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    Pre-translation Overview

    Pre-translation is the initial application of Non-Translatables, Translation Memories, Machine Translation and/or Human Translation Engines against a source text before it is presented to the Linguist in a Memsource Editor.

    Pre-translation settings can be set at the project level in general settings, when creating a new project or when defining a project template.

    They can also be set for individual jobs via the Pre-translate button in the job table but without options for the auto-propagation of repetitions.

    Pre-translation Options

    • Translation Memory

      Use of TM if assigned to the project and pre-translation threshold.

      The pre-translation threshold specifies the minimum score required for insertion of translation memory matches.

    • Non-Translatables

    • Machine Translation

      Use of MT and/or MTQE if assigned to a project.

    • Overwrite

    • Repetitions

      Auto-propagation

    • Set segment status to confirmed for

    • Pre-translate & set job to completed

    • Lock

    Pseudo-translation

    Pseudo-translation is used to create dummy text based on the target language. Both ASCII and Non-ASCII characters are supported. The text is used to simulate how a translated text may appear inside a layout based on contraction or expansion due to the translation. Pseudo-translation can also help indicate all translatable text is exported.

    Pseudo-translation options

    • Pseudo-translate using:

      Specified character(s) is added to source text.

    • Add to target segment start:

      Specified character(s) is added to the beginning of the segment.

    • Add to target segment end:

      Specified character(s) is added to the end of the segment.

    • Transliterate:

      A comma separated list of characters can be provided.

      Example:

      aá,AÁ,bь,Bβ,cć,CĆ,dđ,DĎ,eé,EÉ

    • Segment key hash length (characters):

      For pseudo-translations with a segment key, a pseudo-string to be prepended with a numerical hash value of the segment key can be provided.

    • Target segment length (%):

      Specify how much contraction is anticipated.

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