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1. 1 Translating the Translation Editor window shows the translation interface It has 2 columns source text in the left column and translated text in the right column When you open a segment during your translation MateCat searches for matches from translation memories and from machine translations if enabled During the translation MateCat also automatically performs some quality checks on Tag mismatches Tag order mismatches Whitespace mismatches and translation conflicts 2 Finalising a project A progress bar at the bottom of the Translation Editor window shows the progress of your translation The translation is finished when the progress bar is at 100 complete when there are no To do words left and when no errors are reported in the QA module Le When the translation is complete and all issues have been fixed you can click on the Download translation button to download the translated file in the original format gt Both your private TM if any and the public shared translation memory Start working with MateCat 1 1 MateCat Home Page and Login There are currently two versions of the MateCat translation tool e http demo matecat com Open source version to translate XLIFF files The user can also install and administer the open source version on his her own server For further instructions and details refer to the installation guide at the following link http docs matecat com installation guide
2. e username matecat e password matecat Troubleshooting the image import In case you experience importing troubles most of times due to old VirtualBox setups the original Virtual Disk Image vdi is also available you may use it to create a working machine in VirtualBox manually see instructions below 1 Download the Virtual Disk Image vdi from the following URL http docs matecat com matecat 0 3 4 3 ubuntu 12 04 x86 zip 1 8 GB 2 Once the download is finished Open Virtualbox and create anew machine O Name MateCat VM O Type Linux O Version Ubuntu 32 bit 1 Provide at least 2 GB virtual memory 2 In the Hard Drive selection dialog choose to use an existing disk and select the vdi file you just downloaded 3 Start the machine Advanced manual setup on different platforms Although you can use MateCat in the virtual machine appliance with only a little performance overhead high load environments administrators may wish to deploy MateCat on bare iron The rest of this guide is about installing the application on a custom system MateCat requires Apache MySQL and PHP and runs on Linux 66 Windows and Mac Running MateCat natively on Mac or Windows is not supported If you want to install MateCat on Windows or Mac we suggest using the virtual machine appliance provided This guide will focus solely on Linux setup Linux Mandatory dependencies are e Apache2 Web Server gt 2 2 x with fo
3. MateCat Post editing and outsourcing made easy 898 FT matecat ch pro matecat com v A CAT tool for your business 38972 gt en US gt RIT A CAT tool for your business docx Engish US Len US gt taken r T A CAT tool for your business Un CAT tool per il tuo business Translation matches MateCat pushes what is considered the new frontier of Computer Assisted Translation CAT technology that is how to effectively and ergonomically integrate Machine Translation MT within the human translation workflow While today MT is mainly trained with the objective of creating the most comprehensible output in MateCat we target MT technology that will minimize the translator s post edit effort i1 To this end MateCat Is developing an enhanced web based CAT tool that will offer new MT capabilities such as automatic adaption to the translated coment celine learning from user corrections and automatic quality estimation Progress SSSR Manage Editing Log Docs Anonymous login Working with MateCat User manual and installation guide OC MR ER PUR eter crer ere trees EAEE EURE tener rere re rr 4 How Mat Cat Calculates Payable NOR ie ana 4 TO A SIs PAG ne een 5 Supported browser languages ROMA 6 Tron AO PTO EO a EE EEE E 8 PE On EMA CE a tin 10 AO OR ee ee een 35 Using TM matches MT suggestions and Glossary terms 35 How to Use Glossary Terms in Your Translated Segment 37 Manacine Pr
