Pre-translate and statistics

In the Pre-translate and statistics window, you set up and start pre-translation.

When you pre-translate a document, memoQ searches the translation memories and LiveDocs corpora in your project and inserts the best available match for each segment.

If there’s no exact match, memoQ can:

  • Assemble the segment from smaller fragments.

  • Use machine translation to suggest a translation.

  • Join or split segments to improve matches.

What's more?

  • You can control the quality of the matches used in pre-translation.

  • memoQ can also automatically confirm and lock segments that were successfully pre-translated.

  • Before pre-translation starts, memoQ can save a version of the document, allowing you to review the changes andreturn to the previous version if needed.

  • After pre-translation, memoQ runs an analysis to show how much of the text was filled in and the quality of the matches.

Pre-translation won’t start when memoQ TMS is running an automated task in an online project. When this happens, you’ll see a message asking you to wait a few minutes. This isn’t an error—once the task is done, you can continue with pre-translation.

How to get here

To pre-translate a local project (or a checked-out copy of an online project):

  1. Open a project.

  2. You may open a document for translation. However, the command works from Project home, too.

  3. On the Preparation ribbon, click Pre-translate. The Pre-translate and statistics window opens.

To pre-translate an online project:

  1. Open an online project for management.

    Requires memoQ project manager: You need the project manager edition of memoQ to manage online projects.

  2. In the memoQ online project window, choose Translations.

  3. Select documents if needed.

  4. On the Statistics/Preparation ribbon, click Pre-translate. Or, right-click the selection, and choose Pre-translate. The Pre-translate and statistics window opens.

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What can you do?

Use the Scope and lookup tab for this.

A scope tells memoQ which documents or parts to look at. You have the following options - choose one radio button:

  • Project: memoQ pre-translates all segments in all documents of the current project. If the project has more target languages, it will be pre-translated for every target language.
  • Active document: memoQ pre-translates all segments in the active document. The active document is the one you are looking at in the translation editor. You can choose this only if you are working on a document in the translation editor.
  • Selected documents: memoQ pre-translates all segments in the selected documents. You can choose this only if you select several documents in Translations under Project home. It doesn't work when the translation editor is in the front.
  • From cursor: memoQ pre-translates segments below the current position in the active document. The active document is the one you are looking at in the translation editor. You can choose this only if you are working on a document in the translation editor.
  • Open documents: memoQ pre-translates all segments in every document that is open in a translation editor tab.
  • Selection: memoQ pre-translates the selected segments in the active document. The active document is the one you are looking at in the translation editor. You can choose this only if you are working on a document in the translation editor.
  • Work on views check box: Check this to make memoQ go through segments in the views in the current project. You can choose this only if there is at least one view in the project.

    To pre-translate for just one target language: Before opening the Pre-translate window, choose a language on the Translations pane. Then select all documents, and open Pre-translate.

Use the Scope and lookup tab for this.

You may tell memoQ not to insert a match if the match rate is not good enough. Choose one of these radio buttons:

  • Exact TM or corpus match with context: Pre-translate a segment only if there is a context (101%) or a double-context (102%) match.
  • Exact TM or corpus match: Pre-translate a segment only if there is an exact (100%) match or a context match.
  • Good TM or corpus match: Pre-translate a segment only if there is a match above the "good match threshold". This is defined in the TM settings. To check this setting: In Project home, click Settings. Click the TM settings icon-mqop-s-tmsettings icon, and edit the TM settings profile that is active in the project.
  • Any TM or corpus match: Always pre-translate a segment if there is a match, no matter the match rate. In fact, it must still be above minimum match threshold (60% by default). To use this, you must turn off TM-driven segmentation (see below).

Only unambiguous matches: If you check this check box, memoQ will pre-translate a segment only if there is exactly one exact (100%), context (101%), or double-context (102%) match. If there are two or more, the segment will not be pre-translated. You must choose Exact TM or corpus match with context or Exact TM or corpus match from the radio buttons.

