Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: A good, easy, free tool for a smallish glossary for long novel?
Poster: Meta Arkadia
Post title: The high-tech way
[quote]philgoddard wrote:
just use a pen and paper?[/quote]
Exactly. Especially for a novel. I can imagine term consistency being crucial for a computer manual, but for a novel?
Anyway, say if you want to check the names in the novel, here’s the high-tech approach:
[*]Download and install Andras’ free and phenomenal LF_Aligner, and align the original text with your translation. Save as a TMX file.It may take some time, and you’ll have to check the result, but it will then allow you to see the original novel next to your translation on sentence level:
[*]Download and install the free version of CafeTran to open it. This version is limited, but good enough for this purpose.
[*]Download and install AntConc to create a list of all words in the original novel, but be sure to “deduct” so-called “stopwords.” You can download them here.
[*]You will now be confronted with a list that’s still huge, so you’ll have to check “manually” which words may cause problems. For example, you can filter on capital letters to get all the names in the novel.
[*]Run CafeTran, drop your TMX file on the Dashboard, select “Edit TMX Memory,” and add a Memory for terms. Use the list created in the previous step to search for a term, and add it with its correct translation to the memory. Perform a QA for terms consistency. Since the free version of CafeTran is limited to 500 terms, you may have to repeat this process several times.
It’s quite possible other free CAT tools (OmegaT?) can do the same thing without the 500 terms restriction, but I’m afraid I don’t know.
Useful? For a novel, I have my doubts. But it can be fun. Maybe.
Cheers,
Hans
Topic: A good, easy, free tool for a smallish glossary for long novel?
Poster: Meta Arkadia
Post title: The high-tech way
[quote]philgoddard wrote:
just use a pen and paper?[/quote]
Exactly. Especially for a novel. I can imagine term consistency being crucial for a computer manual, but for a novel?
Anyway, say if you want to check the names in the novel, here’s the high-tech approach:
[*]Download and install Andras’ free and phenomenal LF_Aligner, and align the original text with your translation. Save as a TMX file.It may take some time, and you’ll have to check the result, but it will then allow you to see the original novel next to your translation on sentence level:
[*]Download and install the free version of CafeTran to open it. This version is limited, but good enough for this purpose.
[*]Download and install AntConc to create a list of all words in the original novel, but be sure to “deduct” so-called “stopwords.” You can download them here.
[*]You will now be confronted with a list that’s still huge, so you’ll have to check “manually” which words may cause problems. For example, you can filter on capital letters to get all the names in the novel.
[*]Run CafeTran, drop your TMX file on the Dashboard, select “Edit TMX Memory,” and add a Memory for terms. Use the list created in the previous step to search for a term, and add it with its correct translation to the memory. Perform a QA for terms consistency. Since the free version of CafeTran is limited to 500 terms, you may have to repeat this process several times.
It’s quite possible other free CAT tools (OmegaT?) can do the same thing without the 500 terms restriction, but I’m afraid I don’t know.
Useful? For a novel, I have my doubts. But it can be fun. Maybe.
Cheers,
Hans