Pseudo-translation plugin settings

1. Under Name, you can choose a name for the configuration. To start a new configuration: At the top right, click New.

   You can "clone" a pseudo-translation configuration: After you create a new configuration, you can copy the settings from another one. At the bottom, click Copy settings from. The Copy settings from window opens. Click the name of another configuration, and click Copy settings.

   Cannot change the Built-in default configuration: memoQ 8.1 and higher ship with a pre-built default configuration. You cannot save changes to this, but you can clone the settings to new configurations.

2. Type a Description. It is important because others may want to use it, and they need to know what it is good for. Tell about the document type, for example.
3. Choose language pairs for the configuration. If there are no language pairs, memoQ will not use this configuration for pseudo-translation. To add a new language pair, click Add. The Select language pair window opens. Choose a language in the Source Language and in the Target Language drop-down box. Click Select.
4. The pseudo-translator can transform the text into another script or writing system. Make sure the script settings match the source and target languages. Under Transformation, choose a writing system in the Source script and the Target script drop-down box (if they are not Latin).

Once you set up the configuration, you can set up the rules for garbling text.

First, memoQ can replace characters and alter words.

It can split and join words at random, spell the words backwards, and even write the words in the reverse order. What's more, it can add characters to the beginning and to the end of the translated segments. You can turn these changes on and off under Replacement rules:

You can set up custom replacement rules as well. Just look right:

To turn this on, check the Replace check box under Custom replacement rules. Then memoQ will replace certain characters in the text.

You can make the pseudo-translation look more similar to the hypothetical target language. Type the original characters in the Replace these box. Type the replacement characters in the With these box. Type the same number of characters in both boxes. memoQ replaces the first character in Replace these with the first character in With these, and so on.

If your target language is English, or any other language that does not use accented characters, it is not realistic to allow accented characters in the pseudo-translated output. To turn off accented characters in the output, check the Avoid accented characters in target check box.

Finally, memoQ can change the length of the text. To configure it, click the Expand/shrink tab:

Depending on the length of the source words, you can ask memoQ to add characters (or take away characters) when it produces the pseudo-translated output.

First, choose where to change the length - shall memoQ change the length of segments or words? Choose segments or words under Change length of.

And if memoQ needs to expand words or segments, what characters shall it use? Type these characters in the Expansion characters box. Later, this will help you find the expanded words or segments in the documents.

Finally, specify the length change using the sliders. If you set the length to more than 100%, memoQ will insert characters from the Expansion characters box. If you set the length to less than 100%, memoQ will take away characters at random. The scale is logarithmic, so that you can fine-tune expansion/shrinking better within the usual range of 20-200%.

Preview: While you work on the replacement and length change settings, watch the Preview boxes at the bottom. Under Pseudo-translated text, memoQ always shows the output that the current settings would produce. Under Sample text, you can edit the text, and see how the pseudo-translated output changes.

To save your incomplete configuration, so that you can continue working on it later: Click Save draft. A Save as window opens, and memoQ saves an XML file.

To load a configuration, click Load draft. An Open window appears, where you can specify the same XML file. A new unsaved configuration will be created, and you can complete it. Click Save when you are ready, and memoQ will validate the configuration.

Local resource only: You can only do this when you are editing a local MT settings profile. Profiles on a server won't let you save or load drafts.

There can be only one configuration for each language pair. If you need to create a different configuration for a language pair, but you don’t want to lose your old configuration, export it: Click Export. memoQ will save it in an XML file. You can choose the folder and the name for the XML file. After this, create your new configuration, and assign the same language pair to it.

Later, if you want to use the previous configuration, just import it back: Click Import.

You can also use Export and Import to copy configurations between computers. In particular, if you want to configure pseudo-translation on a memoQ server, you will need to export the configurations you need to use. Then, on the server, copy them to C:\ProgramData\MemoQ Server\Plugins\MemoQ.PseudoMT\.

Local resource only: You can only do this when you are editing a local MT settings profile. Profiles on a server won't let you export or import configurations.