As you translate in the WebTrans interface, you can use multiple resources to help you with your translations.

Translation memories are databases of translated segments (sentences). If you are translating a segment and the webTranslate interface finds a similar segment that has been translated before, it automatically offers you a red match in the Translation results list. The difference between the current segment to translate and the segment stored in the translation memory is highlighted in the three compare boxes under the list. The percentage at the lower right corner gives you an indication on the degree of similarity.

LiveDocs corpora are similar to translation memories in their nature, but instead of storing standalone sentences, these resources keep translated documents together. For a translator, the experience is very similar, as these matches also appear as red matches in the Translation results list. LiveDocs corpora can also keep unaligned segments, which means that it can happen that the source of the translated segment does not correspond to the target of the translated segment. In the memoQ desktop interface you can correct these on the fly - in the WebTrans interface there is no way to correct these as of now.

Both translation memories and LiveDocs corpora show segments that roughly equal to sentences. However, there are times when you are looking for the translation of a word or expression. If the translation has been recorded so far, a blue Term base entry appears, which you insert easily. If it has not been added to the term base, but is hidden in the translation memories or LiveDocs corpora, you can use the Concordance feature. The concordance allows you to find a word or expression in the translation memories or LiveDocs corpora: it gives you all segments with their translations where the word or expression is part of the segment.

You may also get results displayed in the Translation results pane coming from light resources:

•Fragment search hits: purple. memoQ attempts to put together the translation of the source segment from its smaller parts that are found either in the translation memories or the term bases in the project. In fragment searching, memoQWeb searches the translation memories and the term bases in the project. When searching translation memories, memoQWeb uses exact translation memory matches only. It does not attempt to find approximate (fuzzy) matches for the fragments in the translation memories. When searching term bases, memoQWeb does not use prefix matching.

•Automated concordance / Longest Substring Concordance (LSC) hits: orange. memoQ attempts to retrieve the longest possible expressions that can be found by concordancing and tries to offer their equivalent too.

•Non-translation rules: gray. Non-translation are terms that do not have a translation like product names or company names like Kilgray.

•Auto-translation rules: green. Auto-translation rules are patterns that memoQ looks for in the source segment. Some linguistic elements have many combinations, and cannot be listed, but can be described using special rules. These elements include dates, measures, currency conversion, etc.

The order of the hits displayed in the Translation results pane is:

oTM and corpora

oTB

oNon-translatables

oAuto-translatables

oFragment search (fragment assembly)

oAutomated concordance (LSC)

Note: The assigned settings for these light resources from the online project are used to display results.

Note: You cannot add a new non-translatable from within memoQWebTrans.

You can change the order of the hits.

Using translation results and manage translation memory entries

As you translate, the web translation module assists you in the background by unifying the power of several translation resources, including translation memories, LiveDocs corpora, and term bases. Results of all queries are gathered and displayed in the Translation results list of the translation editor.

 
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When you move to another segment, the web translation module starts working on querying the different types of translation resources. The different types of resources are detailed in the resources section below.

Layout

The upper part of the Translation results list shows a list of translation results (hits) coming from all translation resources.

•In the left column of this list, you can see the source language entry of the given translation resource;

•the middle column shows the identifier number, and

•the right column contains the target language equivalent.
 

If the list contains numerous hits, you can move a highlight up and down in the list using the Ctrl+Up arrow and Ctrl+Down arrow keys. Use the ico_refresh icon to refresh the results.

If you want to hide the translation results pane, click the icon_hideTranslations icon to hide the pane. Click the icon_showTranslationsResultPane icon to show the translation results pane again.

The background color of each result indicates the resource it comes from:

•Translation memory or LiveDocs hits: red. memoQ compares the current source segment to those stored in the different translation memories or LiveDocs corpora added to the project. The comparison is numeric (and not linguistic), based on the similarity of letters and words. Therefore do not be surprised if some segments found similar by memoQ mean in fact quite different things.

There are three types of "red" (TM-like) matches:

omatches coming from a bilingual document in a LiveDocs corpus.

omatches coming from an alignment pair in a LiveDocs corpus.

omatches coming from a translation memory (TM).

 

Translation memory options:

oWhen you right-click a TM entry in the Lookup results section, you can delete a TM entry. The Confirm remove TM entry dialogs appears where you need to confirm that you are about to delete this TM entry. Click Delete to delete this TM entry.

oWhen you right-click a TM entry in the Lookup results section, you can edit a TM entry. The Edit TM entry dialog appears where you can edit the TM entry. The source segment is on the left, the target segment is on the right. In the editor, you have the following toolbar commands available: Undo (Ctrl + Z), Redo (Ctrl + Y), Bold (Ctrl + B), Italic (Ctrl + I), Underline (Ctrl + U), Superscript, Subscript, Copy next tag sequence (F9), Insert all format tags (Alt + F8).

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Note: The editor to edit your TM entries only supports left-to-right languages.

Note: The editor supports the Clipboard commands Cut (Ctrl+X), Copy (Ctrl+C), Paste (Ctrl+P). You can also use the TAB key on your keyboard to switch between source and target segment.

Note: You cannot insert new tags in the Edit TM entry dialog which are not already saved in this TM entry, but you can change the tag order.

Click Save to save your changes. Click Cancel to discard your changes and to close the dialog.

 

•Term base hits: blue. The software checks whether any word or sequence of words in the source segment is included in the term base as a term.

When you select a term base entry in the match list, the details of the entry appear below the hit list, in a formatted layout:

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Compare boxes

When you select a LiveDocs match or a translation memory match in the Translation results list, details will be displayed in the three text fields located below. These compare boxes show the original source segment, the source segment of the hit similar to the source segment, and the target segment of the hit. The following color codes are used to highlight differences between words in the source segment of the hit and in the original source segment:

•Black: identical parts in the source and the hit segment.

•Red: differences between the first and second compare boxes. It means that you need to carefully examine the differences highlighted, and adjust the translation stored in the memory to the source segment.

•Blue: an insertion is needed. If you see a word set in blue in the source segment box (the first compare box), it means that the entry coming from the TM does not include that word, and should be added in the translation.

 
Metadata box

Below the three panes, you will find metadata the current translation memory entry, LiveDocs entry or term. For the individual entries, you will see the following information:

•Sub, or subject

•Dom, or domain

•Pro, or project identifier

•Cli, or the client the translation memory was created for

•Doc, or the document the translation memory entry came from

•The name of the resource where the entry comes from.

•Keywords, or the keywords that are specific to this document in the LiveDocs corpus.

•The user name of the person who created or last modified the entry. If the entry was modified, the script labeled Corrected is marked in bold font.

•The date and time the entry was created or last modified. If the entry was modified, the Corrected label is written in bold.

•Match rate of the entry.

•Various indicators showing the changes memoQ made to the TM entry before offering it on the Translation results list.