Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Segment length analysis?
Poster: Jean Dimitriadis
Post title: Filter segments by length
In CafeTran Espresso, additionally to the CAT file analysis (number of segments/words/characters) [and SDL Trados can also provide these details without any fuzzy matching/TM attached], which gives a good idea of the average words number per segment, you can quickly sort (filter) segments by length (short or long first). I think MemoQ does offer that as well.
You can also use a QA step for displaying only segments above a user-defined maximum character count.
This is not a standard analysis as you mean it, but it does provide a rough overview that should be sufficient to understand at a glance whether the project has many short segments, many long segments, or a mix.
When speaking of translation difficulty, a quantitative analysis (especially total word count alone) can only get you that far.
I’m still refining my own pre-translation analysis process for time and translation difficulty estimation, it is a tricky subject for sure.
[Edited at 2019-04-26 18:23 GMT]
Topic: Segment length analysis?
Poster: Jean Dimitriadis
Post title: Filter segments by length
In CafeTran Espresso, additionally to the CAT file analysis (number of segments/words/characters) [and SDL Trados can also provide these details without any fuzzy matching/TM attached], which gives a good idea of the average words number per segment, you can quickly sort (filter) segments by length (short or long first). I think MemoQ does offer that as well.
You can also use a QA step for displaying only segments above a user-defined maximum character count.
This is not a standard analysis as you mean it, but it does provide a rough overview that should be sufficient to understand at a glance whether the project has many short segments, many long segments, or a mix.
When speaking of translation difficulty, a quantitative analysis (especially total word count alone) can only get you that far.
I’m still refining my own pre-translation analysis process for time and translation difficulty estimation, it is a tricky subject for sure.
[Edited at 2019-04-26 18:23 GMT]