Check options for each kind of pre-translation:

Perform fragment assembly: If there is no match from the translation memories or from the LiveDocs corpora, memoQ can insert a fragment-assembled match. To make it work, check this check box. To fine-tune the details, click the Fragment assembly settings link. The Fragment assembly settings window opens. You can choose what counts as a fragment, and how memoQ should put together a fragment-assembled match from them.

Under Matches to include, you can choose to replace terms, non-translatable items, numbers, results of auto-translation rules, and fragments from translation memories and LiveDocs corpora. Normally, memoQ will use all of these to replace parts of the source text. If you do not want to use one or another, clear the check box of one of these items.

Next, choose how much the fragment-assembled match should cover from the source text. Choose one of the radio buttons under Suggest only:

  • Full matches covered by one single hit: The fragment-assembled match must cover the entire source segment, consisting of one single fragment match. Practically, this turns fragment matching off.
  • Full matches covered by several hits: The fragment-assembled match must cover the entire source segment. This means that every word of the source segment must be replaced by something from the resources.
  • Matches with a coverage of at least: Only part of the source text must be replaced. To set how much, choose a percentage in the box next to the radio button. Normally, memoQ offers fragment matches if it can replace more than 50% of the source text.

You can have fragment-assembled suggestions that does not contain any source text. In this case, text that cannot be replaced will not be there in the suggestion. For this, check the Delete source text without any match check box.

Normally, memoQ adjusts the lowercase/uppercase setting of the terms to the source text that is replaced. To stop this, check the Do not change the case of terms check box. When this is checked, memoQ will keep the lowercase/uppercase setting from the term base.

Use machine translation if there's no TM match: If there is no match from the translation memories or from the LiveDocs corpora, memoQ can insert a machine translation of the source segment. To do that, it will use the machine translation services set up in the project's MT settings resource.

To make it work:

  1. First, check this check box.

  2. To set up the MT settings resource, use the Resource Console's MT settings page in the memoQ desktop app.

  3. Then add the resource to the project on the Settings page in Project home (local projects and checked-out copies of online projects) or memoQ online project.

Use machine translation with AIQE values: 

With an AI-based quality estimation (AIQE) service, you can use more than one MT services in the same pre-translation. The AIQE service will choose the best service for each segment. To do that, it will use the machine translation services set up in the project's MT settings resource.

To make it work:

  1. First, check this check box.

  2. To set up the MT settings resource, use the Resource Console's MT settings page in the memoQ desktop app.

  3. Then add the resource to the project on the Settings page in Project home (local projects and checked-out copies of online projects) or memoQ online project.

Use TM-driven segmentation:

memoQ can automatically join or split segments if there are better matches that way. If you are pre-translating for good (or better) matches only, memoQ can try to join or split segments to see if there is an exact match that way. To do this, check the Automatically join and split segments for best match check box. Then, if there is no exact match for a segment, memoQ will check if the segment plus the next ones offer a good or an exact match. If joining does not work, but there is an exact match for the first part of the segment, memoQ will split the segment after this exact match, and it will continue to examine the second part of the split segment for automatic joining and splitting. To fine-tune the details, click the Settings link next to this check box. The TM-driven segmentation settings window opens.

Tell memoQ which TMs, corpora, and MT services you need to use for each language:

  1. Click the Select TMs and LiveDocs corpora link.

    The Select TMs and LiveDocs corpora for pre-translation window opens:

    The Select TMs and LiveDocs corpora for the pre-transition window showing translation memories and LiveDocs corpora available for use. In the bottom-right corner are the OK, Cancel, and Help buttons.

     

    memoQ uses the TMs and corpora which have their check boxes checked.

  2. To check or clear the check boxes for each TM or corpus: Click the Select all or Deselect all links.

  3. To save your changes and return to the Pre-translate and statistics window: Click the OK button.

  4. To return to the Pre-translate and statistics window without saving: Click the Cancel button.

MT services: 

  1. Click the Select MT and AIQE services link. The Select MT and AIQE services for pre-translation window opens.

  2. If a language check box is cleared, memoQ won't machine translate for that language.

    If a language check box is checked, its dropdown shows the MT services set up in the project's MT settings resource.

