Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Trim internal fuzzies (AutoIt script)
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @James
[quote]James Plastow wrote:
Find the most frequent sub-strings in the text [and filter segments by it in Trados].
It does let you filter for segments with repeated phrases. [/quote]
That may be so, but that is not what I'm trying to achieve. Take a look at these two sentences:
- The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains in October and November each year.
- In the Old West, cowboys sat on their horses mainly on the plains where the grasses grew.
Both contain the sub-string "mainly on the plains" but they are by no means fuzzy matches of each other.
I'm not convinced that one can say that segments are fuzzy matches of each other if they share frequent sub-strings... but even if one could, [u]non[/u]-fuzzy matches may also contain those sub-strings, and we don't want to flag non-fuzzy matching segments.
[Edited at 2020-08-16 21:18 GMT]
Topic: Trim internal fuzzies (AutoIt script)
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @James
[quote]James Plastow wrote:
Find the most frequent sub-strings in the text [and filter segments by it in Trados].
It does let you filter for segments with repeated phrases. [/quote]
That may be so, but that is not what I'm trying to achieve. Take a look at these two sentences:
- The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains in October and November each year.
- In the Old West, cowboys sat on their horses mainly on the plains where the grasses grew.
Both contain the sub-string "mainly on the plains" but they are by no means fuzzy matches of each other.
I'm not convinced that one can say that segments are fuzzy matches of each other if they share frequent sub-strings... but even if one could, [u]non[/u]-fuzzy matches may also contain those sub-strings, and we don't want to flag non-fuzzy matching segments.
[Edited at 2020-08-16 21:18 GMT]