Use TM from previous analysis - leverage consecutive

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Hello all,

We frequently get different sets of files from clients, who want to know, 'If I translate File A, then you translate File B, then you translate File C, how would that impact the leveraging?'. Trados Workbench had an option 'Use TM from previous analysis'. We used this frequently, so we could determine if it was more cost-effective to process the files in order/consecutively.

Is there any way that you can do this in Studio? I understand that you can see Cross-file repetitions and internal fuzzy matches, but I'm not able to generate 1 log for File A and 1 log for File B, if they were processed consecutively. Currently, here is my workaround:

  1. Get Bilingual of File A, get target segments to at least a 'draft' status (pre-translate, copy source to target, change segment status to draft)
  2. Import bilingual A into a copy of the TM
  3. Run analysis of File B against the TM copy.
  4. Take Bilingual of File B, get target segments to 'draft' status
  5. Import bilingual B into copy of the TM.
  6. Run analysis of File C against the TM copy.

Is there an easier way to do this? Right now, I have 1 file that has 37,000 segments and it's taking a while.

I'm using Studio 2014 SP2. Any help would be appreciated!

Best, Mindy

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  • Hi,
    regarding the description in producthelp.sdl.com/.../4522.html:
    If I remember correctly, you need to change the status of the pretranslated segments where the source has been copied to "Draft" or "Translated" and make sure that the corresponding option is ticked when running Update Master TM. Otherwise they have the status "Not translated" and you can only update a TM with Status "Draft" or higher.

    But I fully agree that this is one of the Trados 2007 features that should be re-implemented in Studio. It took 10 years to get the "Merge" option for TM updates back (it existed in Trados 2007 and now in Studio 2017), so maybe there is hope for an anniversary re-implementation of "Use TM from previous analysis " ;-)

    Kind regards
    Christine
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