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In memoQ TMS 12.0, you can only create analysis and edit distance reports in memoQweb. To create other kinds of reports, use the memoQ desktop app.

How to get here

Log in to memoQweb as an administrator or a project manager.
On the Active projects list, click a project.
At the top of the screen, click the Reports tab.
Above the report list, click the Create report link. The Create report page opens.

What can you do?

Choose the settings for an analysis report

Count how much a team of translators need to work on the project

If several translators work on a set of documents, you cannot know when a translator will translate a segment or a document. This means you also cannot know who will be able to use translations from others. As a result, you cannot predict what internal repetitions will be used.

Bottom line: If the translation is done by a team rather than one single translator, you cannot have a precise estimate of the work in advance. To find out the exact amount, use Post-translation analysis after the translation is finished.

To set this up for your team: in the Settings section, use these options:

Select the Use TMs and LiveDocs corpora from the project checkbox. This makes sure that memoQ checks the segments in every translation memory and LiveDocs corpus in your project.
Clear the Calculate homogeneity checkbox. memoQ should not count internal fuzzy similarities because we don't know the order in which segments are translated.
Clear the Include locked rows checkbox: If you received documents that contain locked rows, most of the time your client means that you must not touch those.
Select the Count 100% matches as repetitions checkbox: Use this option if a consistent translation is more important than using all possible matches from the translation memory.
Clear the Include cross-file repetitions checkbox, because we don't know who will be able to use repetitions.

Count how much a single translator needs to work on the project

To set this up for a single translator: in the Settings section, and use these options:

Select the Use TMs and LiveDocs corpora from the project checkbox. This makes sure that memoQ checks the segments in every translation memory and LiveDocs corpus in your project.
Select the Calculate homogeneity checkbox. memoQ counts internal fuzzy similarities, too. That is, memoQ predicts what matches you will get during translation while your translation memory is filled up.

Use this only if this job is really for a single translator: Don't select the Calculate homogeneity checkbox if two or more translators will work on this job.
Clear the Include locked rows checkbox: If you received documents that contain locked rows, most of the time your client means that you must not touch those.
Select the Count 100% matches as repetitions checkbox: Use this option if a consistent translation is more important than using all possible matches from the translation memory.
Select the Include cross-file repetitions checkbox: Since a single translator will work on this translation, they can use a segment that is repeated from another document in the project. Clear it if two or more translators will work on this job.

Choose the settings for an edit distance report

On memoQweb, you can only compare Inserted matches vs. current translation. In the memoQ desktop app, there are more settings.

In the Report type section, choose Edit distance from the dropdown.

To give you an idea of how much the translator worked, this setting compares the translator's work to the translation memory matches that were inserted in the segments.

Check the Show results for each file checkbox to create a separate report for each file you have in the project. Created reports are more detailed and show all the edit distance scores by type (e.g., X-Translated, No match inserted, Machine translated etc.)

When this option is checked, memoQ calculates statistics for each file and creates a file summary for all of them.

To get the amount of work in characters, use the Levenshtein method to measure the distance. This method makes more sense when you need to see how much a translator worked - not how much of the inserted text was changed. This is because in an average translation job, many segments are translated from scratch, without inserting a match first.

Use Fuzzy only if the work was similar to editing: Counting in percent is useful if there was a match for most segments. This happens if you update a translation to a new version, and there is little difference. Or, when there was machine translation and post-editing.

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.

Add a comment to the report

In the Description section, type something into the text field if needed. After you create the report, an info icon will appear after the report's name. To see the description, hover your mouse over the icon.

If you create many reports of the same kind in a project, you can use descriptions to find a report more easily.

When you finish

To create the report with the settings you chose: Click the Create report button.

To return to the Reports page and not create a report: Click the Cancel link.