Another umlaut problem

Question

Term matching fails for accented word. Although the TB contains "Fachboden" and "Fachb&ouml;den" , only "Fachb&ouml;den" appears in the term match list. Trados Studio 2019.

Daniel Brockmann · Accepted Answer

Hi Anthony, 
 I ran a little test with a tiny local MultiTerm termbase just with "Fachboden" and "Fachb&ouml;den" in there. In my case, only the term "Fachboden" was found, no matter if the term occurred in the singular or plural form. I guess - just a thought - that it's best to store just the root form in a termbase anyway. For any derivatives like the plural in this example, the root form should be found in both local and online termbases thanks to fuzzy and (online) linguistic search. I guess you have both the singular and plural so that you can quickly insert "shelves" into the target? For this kind of use case, if both forms occur in your translation memory often, then if you create an AutoSuggest dictionary for the TM, then I would hope it would end up containing both forms in AutoSuggest while typing, so you can then select "shelves" quickly from there. So perhaps the termbase should just store the root form, and any derivatives come through AutoSuggest dictionaries. Another option for slightly larger TMs (> 5000 TUs) is to rely on fragment matching (upLIFT) from the TM. Such fragments can work like terms in many cases, and I would think both variants will be found in this case and also appear in AutoSuggest automatically (if both forms come up often enough to be statistically relevant). So in summary - I would think that termbases should ideally just have the root form, and any derivative forms should be found through TM-driven mechanisms like AutoSuggest dictionaries or fragment matching. Thanks, Daniel

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

Hi Anthony Rudd In 2021 CU9, I am able to reproduce what you are describing and I am replying to 2 different concerns raised. 
 1. Umlant From my perspective and in my summary: Studio cant differentiate between a words where the only different is the umlant. From this there are 2 areas to look into and are somewhat similar and overlapping 
 Firstly: you get term recognition even through you only have 1 true term Studio should not be picking up Fachb&ouml;den as a recognised term.

Secondly: Studio should recognise both words as two separate terms when umlant is the only difference
So when wanting to manage the word sold and söld as 2 different terms, it does not naturally behave in that way

Clearly umlant support for file based termbase seems odd, regardless of how I adapted my term search settings. 
 However, if you have access to Live Terminology through your Trados Live environment it is behaving as expected 
 2. Term Frequency Once again I am able to reproduce what you described with little more to add at this stage. I will look into these 2 key areas in more detail over the next few days and will update this post with any news 
 Lyds

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