Translation results settings

On the Filter settings tab, you can configure the translation memory, LiveDocs and term base hits.

Translation memory and LiveDocs section:

• Filter and limit translation memory and corpus hits: Check this check box to show only one hit for identical target segments.
• Maximum number of translation memory and corpus hits shown: In this box, set how many translation memory or corpus suggestions you want to see in the list.
• Show corpus hits without translation: Check this check box to show LiveDocs suggestions coming from monolingual documents.

Term base section:

• Longest source term hides shorter matches: If the source text contains two terms where one contains the other, memoQ can hide the shorter one. To do that, check this check box. For example, if the source text contains 'translation memory', but 'translation' is also a term in the term base, memoQ will show 'translation memory' only.

  One source term gives only one translation: When filtering is on, memoQ will show only one translation for identical source terms, no matter whether or not this check box is checked.

• You can tell memoQ how it should order the suggestions from the term bases. Choose one of these radio buttons:

  • Order of appearance in text: Term base suggestions appear in the same order as they occur in the source segment.

  • Alphabetical: Term base suggestions appear in alphabetical order by the source term.

• Order term base hits primarily by rank.

  • When checked: memoQ sorts term base suggestions according to the ranking of the term bases in the project, and also by the descriptive details of the term base entries (client, domain, subject).

  • When cleared: Suggestions are sorted by the source position first, then by the ranking of the term bases - or alphabetically first, and then by the ranking of the term bases. To view and check the ranking of term bases: In the memoQ desktop app, in Project home, choose Term bases, and check the numbers there.

  When memoQ ranks the term base suggestions, it gives a score to each suggestion. If a suggestions has more descriptive details in common with the project than another, it gets a higher score. If two suggestions have the same number of details in common, memoQ will check how important these details are. If a term base suggestion has more important details that match the project, it gets a higher score. The order of importance is this, from the most important to the least important detail: Project name, client name, subject, and domain.

  Example: if there are two term base hits for the same source expression, where the first one matches the client name, and the second one matches the subject, the winner is the first one because the client name is more important.

• Show term base hits with empty target: If this is checked, memoQ will show term base suggestions even if there is no translation for the term in the current target language, but there are translations in other languages.

On the Results order tab, you can order or disable (hide) hits by their type.

• Use the Move up and Move down arrows to change the hit types' order. The hits will appear in the Translation results list in the order you choose here.

• By default, all hit types are enabled. If you disable a hit type, e.g. Automatic concordance (LSC) by clearing its Enabled check box, it will not show in the Translation results list.

On the Automatic insertion tab, you can choose how memoQ inserts matches automatically.

Automatically insert best result after confirming segments:  When this is checked, memoQ inserts the best hit automatically. In the lower half of the window, you can choose what is the best hit. This is the default setting. If you clear this, memoQ does not insert the best hit automatically. All other settings in this window will be inactive.

Automatic insertion options section:

You have three options, from best to worst (in this order). The first one always works (if automatic insertion is turned on). You can select from the rest.

1. At first, memoQ tries to insert the best TM or corpus hit:

   memoQ finds the best match by checking the match rates of all matches for a segment. You can set a minimum match rate in the Minimum match rate spin box. If the best match is below this match rate, memoQ doesn't insert a match from a translation memory or a corpus.

2. If memoQ could not insert a match from a TM or a LiveDocs corpus, it can try to insert a machine-translated hit:

   Insert MT hit if no suitable TM hit is present: Check this check box if you have a machine translation plugin, and you want to use machine translation if there's nothing from the translation memories. If you clear this check box, or you haven't set up machine translation, memoQ skips this step.

3. If machine translation isn't available, or it is turned off, memoQ can copy the source text to the target cell.

   Copy source if no other match found: Check this check box if you want memoQ to copy the source text to the translation if there are no hits. This is turned off by default. If you turn it on, memoQ will always insert something in the target cells after you confirm the previous segment.