SYSTRAN MT plugin settings

To set up the SYSTRAN machine translation service and work with memoQ, you need access to a SYSTRAN Enterprise MT server.

How to get here

  1. At the top of the memoQ window, click the Resource console Resource console icon. icon. The Resource console window opens.
  2. In the Server URL list, choose or type the server's address. Or, to see local resources only, choose My computer. Click the Select Select icon. button.
  3. In the left-side pane, click the MT settings MT settings icon. icon. The MT settings pane appears.
  4. For projects with more than one target language: In the top-right corner, choose a language from the Target language dropdown list if needed. Or, to use the same MT settings for all target languages, do not change the default value (All languages).
  5. Select the MT settings resource you are using, and click Edit under the list.
  6. On the Services tab, find the plugin and click its row. If it is active, click its row to open the SYSTRAN MT plugin settings window. If it is grayed out, click its row once to turn it on, then click it again to open the settings.

What can you do?

  1. Enter the URL of your SYSTRAN Enterprise MT system.
  2. Enter the API key you received with your subscription.
  3. Click Check login and refresh data.

Systran MT plugin settings window with URL and API key to insert and languages to assign to the profile.

To assign a machine-translation profile to a language pair: Click Assign profile. The Assign profile window opens:

Assign profile window where you can choose the source and target language and assign them to the profile.

First, choose the source and target language, and then choose a profile from the drop-down list. To assign the profile to this language pair: Click the Assign button.

To assign another profile to a language pair: In the Assigned profiles list, click the Edit Edit icon. icon next to the language pair. The Reassign profile window opens:

Reassign profile window where you can change languages and reassign them to the selected profile.

Choose another profile from the drop-down list, and click the Assign button.

To remove an assignment: Click the Delete Delete icon. icon next to the language pair. In the confirmation window, click the Unassign button.

SYSTRAN's Neural Fuzzy Adaptation (NFA) feature lets you send not only the source text, but its the best fuzzy TM match to the machine translation service. This way, pre-translation and the Translation results list's MT suggestions can be faster and more accurate.

To start working with SYSTRAN NFA, you need to turn it on. To do that:

  1. In the Edit machine translation settings window, click the Settings tab.

    Edit machine translation settings window showing Settings tab open with options for pre-translation, translation results, MatchPatch, Send best fuzzy TM match to, and Self-learning MT.

  2. In the Send best fuzzy TM match to: drop-down, select SYSTRAN MT plugin.

  3. To confirm: Click OK.

    Pre-translation and MT suggestions will now use SYSTRAN NFA.

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 return to the Default resources tab of the Options window (or to the Resource console), without saving the new settings: Click Cancel, then click Cancel 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 settings resource 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 is no TM match check box. (memoQ will remember this.)