4. suggestions from the MT s and TM s if you work online 1 3 How To Upload File s for Translation Always remember to choose the language combination s of your project before uploading the file s to translate otherwise you will be asked to upload the file s again and the following message will be displayed Confirmation required Source language changed The files must be reimported ere ED If you need to select more than one target language please use the Multiple languages link From To English US English Multiple languages A box with the list of all supported languages will be displayed Check the boxes of all languages you need to translate into as shown in the screenshot below 11 Choose Multiple Languages 7 L Afrikaans Albanian wW Arabic LJ Armenian Basque Bengali Bielarus Bosnian Breton _ Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional _ Croatian _ Czech O Danish Dutch English _ English US Estonian _ Faroese Finnish Flemish French J Galician J Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Deselect all Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian J Irish Gaelic Italian _ Japanese Kazakh Khmer Korean J Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian _ Malay Maltese Maori Mongolian _ Montenegrin LJ Nepali Norwegian Bokmal Norwegian Nynorsk LJ Pakistan
5. It contains information about the number of words Payable Total New Repeated for the entire project and for each file job Payable words are marked in green and calculated by multiplying the words for each match type by the payable percentage 1 903 0 3 112 0 6 144 0 3 9 493 0 85 8 750 Assume you obtain the following analysis result 14 Internal x Payable Total New Repetition Matches Partial nus 100 Shin 75 99 75 99 j wh Fans ation context Payable Rate Breakdown 100 30 60 60 30 0 85 12970 File details 1 8750 12 077 0 1 903 0 112 144 0 9 493 In detail we have the indication of Payable words Payable word count is the sum of the weighted word count for each match type multiplied by its payable rate percentage Total words The total word count without leveraging any content from translation memory matches repetitions or machine translation This is similar to what Microsoft Word would give as a word count in a doc or docx file New words All words found in segments that e do not match any fuzzy or complete match in the private TM Key and or in the public TM e are not repeated in the project e donot have a suggestion from a machine translation Repetition Number of words of identical segments that occurs more than once throughout the project For example imagine that we find the following segments in our translation 15 1 My house is blue 2 My hou
6. MyMemory All Pairs Create Date Job Private TM Key Payable Words Progress Actions September 23 Tuesday 47063 English US gt German 554 Aa ar z 10 42 http pro matecat com translate 47063 55c25c10a0f6 1 128 Payablewords EI Ff Machine Translation MyMemory All Pairs Create Date Job Private TM Key Payable Words Progress Actions September 22 Monday 46931 English US gt French 06d8b80bb2fc5136e8a3 read 18 29 http pro matecat com translate 46931 c0f1a10f1524 write 11459140 By clicking on the job URL of a specific project it is possible to check errors during the translation and promptly advise the translator working on the project Through the QA module it is possible to check if there are tag errors or translation conflicts during the translation without waiting for delivery by the translator and thus save time From the Translation Editor window it is possible to access the Editing Log page by clicking on the Editing Log button at the bottom of the page In the Editing Log the Project Manager can check the time spent by the translator for editing each segment the total time spent by the translator to translate the entire file and check the edits made to suggestions The changes are highlighted with track changes This can help the Project Manager identify the Post Editing efforts of the translator to edit the segments 59 60 Appendix Keyboard Shortcuts MateCat re
7. MyMemory To enable the analysis ensure that in config file the following directive is set to true self sVOLUME_ANALYSIS_ ENABLED true enter daemons directory cd cattool daemons enable the fast Analysis and TM Analysis daemons using setuid www data to mk Wn H avoid breaking permissions 6 sudo restartAnalysis sh Remember to configure your server for the automatic startup of this script on each boot Translating other formats than XLIFF optional Warning this is advanced stuff for which no support is provided Open source version of MateCat supports out of the box XLIFF files only However it includes an API that enables you to attach a conversion service and translate other file formats beyond XLIFF please note that XLIFF is always internally used as a pivot format To enable conversion 1 implement the internal conversion service 2 ensure that the following directive is set to true in config file 3 self SCONVERSION ENABLED true Since this API is not yet documented a developer manual is going to be released in the future 74 Enabling Google login MateCat uses Google login as authentication mechanism In order to enable it you need 1 a Google account 2 a web domain either one of the following a public reachable domain i e http www yourdomain com the localhost domain only http localhost other local domains won t work If you don t have a client id and client se
