Moses MT plugin settings
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
- Open the Options window: At the very top of the memoQ window - in the Quick Access toolbar -, click the Options (cogwheels) icon. The Options window opens.
- On the Default resources pane, click the MT icon. The MT settings pane appears.
- Select the MT profile you are using and under the list, click Edit.
- On the Services tab, find the Moses MT plugin and click its row. The Moses MT plugin settings window opens.
What can you do?
- 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.
- In the Moses server URL box, paste the web address of the Moses system.
- In the Moses MT source language and the Moses MT target language drop-down boxes, choose the language pair you will work with.
- Click OK.
When you finish
To save the settings, and return to the Default resources tab of the Options window: Click OK, then click OK again.
To return to the Default resources 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:
- On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.
- Open a project with a supported language pair.
- Open a document for editing, and check machine-translated suggestions.
To use the output in pre-translation:
- On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.
- On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown.
- Open a project with a supported language pair.
- 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.)