You can connect memoQ to a generic Moses machine translation engine. Moses is a statistical machine translation system that is the basis of several commercial machine translation services.

Before you can use a Moses system, you need to set up one or gain access to one.

The plugin in memoQ is designed to connect to a Moses system that is your own. If the Moses system asks for a user name and a password, you will not be able to use this plugin.

Building a Moses system requires considerable expertise. Do not start installing one if you do not have the necessary experience.

How to get here

1.Open the Options window: At the very top of the memoQ window - in the Quick Access toolbar quick-access-default -, click the Options (cogwheels) quick-access-options icon. The Options window opens.

2.On the Default resources pane, click the MT icon mt-icon. The MT settings pane appears.

3.Select the MT profile you are using and under the list, click Edit.

4.On the Services tab, find the Moses MT plugin and click its row. The Moses MT plugin settings window opens.mosesMT

What can you do?

1.Install or obtain your system. You will need the web address (URL) to the system. You can connect to systems that do not ask for a user name and a password. Typically, you will use this plugin to access your own Moses system.

2.In the Moses server URL box, paste the web address of the Moses system.

3.In the Moses MT source language and the Moses MT target language drop-down boxes, choose the language pair you will work with.

4.Click OK.

When you finish

To save the settings, and return to the MT settings tab of the Options window: Click OK, then click OK again.

To return to the MT settings tab of the Options window, but not save the new settings: Click Cancel, then click Cancel again.

To use the output of the tool in the translation editor:

1.On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.

2.On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown. Select an option other than Off below the dropdown.

3.Open a project with a supported language pair.

4.Open a document for editing, and check machine-translated suggestions.

To use the output in pre-translation:

1.On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.

2.On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown.

3.Open a project with a supported language pair.

4.Run Pre-translate. In the Pre-translate and statistics window, check the Use machine translation if there's no TM match check box. (memoQ will remember this.)