  3. To use multiple MT services, check the AIQE check box. memoQdisplays available AIQE provider.

  4. To save your changes and return to the Pre-translate and statistics window: Click the OK button.

  5. To return to the Pre-translate and statistics window without saving: Click the Cancel button.

When setting up pre-translation in a template, the window looks a little different:

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When you set up a template, you do not know exactly which TMs, LiveDocs corpora or MT services will be used on projects created from it. But you can tell memoQ if it should use the Working TM, Master TM, Reference TMs, and LiveDocs corpora for pre-translation, or not. You can also tell memoQ to use machine translation or not. Check or clear these check boxes as needed.

If pre-translation is not good enough, you can start over: Use the Clear translations window to clear the pre-translated segments. Change settings - and add or remove translation memories or LiveDocs corpora in the project -, and run Pre-translate again.

To do this, click the Confirm/lock tab.

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A document is 100% complete when all segments are confirmed as translated or reviewed, and only these confirmed segments count in progress information. memoQ can automatically confirm or lock pre-translated segments for you. If you don't want others to change the translation, you can also lock these rows.

  • Select which segments should be confirmed or locked under the TM inserted match rows based on match rate dropdown:

    • Do not confirm or lock segments: Pre-translated segments will stay in the pre-translated status.

    • Exact match: Confirms and/or locks exact (100%) or better matches.

      Be careful with this setting. Without the context, pre-translation may insert inadequate translations.

    • Exact match with context: Confirms and/or locks context (101%) or better matches.

    • Exact match with double context: Confirms and/or locks double-context (102%) matches.

    • Only if match is unambiguous: Use this option to avoid confirming or locking a segment if there are two or more exact or better matches.

  • Next, specify what should happen to a segment with the match you're looking for. Under Status change select:

    • New status: Pre-translated : If you don't want to change the status of the segments.
    • New status: Translator confirmed : Sets the segments as Translator confirmed.
    • New status: Reviewer 1 confirmed : Sets the segments as Reviewer 1 confirmed.
    • New status: Reviewer 2 confirmed : Sets the segments as Reviewer 2 confirmed.
    • Make rows locked: Use this option to lock the confirmed segments.

    • To do this, click the Versioning tab.

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    memoQ can take snapshots of a document before and after pre-translation. This way you can check the changes, or return to the previous version if anything goes wrong.

    Normally, memoQ doesn't take snapshots of the documents, neither before nor after pre-translation.

    • Create minor version snapshot before pre-translation: Use this option to create a new minor version before pre-translation. We recommend adding a Note.
    • Create minor version snapshot after pre-translation: Use this option to create a new minor version after pre-translation. We recommend adding a Note.

    To do this, use the Statistics tab.

    memoQ can combine pre-translation and statistics in one go. To make it work, check the Perform statisticscheck box. The analysis report will appear in Project home, on the Overview page (in local projects and checked-out copies of online projects), or in memoQ online project, on the Reports page (in online projects on a memoQ TMS).

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    For a detailed description, read the documentation about:

    Don't use Trados 2007-like word counts: Normally, memoQ counts words like Microsoft Word does. Use the Trados 2007-like word counts only if your client still works with an early Trados version.

    If some target segments already have text, pre-translation overwrites them in some cases, and leaves them as they are in other cases:

    • Empty (Not started) segments are always filled in if there is a match.
    • Previously pre-translated segments are overwritten if memoQ has a better match than the one that was used earlier.
    • memoQ will not change edited or confirmed segments. If you need to overwrite these segments, you need to clear them first using the Clear translations command.

    When you finish

    To run the pre-translation, and return to the translation editor, to Project home, or to the memoQ online project window: Click OK.

    To just return to the translation editor, to Project home, or to the memoQ online project window, without changing the documents: Click Cancel.