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GoogleMT plugin settings

Set up Google machine translation to work with memoQ. You can also choose not to send specific texts to Google for translate.

The Google MT plugin will now use neural machine translation if it is available in your language combination. In some cases, neural machine translation can be much more fluent and human-like than statistical machine translation. To learn which language pairs are available for neural machine translation, visit this web page: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages, and scroll down to 'Language Support for the Neural Machine Translation Model'.

How to get here

For a local profile:

  1. At the top of the memoQ window, in the Quick Access toolbar, click the Options  icon. The Options window opens.
  2. On the Default resources pane, click the MT settings  icon. The MT settings pane appears.
  3. Select the MT profile you are using and under the list, click Edit.
  4. On the Services tab, find the plugin and click its row. If it is turned on, click its row to open the GoogleMT plugin settings window. If it is turned off, click its row once to turn it on, then click it again to open the settings.

For an online profile:

  1. At the top of the memoQ window, in the Quick Access toolbar, click the Resource console  icon. The Resource console window opens.
  2. In the Server URL list, choose or type the server's address. Click the Select  button.
  3. In the left-side pane, click the MT settings  icon. The MT settings pane appears.
  4. Select the MT profile you are using and under the list, click Edit.
  5. On the Services tab, find the plugin and click its row. If it is turned on, click its row to open the GoogleMT plugin settings window. If it is turned off, click its row once to turn it on, then click it again to open the settings.

Use

  1. Obtain your access. To learn how, see the memoQ Knowledge Base. At the end, you will have a Google API Key.
  2. Under Key for API v2.0, paste your API key.
  3. In the Referer box, enter localhost.
  4. Normally, when memoQ sends text to Google, the tags are not sent. The translation you get back from Google will not contain any tags. memoQ will insert all the tags at the end of the machine-translated text. Choose how to handle tags with the Formatting and lookup dropdown.
    • To use no formatting and no tags: Choose Use plain text only.
    • To use formatting but use no tags: Choose Use text and formatting.
    • To use both formatting and tags: Choose Use both formattings and tags.

    To leave the tags out altogether, clear the Insert required tags at the end of the translation check box.

Do not send sensitive text to Google: Type a regular expression in the Do not translate segments that match the following regex box. If a segment matches the regular expression – that is, there is a series of characters in the segment that matches the regular expression –, memoQ will not send that segment to the Google machine translation service. For example, if you do not want to send segments that contain dollar amounts, write USD [0-9]+ or $ [0-9]+ in this text box.

When you finish

To save the settings, and return to the Default resources tab of the Options window (or to the Resource console): Click OK, then click OK again.

To return to the Default resources tab of the Options window (or to the Resource console), but not save the new settings: Click Cancel, then click Cancel again.

To use the MT output in the translation editor:

  1. Open a project with a supported language pair.
  2. On the left side of the Project home or memoQ online project screen, click Settings.
  3. In the top bar, click the MT settings  icon.
  4. Choose the MT profile in the project, or one you want to add to the project. Below the list, click Edit.
  5. On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.
  6. On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, in the Translation results area, choose a setting other than Off.
  7. Open a document for editing, and see the machine-translated suggestions.

To use the MT output in pre-translation:

  1. Open a project with a supported language pair.
  2. On the left side of the Project home or memoQ online project screen, click Settings.
  3. In the top bar, click the MT settings  icon.
  4. Choose the MT profile in the project, or one you want to add to the project. Below the list, click Edit.
  5. On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.
  6. On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown.
  7. Run Pre-translate. In the Pre-translate and statistics window, check the Use machine translation if there's no TM match check box. (memoQ will remember this.)