8. a specific client that enables you to save your translation in a private translation memory that cannot be accessed by external users In MateCat each private TM is identified by a unique alphanumeric value called private TM Key It is the only value you need in order to associate your TM s with your project It is like a password to access your private TM in the MateCat Translation Memory server If you save your translations in the private TM they will be stored in your private translation memory only and you alone have exclusive use of and access to your contributions to that private TM If you save your translations in the public TM they can be viewed as suggestions by all MateCat users It would represent a human contribution to a public TM and would help other MateCat users during their translation jobs in MateCat 1 8 Howto Add or Create a Private Translation Memory If you need to associate a private TM with your project you can add an existing private TM or create a new one You can add or create a private TM either during the creation of the project or directly in the Translation Editor window This way your translations will be stored in a private TM identified by a key and cannot be ac cessed by external users although you will continue to receive suggestions from the public TM and MT Adding or Creating a Private TM for a New Project To add or create a private TM during the creation of the project you can choos
9. e http www matecat com Proprietary version which includes filters for 56 file formats This is the version we use as a reference for this user manual This version of MateCat is free for both personal and business translation jobs In order to store and recover your projects in MateCat you should log in by clicking on the login button at the bottom of the MateCat home page You will be asked to sign in using your Google account gt Docs Anonymous login 1 2 Creating Projects In MateCat translation jobs are organised into projects A project is made up of one or more translation jobs and each one is associated with a unique job URL Each project can be created with one source language and one or more target languages To create a new project in MateCat visit http matecat com All you need to do is select the language combination and upload the file s to translate This is necessary to create your project By clicking on More Options you can add options or change preferential options 10 If you need to store your project and recover it later you should firstly log in using the Login button at the bottom of the page This allows you to add all your projects to your Management Panel recover all information about projects such as the volume analysis or job URL and check the progress of translations Note it is not possible to work on MateCat offline You can only save your translation and receive
10. on v MATECAT PROJ 201312180546 10345 gt fr FR gt en GB XLIFF lecorre 8 ELECTRICITE pdf SOIT PAR TOUT AUTRE UF LE CORRE a TIMS V3 docx POURLADATEDEREC Gotocurrent segment 1 20 QA Messages At the top right of the MateCat window you will see an icon which warns of any potential QA errors in the translation The warning sign contains a red circle indicating how many errors have been found in the project The following example indicates that the project contains one QA error 42 Click on the icon to open the segment with the error A message indicates the nature of the error e Tag Mismatch lt g id 17 gt Interested buyers and sellers can sign up to find out more lt lt q id 17 gt Acquirenti e venditori interessati possono iscriversi per id nbsp gt lt g gt lt g id 18 gt here lt g gt lt g id 19 gt lt g gt saperne di pi kx id nbsp gt lt g gt lt g id 18 gt ECCO lt g gt lt g gt A Tag mismatch 1 T TRANSLATED Translation matches The tag lt g id 19 gt in the source segment indicated by the red arrow was not added to the target segment This generated a tag mismatch In order to fix the error you can gt copy and paste the tag from the source segment to the target and place it in the same position as in the source gt click on the tag in the source segment and drag and drop it to the target segment gt enter the symbol lt to display the list of th
