Amazon Translate plugin settings

From version 9.3, memoQ offers the Amazon Translate service also as a separate plugin (not just via the Intento service).

You have to sign up before using the plugin: On the Amazon Translate website, click the yellow Get started button. Sign in to your account, or create one. Follow the purchase flow to receive your access keys.

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 Amazon Translate 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 Amazon Translate plugin settings window. If it is turned off, click its row once to turn it on, then click it again to open the settings.

What can you do?

Sign in to the service

Copy and paste your Access key and Secret access key in the two text fields. Choose your region from the Region dropdown.

Manage your terminologies

In AWS, a terminology is a glossary file in CSV format that tells the MT service how to translate the source words or phrases it contains into the target languages it contains. The terminologies you upload belong to the selected region, and are stored in your AWS account (not on your computer). After you fill the Access key and Secret access key fields, and choose a Region, your terminologies appear in the Terminology list. Amazon Translate uses the terminologies that you enable.

Terminologies need to follow these rules:

  • Every column must contain phrases for one language.
  • The first column must contain the source language, and the following columns the target languages.
  • There can be maximum 10 target languages in one terminology.
  • The first row must contain the language codes (in the two-character ISO 639-1 format).
  • The value separator character must be a comma.
  • The file name must contain only letters from the English alphabet, hyphens (-) and underscores (_), and must not begin with an underscore.
  • The file name must contain 1 to 256 characters.

To add a terminology: Click the Import button. Browse to the file that contains the terminology, select it and click the Open button.

To enable or disable a terminology: Check or clear the check box of that terminology. memoQ saves the list of enabled terminologies into the MT settings resource you are editing.

To delete a terminology: Select the terminology, and click the Delete button.

Deleting a terminology happens instantly and is final: Think twice before you delete, because the Cancel button will not undo your changes.

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 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.)