Tilde MT plugin settings

Set up Tilde MT to work with memoQ. Use this plugin only if you have your own engine in the Tilde MT system.

Create and train your system or systems before you use the plugin from memoQ: Manage your systems on the Tilde MT website. You need to register with the site first.

How to get here

1.Open the Options window: At the very top of the memoQ window - in the Quick Access toolbar -, click the Options (cogwheels) icon. The Options window opens.

2.Under Category, click Machine translation. The Machine translation pane appears.

3.Under Installed machine translation plugins, find Tilde MT plugin. Next to its icon, click Options. The Login - Tilde MT plugin window opens.

If this is not the first time you click Options for Tilde MT: The Options - Tilde MT plugin window opens.

First time - before login

Later - after login

What can you do?

If this is not the first time: Read from Step 5.

1.Obtain your access: Click Get my Client ID.

2.The Tilde MT website opens. Register on the site if necessary.

3.After you log on to the Tilde MT website, the Client ID box will be filled in automatically.

4.Click OK.

5.The Options - Tilde MT plugin window opens.

6.memoQ lists the systems available to you. If there are too many, choose a language pair at the top.

7.Check the check box of the system you want to use.

8.Click OK.

Mind the confidence: Tilde MT assigns a confidence (self-assessed quality) level to each translation it returns. Normally, it will return all translations. You can tell memoQ to return only those translations where the confidence level is 0.6 or higher. To set this up, check the Do not show translation if QE score is below check box. Enter the minimum confidence level in the box next to it.

Assign a fuzzy score to machine translations: Click Advanced. In the Advanced options window, enter a score between 0% and 100%.

When you finish

To save the settings, and return to the Machine translation pane of the Options window: Click OK.

To return to the Machine translation pane of the Options window, but not save the new settings: Click Cancel.

To use the output of the tool in the translation editor:

1.In the Machine translation pane of Options, click Enable plugin (next to the Options button).

2.Open a project with a supported language pair.

3.Open a document for editing, and check machine-translated suggestions.

To use the output in pre-translation:

1.In the Machine translation pane of Options, click Enable plugin (next to the Options button).

2.Still in the row of this machine translation plugin, check the Preferred check box.

3.Open a project with a supported language pair.

4.Run Pre-translate. In the Pre-translate and statistics window, check the Use machine translation check box. (memoQ will remember this.)