11. order them based on your preference Languages English United States English United States Google Chrome is displayed in this language English x This language is used for spell checking Italian Italy Italian J ass Enable spell checking Custom spelling dictionary Spell checking enabled for US English To enable Safari spell checker for your target language follow these steps e Go to Safari gt Edit gt Spelling and Grammar e Show spelling and Grammar e Choose your language in the dropdown menu e Click on change 46 1 22 Editing Log You can access the Editing Log from the corresponding button at the bottom of the Translation Editor page The Editing Log contains statistical information about the translation mate 11601337 43563 gt en US gt fr FR lt Back to Translation Export All Data in CSV Job 43563 Editing Log Slowest 5 000 segments by time to edit Summary of words In too of words In too Words Avg Secs per Word of MT of TM Total Time to edit Avg PEE SLOW edits FAST edits 877 6 1s 100 0 01h 25m 24s 38 4 0 bd Editing Details Segment Suggestion Translation Diff View Segment Suggestion Translation Diff View In particular Segment ID Suggestion source Match percentage Time to edit PE Effort 21799870 Machine Translation 85 16m 18s 24 To view an article in 3D select it and press the lt g id 185 gt 3D View lt g gt button below the
12. project the private TM key is shown as the source of the suggestion for the first suggestion the segment is therefore automatically populated with this suggestion 35 When you add a private TM to your project MateCat automatically associates a name with the private TM key in order to recognise the source of the suggestion while translat ing It has the MyMemory_XXXX format where XXXX is a unique alphanumeric value for each private TM key e an 86 match from the public TM in this case the source is anonymous for the second suggestion e the Machine Translation suggestion the label of the source of the suggestion is MT for the third suggestion Depending on the source of the match and on the match percentage the following labels will be displayed If you have a 100 match from the TM If it is a MT suggestion ER The corresponding match percentage in case of a fuzzy match from the TM If you are taking part in a collaborative project you can also receive real time suggestions from the other translators working on the same project This means that if more than one translator is working on the same project because it has been split among several translators these translators share a private TM key and each of them receives suggestions for segments already translated within the same project 36 In this case the source of the suggestion will have the name of the shared private TM key You
13. uses a simple functionality to change the case of words in the editing area Just select one or more words and three buttons will appear to allow you to select the formatting you want and switch the case upper case lower case and capitalise first letter matecat 1105615 4749 gt n1 gt en 0 ORGINAL DR preview Q brochure_sibilla_ _descrizioni doc Italian it IT gt English en GB Payable Words 637 11844267 RICERCA CONTINUA CM research aA Aa T TRANSLATED Concordance Glossary Translation matches RICERCA CONTINUA CONTINUOUS RESEARCH Source anonymous 2014 09 07 t Adding line breaks and hidden text If you need to add line breaks in the target segment 39 e place your cursor where you want the text to break to a new line e press Shift Enter and the segment will divide into two separate lines The same number of lines will also be retained in the target document MateCat uses symbols for hidden characters such as tabs non breaking spaces and line breaks which are respectively and If one of them is present in the source text you must reproduce it in the target segment using the corresponding key or shortcut the Tab key on your keyboard to add a tab the Shift Enter shortcut to add a line break and Ctrl Shift Space shortcut to add a non breaking space Do not copy and paste them from the source text Placeables and untranslatable text Currently we cannot manage placeables and un
14. web application in Apache with the following commands sudo cp matecat vhost conf etc apache2 sites available cd etc apache2 sudo a2ensite matecat vhost conf sudo apache2ctl restart Create and customize MateCat configuration We are nearly there Go to the root of MateCat installation and add permissions to the storage directory cd cattool sudo chmod R 777 storage Go to configuration subdir cd cattool inc and create your config file from sample template cp config inc sample php config inc php 72 This configuration works out of the box with very default settings Have a look at next sections to further refine basic parameters Configure database address If your database resides on another machine change the directive self SDB_ SERVER localhost to self SDB_ SERVER lt your_db_server_uri gt Configure memcache location For a boost of performance during analysis you can enable fast Memcache counters by enabling the following directive self SMEMCACHE_SERVERS array localhost 11211 gt 1 to self SMEMCACHE_SERVERS array localhost 11211 gt 1 IF memcache resides on same machine leave localhost Otherwise put the right URL in place 73 Turning on the analysis daemon A killer feature of MateCat is the volume analysis function that counts full or partial repetitions in the file and searches for translation memory matches in the cloud TM
