Hi Team,
I would like to learn how Trados calculates the TM match rate.
I ran the word count analysis with Trados and another CAT tool, but there were discrepancies in the word counts. So would like to know how Trados calculates the match rate.
I like the responses from the Community AI... would make a great politician!
The main point being how it calculates is proprietary. But perhaps the one thing not noted is that Trados attempts to reflect the effort involved in working on a translation and not just a simple wordcount. There is an article here, written in 2012 and updated in 2015, but probably still valid for the fundamentals today:
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I like the responses from the Community AI... would make a great politician!
The main point being how it calculates is proprietary. But perhaps the one thing not noted is that Trados attempts to reflect the effort involved in working on a translation and not just a simple wordcount. There is an article here, written in 2012 and updated in 2015, but probably still valid for the fundamentals today:
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Hi Paul,
Yes, the AI's response is very close to what I want, but it seems that the information I need is not in its database.
And thank you for your link, it was a really good article, I will share this with my team.
But I still would like to know Trados define the fuzzy. (Not the program algorithm)
Such as this link from MemoQ:
Match rates from translation memories and LiveDocs corpora (memoq.com)
I'm asking because as you may saw in my image, Trados has more 95~99% than MemoQ.
I'm asking because as you may saw in my image, Trados has more 95~99% than MemoQ.
The answer is simply because the two tools don't count or recognise words in the same way. I think memoQ has an option to analyze based on Trados but I don't know how accurate it is. I stopped comparing the two tools a long time ago.... an in any event they still offer the 2007-like results. Doesn't seem too helpful to use something that is almost 20-years old.
If you are really insistent on knowing why there is a difference then I suggest you break the file down and compare bit by bit until you find where the differences are coming from.
Have you managed to get the information on how memoQ matches? Perhaps that would open the possibility for a plugin to do a memoQ-like analysis in Trados!
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Thank you for your advice and information, much appreciated!
Hello Paul,
Sometimes, due to the special requirements of our client,
we are not allowed to process sentences as duplicates where only the abbreviations are different.
e.g. DOX products referenced and ACD products referenced.
We need to translate such sentences according as fuzzy match, is there a solution?
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