Translation memory (TM)? Tagapagpost sa thread: Gregor Trebec
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Gregor Trebec
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Hello,
Tell me about TM.
Does it suggest to you translated words and terms while you are writing?
Is there even English - Slovenian TM in Trados? Is it downloadable?
What is the difference between translation memory and term base?
Many thanks,
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Nederland
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Gregor Trebec wrote:
Tell me about TM.
Does it suggest to you translated words and terms while you are writing?
Broadly, it suggests sentences.
Is there even English - Slovenian TM in Trados? Is it downloadable?
The TM is created by you yourself, while you translate. When you start translating on a project, your TM is empty for that project. Trados then adds your sentences to it. Then, when it encounters a similar sentence, it tells you about it. Sometimes a client will send you a TM that was created/started by another translator. You can also use a TM that you had translated previously.
What is the difference between translation memory and term base?
You have to add terms to the term base manually. Sentences get added to the TM automatically.
| | | | Gregor Trebec
Slovenia
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Thank you for that, always available.
Can i add translated words and terms even when i have no project?
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Gregor Trebec wrote:
Thank you for that, always available.
Can i add translated words and terms even when i have no project?
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Gregor Trebec wrote:
Thank you for that; you're always available.
Can I add translated words and terms even when I have no project?
You could create a TB outside the CAT tool and import it later, but why would you want to do that?
Typically, you would add project-specific terms. If you create a generic TB for all projects, you will end up with a bunch of false positives (which can result in errors; you can overlook or overcorrect a term if there are too many). Important terms would be missing.
But maybe it's different for your projects
| | | | Gregor Trebec
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[quote]Nadia Silva Castro wrote:
Gregor Trebec wrote:
You could create a TB outside the CAT tool and import it later, but why would you want to do that?
So i don't wait for a project to start a TM. That way, i would be ready and have words already at disposal.
| | | | Zea_Mays
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[quote]Gregor Trebec wrote:
Nadia Silva Castro wrote:
Gregor Trebec wrote:
You could create a TB outside the CAT tool and import it later, but why would you want to do that?
So i don't wait for a project to start a TM. That way, i would be ready and have words already at disposal.
What you can do is taking previous work - source and target - and create segments with single sentences, but this only makes sense when your projects are very similar in terms of topics and style. I think you can also import previous bilingual Trados or other CAT files (even Word should work) and create a TM with them - again, if it makes sense.
TB = Term bases = glossaries can be created as well, where you'll only put specific/technical terms in that have been approved/provided by clients and/or are commonly used in a particular context. So you'll not enter "hand" or "morning" but "IP strategy" for example.
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| | | | Samuel Murray
Nederland
Local time: 17:23
Kasapi (2006)
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Gregor Trebec wrote:
Can I add translated words and terms even when I have no project?
You can always add terms to the termbase (i.e. the glossary), but generally you can only add sentences to a TM while you are doing a translation.
Well, no, you *can* add sentences to a TM without a project, by taking an existing text and its existing translation and then using a process called "alignment" to add their sentences to the TM, but that is generally something you do in special cases or scenarios, e.g. when you're preparation for a very large project and you know that you will be able to use a TM like that. You wouldn't add sentences to a TM just out of the blue, just to keep yourself busy.
You can either create a new TM for every new translation job, or you can create one single large TM that you re-use every time you have another translation job. Then, while you translate, the sentences that you translate are automatically added to the TM.
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