15. 8 Italian gt English Car Zar 4 _ 18 21 http pro matecat com translate 43748 df0ce85b2271 Pae 9 g i September 05 Friday 43749 Italian gt French 638 IFF 2 E 18 21 http pro matecat com translate 43749 8eda1cbfb557 September 05 Friday 43750 Italian gt German 638 Car ar J os 18 21 http pro matecat com translate 43750 c87c527a3792 E September 05 Friday 43751 Italian gt Spanish 638 CU ar 2 os a 18 21 http pro matecat com translate 43751 698e34936f22 36071 714Payablewords E U Machine Translation MyMemory All Pairs Create Date Job Private TM Key Payable Words Progress Actions September 05 Friday 43563 English US gt French O6d8b80bb2fc5136e8a3 714 5 09 42 http pro matecat com translate 43563 e1c235e2b760 Test 36015 4 Payable words BE EB U Machine Translation MyMemory All Pairs Management panel For each project you have 36200 2 549 Payablewords Ei W Machine Translation MyMemory All Pairs Create Date Job Private TM Key Payable Words Progress Actions September 05 Friday 43748 Italian gt English m i 637 E gt o E 18 21 http pro matecat com translate 43748 df0ce85b2271 e Project name 11605615 52 FA MateCat Project ID 36200 Total number of words in the project and link to the Volume Analysis Page 2 549 payable words Machine Translation Server MyMemory All Pairs Creation date September 05 Friday 18 21 Link to the transla
16. AT tools Calculation of the weighted word count takes into consideration repetitions and TM matches MateCat weighted words The MateCat word count which not only counts repetitions and TM matches but also generates reductions in weightings for internal matches and MT suggestions Raw words The word count without any reduction in weighting for repetitions or matches For each language pair you will find the details of the analysis In case of multiple language pairs this global report shows you the total project volume 11564672 Volume Analysis 942 808 9 MateCat weighted words 2 work hours at 3 000 w day English gt Italian Splitin 2 v Jobs Split Internal TM z Payable Total New Repetition Matches Partial TM 100 re Een 75 99 75 99 Payable Rate Breakdown 100 30 60 60 30 0 85 41610 File details 1 as 496 0 11 18 13 6 0 448 Translate English gt German Splitin 2 v Jobs LA Split Matches Partial TM 100 Hp en 75 99 75 99 Internal TM Payable Total New Repetition Payable Rate Breakdown 100 30 60 60 30 41609 Filedetails 1 496 0 11 17 13 0 85 Supported browser languages and formats All you need to use to start working with MateCat is an up to date version of a supported web browser Google Chrome 30 or higher on Windows Linux and Mac OS X e Safari 5 1 7 or higher on Mac OS X MateCat supports 79 languages works wi
17. DA 993 200 12 424 11 260 23 298 LA te 09 lent word MateCat equivalent words 4 work days at 3 000 w day English US gt Italian Internal TM Payable Total New Repetition Matches Partial ee ri an ra 75 99 75 99 context Payable Rate Breakdown 100 30 60 60 30 0 85 10528 1 File details 1 3 314 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 314 3 361 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 358 7 387 0 6 296 0 0 0 0 1 091 9 236 0 9 236 0 0 0 0 0 10528 2 File details 1 10528 3 File details 1 10528 4 File details 1 Translate Manage Anonymous login A job split in four parts In the event that you make a mistake and would like to undo the splitting just click on the Merge all button and the different parts will be merged back into the original job You just need to send each translator the Job URL for the part they will be working on When clicking on their link translators will only see the part of the document assigned to them as editable They can also see the rest of the file but they will not be able to edit it They will see the rest of the document being translated in real time and can refer to the other parts for comparison 57 They will also share a private TM key if previously associated where all translations will be stored so each translator will also receive suggestions for segments already translated by the other translators within the same project Each translation is complete once all seg
