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' for a segment in the Translation Results pane, indicating an automatic translation rather than a 100% match from the translation memory.

Screenshot of Trados Studio displaying a 100% match found in the concordance search pane for the same segment, contradicting the 'AT' match shown in the Translation Results pane.

Screenshot of Trados Studio Project Settings dialog with Translation Memory and Automated Translation settings visible, including minimum match values and search options.



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[edited by: RWS Community AI at 1:09 PM (GMT 0) on 14 Nov 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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    [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.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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    [edited by: Trados AI at 10:19 AM (GMT 0) on 29 Feb 2024]
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