Pre-translate and statistics

Use the Scope and lookup tab for this.

A scope tells memoQ which documents 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 two or 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 match with context: Pre-translate a segment only if there is a context (101%) or a double-context (102%) match.

▪Exact match: Pre-translate a segment only if there is an exact (100%) match or a context match.

▪Good 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, choose Settings. Click the TM settings icon, and edit the TM settings profile that is active in the project.

▪Any 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 the next section).

There are some further options to fine-tune the process:

▪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 match with context or Exact match from the radio buttons.

▪Use machine translation: 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, memoQ will use the machine translation systems available in your copy of memoQ. To make it work, check this check box. To set up machine translation, use the Machine translation pane of the Options window. To learn more, see Help about the Machine translation pane.

▪Perform fragment assembling: If there is no match from the translation memories or from the LiveDocs corpora, memoQ can insert a fragment-assembled match. Check this check box to make it work. To fine-tune the details of fragment matching, click Settings. 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. This does not work if you also use TM-driven segmentation.

To do this, click the Confirm/lock tab.

memoQ can automatically confirm or lock segments that were pre-translated. Only confirmed or proofread segments count in progress information. A document is 100% complete only if all segments are confirmed or proofread. If you do not want others to change the translation, you can also lock these rows.

First, tell memoQ which segments should be confirmed or locked. Use the radio buttons under Rows to confirm/lock based on match rate:

▪Do not confirm or lock segments: Does not confirm pre-translated segments. They remain in the pre-translated status.

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

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

▪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.

▪Only if match is unambiguous: If this is checked, memoQ will not confirm or lock a segment if there are two or more exact or better matches for it.

Second, tell memoQ what should happen to a segment that has the kind of match you are looking for. Use the radio buttons under Status change:

▪New status: pre-translated: Does not change the status of the segments.

▪New status: Translator confirmed: Confirms the segments to as Translator confirmed.

▪New status: Reviewer 1 confirmed: Confirms the segments to as Reviewer 1 confirmed.

▪New status: Reviewer 2 confirmed: Confirms the segments to as Reviewer 2 confirmed.

▪Make rows locked: If you check this check box, memoQ will also lock the segments it confirms.

To do this, click the Versioning tab.

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 does not take snapshots of the documents, neither before nor after pre-translation.

▪Create minor version snapshot before pre-translation: Check this check box to create a new minor version before pre-translation. It is recommended to add a Note, too.

▪Create minor version snapshot after pre-translation: Check this check box to create a new minor version after pre-translation. It is recommended to add a Note, too.

To do this, click the Statistics tab.

memoQ can combine pre-translation and statistics in one go. To make it work, check the Perform statistics check box here. The analysis report will appear in Project home, under Overview.

For a detailed description, see Help about creating an analysis report. Or, see Help about the Statistics window.

Don't use Trados 2007-like word counts: Normally, memoQ counts words like Microsoft Word does. In the past, when Trados 2007 or earlier (Trados Translator's Workbench) used to be a dominant translation tool, it was important that memoQ could produce similar word counts - so that translation companies could compare them. This is no longer the case. Use the Trados 2007-like word counts only if your client still works with an early Trados version, and they insist on using it.

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.