Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tool that allow very simple lookup of dictionary words/expressions (Japanese => English)
Poster: MikeTrans
Post title: A good concordancer like XBench
CafeTran is indeed a very complete CAT tool that goes far beyond the simple term search during translation, but if you are 'only' looking for term retrieval, then what you need is a good concordancer, or at least if I understand it from your description, an access to online dictionaries which also show context for the strings you look for. There are not many of them, Linguee is such one but it doesn't contain Japanese as a language. Try searching the web for an analogue online dictionary.
XBench 2.9 is a free concordancer that has a shortcut to recall word/phrases selections from almost any app and display concordance results (with complete context) from a database. It supports a large nr. of database formats, also Trados formats and TMX for import/export. It handles very well big databases and includes a QA checker. It has no direct pre-defined plugins for web searches, but there is a dedicated tab for them, you need to define the adress and it will do clipboard searches. Do so once you find a convenient web dictionary for you.
I cannot swear that the tool supports asiatic languages, but give it a try.
Mike
[Edited at 2017-01-24 01:56 GMT]
Topic: CAT tool that allow very simple lookup of dictionary words/expressions (Japanese => English)
Poster: MikeTrans
Post title: A good concordancer like XBench
CafeTran is indeed a very complete CAT tool that goes far beyond the simple term search during translation, but if you are 'only' looking for term retrieval, then what you need is a good concordancer, or at least if I understand it from your description, an access to online dictionaries which also show context for the strings you look for. There are not many of them, Linguee is such one but it doesn't contain Japanese as a language. Try searching the web for an analogue online dictionary.
XBench 2.9 is a free concordancer that has a shortcut to recall word/phrases selections from almost any app and display concordance results (with complete context) from a database. It supports a large nr. of database formats, also Trados formats and TMX for import/export. It handles very well big databases and includes a QA checker. It has no direct pre-defined plugins for web searches, but there is a dedicated tab for them, you need to define the adress and it will do clipboard searches. Do so once you find a convenient web dictionary for you.
I cannot swear that the tool supports asiatic languages, but give it a try.
Mike
[Edited at 2017-01-24 01:56 GMT]