How to Improve Translation Memory (TM) prioritization

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We are looking to improve the match results from the TM. 
 What was asked of me to see if can be done is this. 
 1st: At time the TM results will give the name and date of confirmation well in the past even though someone recently confirmed very similar segment. How can we ensure that we get results from current translators or most current date of confirmation? 
 2 nd : When there is only a one or two word difference in search results is there a way to get these results to show up? Recently it seems more likely that when this situation happens the Machine Translation TM connection will populate the segment over our TM.

We do have specific language in Language Pairs listed before the MT engine. 
 
 We are currently using: Trados Studio 2022 SR2 - 17.2.8.18668

Lydia Simplicio · Accepted Answer

David McDermit There are a number of things that factor in searching of TM then sorting of hits and listing as you see in the Translation Results window. You specifically ask: 
 David McDermit said: How can we ensure that we get results from current translators or most current date of confirmation? 
 Please check to see if your "Show most recent translation first" option has been enabled as seen below. You also mention 
 David McDermit said: Recently it seems more likely that when this situation happens the Machine Translation TM connection will populate the segment over our TM. 
 There is another option " Look up segments in MT even if a TM match has been found" that if enabled means you will get both a TM match as well as a MT match, which could be deemed unnecessary given you say 
 
 David McDermit said: there is only a one or two word difference in search results 
 Given you are keen to prioritise TM leverage its worth exploring filters. Filters could be based on the default metadata captured like date range - or based on custom filters (fields). Working with fields and filters is a great way to do data cleansing and to help prioritise TM reuse. With regards to default metadata, I would suggest looking at segment usage count and last used on. More information of this can be found here 
 
 If you want to see a bit more about how custom fields can further help prioritise TM leverage perhaps this sort recording will be of help: https://www.trados.com/resources/prioritizing-your-translation-memories I hope this has given you some food for thought 
 Lyds

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

David McDermit Filters may it be for updating purposes or penalties are saved at project level, not under user profile settings. So your concern over Resetting Studio when needed should not have an impact. This also means you can use project templates to manage this across teams who subsequently work on the project in question. 
 Lyds

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