insert termbase terms in NMT suggestion

Question

Is there a setting that needs to be activated to have a matching term from a termbase inserted in an NMT suggestion; this is not happening by default; I am using the new NMT provider in Studio 2019.

Paul · Accepted Answer

Annick Guldentops 
 There has never been a feature like this, even with the old statistical engines. 
 We are going to start work shortly on activating dictionary support via the user interface for the SDL MT Cloud plugin but this won't use a termbase directly, at least not in the initial implementation. It will use the dictionaries that are available as part of an SDL MT Cloud account.

Paul · Answer

Christine Bruckner 
 Indeed... and the Glossary Converter is still useful today. The import feature for these dictionaries is based on Excel. If you go here and export an Excel after adding a couple of terms then you can see what format is required: 
 
 Basically it's a simple source/target/(optional)comment: 
 
 The rules you mention are also important to follow for the best results. 
 Christine Bruckner said: Would be good to have an app for supporting such termbase - MT dictionary conversion steps ;-) 
 This is an interesting idea. How do you see this working? I'm imagining a wizard that takes you through several steps: 
 
 identify the columns to keep and map to the ones required above 
 optionally stop at every entry that contains synonyms so you can check the ones you wish to keep
 
 support adding new entries if needed? 
 support editing?

As I think about this the rules do raise a lot of questions in my head, especially around the use of separate entries for gender based translations. For example, how will the NMT engine decide whether to use Lehrer or Lehrerin as the translation for teacher with only a simple substitution mechanism in place. If you have questions on all of this too, and I imagine you do, post them here and I'll get a comprehensive answer that should be helpful in working with this solution.

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insert termbase terms in NMT suggestion

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