Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Which tool for this specific requirement?
Poster: SierraMadre
Post title: Segmentation
[quote]Heinrich Pesch wrote:
Even if the tm has all the segments, it is possible the the software will use other segmentation rules or that you have to set the rules. In WFC I often use forced segmentation in order to avoid splitting units unnecessarily. A full stop not always means the unit is complete, there can be dozens of abbreviations and hardly they can be covered all by the rules.
Quite often I see in SDL Studio segments where two sentences are merged because the author forgot to put a full stop between. In WFC I would use forced segmentation, but in most environments there is nothing the translator can do about it.
So having a tm does not mean you could translate the same doc automatically without manual interference. [/quote]
Thanks Heinrich. I am accustomed to making these small adjustments to the target document before processing, it certainly can save a huge amount of time.
Topic: Which tool for this specific requirement?
Poster: SierraMadre
Post title: Segmentation
[quote]Heinrich Pesch wrote:
Even if the tm has all the segments, it is possible the the software will use other segmentation rules or that you have to set the rules. In WFC I often use forced segmentation in order to avoid splitting units unnecessarily. A full stop not always means the unit is complete, there can be dozens of abbreviations and hardly they can be covered all by the rules.
Quite often I see in SDL Studio segments where two sentences are merged because the author forgot to put a full stop between. In WFC I would use forced segmentation, but in most environments there is nothing the translator can do about it.
So having a tm does not mean you could translate the same doc automatically without manual interference. [/quote]
Thanks Heinrich. I am accustomed to making these small adjustments to the target document before processing, it certainly can save a huge amount of time.