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Detailed cross-file analysis (optional step during project preparation)

The typical scenario for starting a large translation project with hundreds of files requires running an analysis against any TM to check the cross-file repetitions etc. This helps, but it's not perfect with regard to large number of files. What would be great is to have one (optional) additional step in the project creation stage, where Studio would analyse all source documents to create a sophisticated report clearly showing which documents are similar to each other, show suggestions for grouping files for packaging etc. As far as I know no such tool exists on the market, and all this is basically done by project managers based on their experience and intuition. And yes, I am aware that in many cases this will not be suitable due to linguistic aspects, but still I believe this would be a great addition. 

Agenor Hofmann-Delbor
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  • I've often thought this would be useful too, but when you ask a computer to do things like this it's going to look at all the possible combinations taking onto account internal fuzzies based on the order in which you handle the files.  This could run into thousands of analyses being run per project and I think that until we have a bit more processing power it's probably a non-starter.  Or did you have something less elaborate in mind?

    Sometimes a Project Managers experience beats a computer hands down ;-)

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  • I've often thought this would be useful too, but when you ask a computer to do things like this it's going to look at all the possible combinations taking onto account internal fuzzies based on the order in which you handle the files.  This could run into thousands of analyses being run per project and I think that until we have a bit more processing power it's probably a non-starter.  Or did you have something less elaborate in mind?

    Sometimes a Project Managers experience beats a computer hands down ;-)

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