needs tags to be fixed manually. This enhances leverage, but without messing up translations.

You can use the TM settings to filter the matches coming from the translation memories in your project. There are two types of filters:

•Strict filters: If a match (that is, a translation unit from a translation memory) meets the conditions of a strict filter, it is discarded. This translation unit will not appear on the list of suggestions in the Translation results pane of the translation grid.

•Soft filters: If a match meets the conditions of a soft filter, memoQ applies a penalty for it. For example, if there is a 100% match that meets the conditions of a soft filter that specifies a 4% penalty, memoQ will show it as a 96% match.
 

You can use the Filters tab of the Edit TM Settings dialog to set up filters:

Use the Strict filters section to set up strict filters. If the custom fields of a translation unit meet the conditions of the strict filters, it is omitted from the list of suggestions in the Translation results pane of the translation grid. You can specify multiple strict filters. If a translation unit matches any of the strict filters, it is discarded.

•To add a strict filter, click Add in the Strict filters section. The Filter properties dialog appears, where you can edit the filter conditions.

•To modify a strict filter, select it in the list, and click Edit. The Filter properties dialog appears with the existing filter conditions.

•To remove a filter, select it in the list, and click Remove.

Use the Soft filters section to set up soft filters. If the custom fields of a translation unit meet the conditions of a soft filter, memoQ deducts a penalty value from the original match rate. If the translation unit matches more than one soft filters, memoQ can either add up the penalties, or apply the penalty for the first matching soft filter – this is your choice.

•To add a soft filter, click Add in the Soft filters section. The Filter properties dialog appears, where you can edit the filter conditions. You can also specify the penalty in the Filter properties dialog.

•To modify a soft filter, select it in the list, and click Edit. The Filter properties dialog appears with the existing filter conditions.

•To remove a soft filter, select it in the list, and click Remove.

•Click the Use first applicable penalty radio button if you do not want memoQ to add up the penalties of all matching soft filters. In this case, the (priority) order of soft filters is important. memoQ processes the soft filter from top to bottom. You can reorder the soft filters by moving each of them up and down in the list. Select a soft filter to move. Then click Move up to move it towards the top, or click Move down to move it towards the bottom.

•Click the Add up penalties radio button if you want memoQ to use the sum of penalties from all matching soft filters. In this case, the order of soft filters is not important.

Roles in TMs enable you to exclude the TM hits being generated by the translator, and relay on the master TM instead when doing your review of the documents.

In the Storing roles in the TM section, check the Store role ("modified in role") in TM entries check box. Then memoQ starts storing the user role with the TM entries. If you uncheck this check box, memoQ stops storing the user role together with the TM entry. This check box is not checked by default. Only when you check this check box, all other options of this dialogs are enabled, otherwise, they are grayed out.

In the Role-based penalties section, the three user roles are displayed in the TM name column: Translator, Reviewer1, Reviewer2. Each user role can have a penalty, it is 0% by default. You can change the penalty. Enter a penalty percentage for a user role in the Penalty column for the user role you wish to give a penalty.

In the Showing TM entries section, all check boxes are checked by default, i.e. that everybody can see everybody else's entries. You can manually exclude entries by other users in unchecking a check box.