Hi Christopher Köbel

unfortunately, this is a weakness, and although there might be workarounds using Regex checks, I agree it should work "out-of-the-box". The same topic came up only a few days ago here.

There are suggestions to implement this, but they need more upvotes:

• https://community.rws.com/ideas/trados-portfolio-ideas/i/trados-studio/when-checking-for-non-usage-of-target-terms-accept-if-one-target-term-is-used
• This idea corresponds exactly to the issue you struggle with: https://community.rws.com/ideas/trados-portfolio-ideas/i/trados-studio/studio-behaviour-with-forbidden-terms
• And since we are at it, this is also a very useful feature request regarding how forbidden terms are handled: https://community.rws.com/ideas/trados-portfolio-ideas/i/trados-studio/exclude-forbidden-terms-from-automation-autosuggestfuzzy-repair-etc

I hope you can have a look at these and upvote them.

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

my search-fu this morning seems to have lost me. Sorry then, for opening a slightly superfluous thread.
Thanks for the pointers, I shall see what I can do with regular expressions in the meantime and also have a look at the "ideas" threads you mentioned.

Hi Daniel,

my search-fu this morning seems to have lost me. Sorry then, for opening a slightly superfluous thread.
Thanks for the pointers, I shall see what I can do with regular expressions in the meantime and also have a look at the "ideas" threads you mentioned.

Christopher Köbel

If you have a fairly small number of forbidden terms to check in the fashoin you outlined above, Regex might work for you. If you have a big TB full of terms with allowed and forbidden translations, I think you will find it difficult.

One of the issues is that the built-in term recognition has a degree of fuzziness (for MultiTerm Desktop) or some linguistic AI (MultiTerm Cloud) to recognize variantions of a word (Listeneintrag - die Listeneinträge, des Listeneintrags etc.). This would be hard to do with Regex for a large number of entries. Same for the recognition of words in the target segment.

If you had a dictionary with all valid variations of words or an AI that could produce that, you could probably automate the generation of either a word list or regex rules. Having said this, this should be a built-in functionality.

Don't worry about opening a new thread. The other one was four years old. Time to start afresh.

Daniel