Server Administrator - Weighted counts

In this tab, you can set the weight for each match category, so that memoQ can compute weighted word counts when it runs Statistics in online projects. But what are they?

Compared to translating the text from scratch, you need to work less on a segment if there's a translation memory match. Before you start working, you need to have an idea how much that work will be. Especially when the job is about updating the translation of documents to newer versions. In this case, the actual translation work can be a lot less than the total word count of the source documents - because for much of the text, you can use the previous translations.

memoQ gives you the word counts grouped by match categories: you'll know how many words are in segments that have 100% matches; how many have 95-99% matches etc.

For each match category, you can have a weight. The weight is between 0% (no work at all) and 100% (translating every word from scratch). You multiply the word count in a category by that category's weight. This gives you a weighted word count.

Example: If a segment has a 90% match, that usually means a difference of one word. Your weight for that match category (85-94%) could be 50%. If the segment is 10 words, you count 5 words for that segment.

Counting this makes sense only if an online project has at least one translation memory or LiveDocs corpus.

Managing memoQ TMS: To do this, you need to be a member of the Administrators group on the memoQ TMS, and have the project manager edition of memoQ.

How to get here

  1. Under Category, click Weighted counts. The Weighted counts pane appears.

    The Server administrator window's Weighted counts pane, showing a number field with up and down arrows for each fuzzy match rate category, a Save button, and Close and Help buttons at the bottom.

What can you do?

Set the weight for each match category: Change the percent in the box where necessary.

To save the changes: Click Save. If you click away from this tab, or you click Close, memoQ will ask whether you want to save or discard the changes.

When you finish

To return to memoQ: Click Close.

Or, choose another category to manage: