Studio returning AT as "better" match than 100% match from TM

Hello!

On numerous occasions I have experienced the following issue, Studio only returning AT (pic 1) as match while 100% match is available via concordance search (pic 2). I have also attached PrtScr from my project settings. (pic nr. 3) 

Does Studio mean that AT was a better match than 100% from TM?  Why? Maybe my project settings are wrong?

AT comes from Google Cloud Translation, I have Studio 2019 where AT means Automatic Translation. 

Thank you in advance for explaining this issue. 

Screenshot of Trados Studio showing a translation match labeled 'AT' from Google Cloud Translation instead of a 100% match from the translation memory.

Screenshot of Trados Studio concordance search result displaying a 100% match from the translation memory for the same segment.

Screenshot of Trados Studio project settings with translation match value set to 80% and options for using multiple translation providers.



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[edited by: Trados AI at 10:19 AM (GMT 0) on 29 Feb 2024]
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    I think you're confusing concordance results with a TM search match.  The concordance is based on finding a part of your text in the TM and returning a match based on how close the part it found was.  So in this case the text you entered in the concordance search matched exactly a part of the TU in your TM, hence it gets a 100% match.  This is not reflective of a match for the whole segment:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio showing a 100% concordance search match for the text 'og varsel etter tvisteloven'.

    The AT is a machine translation, presumably triggered because you have your TM search results set so high that AT takes precedence when the TM doesn't contain a high enough match for the whole segment.  So if you lower this value for example, try 50% just for a quick test, then you should get a TM match instead of AT from Google:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio project settings with Translation Memory and Automated Translation options, highlighting minimum match value set to 70%.

    Also... just in case... make sure you have both these boxes enabled in your project settings.  I imagine you do, but worth a check!:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio project settings showing Translation Memory and Automated Translation providers, with Concordance option checked for Google Cloud Translation API.

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    I think you're confusing concordance results with a TM search match.  The concordance is based on finding a part of your text in the TM and returning a match based on how close the part it found was.  So in this case the text you entered in the concordance search matched exactly a part of the TU in your TM, hence it gets a 100% match.  This is not reflective of a match for the whole segment:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio showing a 100% concordance search match for the text 'og varsel etter tvisteloven'.

    The AT is a machine translation, presumably triggered because you have your TM search results set so high that AT takes precedence when the TM doesn't contain a high enough match for the whole segment.  So if you lower this value for example, try 50% just for a quick test, then you should get a TM match instead of AT from Google:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio project settings with Translation Memory and Automated Translation options, highlighting minimum match value set to 70%.

    Also... just in case... make sure you have both these boxes enabled in your project settings.  I imagine you do, but worth a check!:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio project settings showing Translation Memory and Automated Translation providers, with Concordance option checked for Google Cloud Translation API.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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