18. MateCat automatically opens the last segment you edited If you created the project yourself by logging in with your Google account you can recover the job URL from your Management Panel If you were not logged in during the creation of the project or if you did not create the project by your self remember to store the job URL in a safe place in order to recover it again easily 34 Translation Toolbox Using TM matches MT suggestions and Glossary terms When you open a segment for translation it will automatically populate with the first TM MT match available for that segment You will receive TM suggestions if you add a private TM key to the project or in the case of fuzzy matches found in the public translation memory They will be displayed as first suggestions just below the segment under the Translation matches tab If you have a personal translation memory you can add it to the project Please refer to the Add ing or Creating a Private TM for an Existing Project section On the right the tool gives information about the source of the match the creation date and the match percentage as shown in the screenshot below 1799808 Electrical Installation Electrical Installation Translation matches Electrical Installation Electrical Installation 3 Electrical Installation Electrical installation In this example we have e a 100 match in the private TM key that we added to the
19. T skip this section Otherwise install GIT by typing sudo apt get install git Then clone the repository in your directory of choice by typing cd cattool git clone git git assembla com matecat_source git cattool The above will create the directory cattool and will download all MateCat codebase in it Initialize the database Navigate to the configuration directory 70 cd cattool lib model and send the database template to your MySQL instance with the following command type the root password if prompted mysql u root p lt matecat sql Create the virtualhost Navigate to the directory cd cattool INSTALL Open in an editor the file matecat vhost conf sample gedit matecat vhost conf sample and substitute the string path with the fullpath of the cattool folder previously created via the clone action in this guide it s assumed to be home matecat cattool Important notice for Apache 2 4 x users The default configuration provided in sample virtualhost file doesn t work in Apache 2 4 x or higher Check your version with the following command apache2ctl v In case you are running a version of branch 2 4 x or higher please replace in matecat vhost conf sample configuration the directives 71 Order allow deny Allow from all with the following Require all granted Install the virtualhost Save the file modified as matecat vhost conf try not to overwrite the sample and enable the
20. anslation matches Details Implications Dettagli e implicazioni Details and implications Dettagli e implicazioni Details Implications Dettagli Implicazioni Your translation will appear in all segments having the same source but the status of the segments will remain untranslated You must approve them manually by clicking on the Translated button or use the CTRL Enter shortcut 1 18 Concordance Search Concordance searching allows you to search the translation memory both public and private if any for a particular word word sequence or phrase 41 The search will find and display all previously translated segments in the private TM Key associated with the project and in the public TM containing that word those words or that phrase You can perform a concordance search by entering or pasting the text to check in the Concordance tab on the Translation Editor page Alternatively you can select the words you would like to check and use the following shortcuts which will automatically open up the Concordance tab e on Mac OS X ALT CMD C e on Windows ALT CTRL C 1 19 Navigating through Files If you have uploaded more than one file for translation in the same project you can click on the job name at the top of the page to display a list of the files Clicking on the file name you will be redirected to the beginning of that file Click on Go to current segment to display the segment you are working
21. ant for users who want to install and administer the open source version on their own machines Overview MateCat is a client server web application Most of the interaction runs in the user browser client while all calculation along with user data permanently resides on the server side server To run MateCat as a end user connected to a remote server you only need 1 Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser 2 Amachine with a few GB of RAM 3 Internet connection To run MateCat server on your personal machine keeping all data on your machine and bearing all the load you also need administrator privileges to install Apache PHP and MySQL Running MateCat locally on your machine does not require an Internet connection Hardware requirements If you just want to test MateCat on a few million words you will need 1 server with Storage 50GB e CPU 2 core x 2 5 Ghz e RAM 4GB To manage 50M words per year of translation capacity you will need 1 server with e Storage 1TB e CPU 6 core x 2 5 Ghz e RAM 32GB 64 If you need to manage up to 200M words per year you can do it using 4TB of storage 12 CPU core and 64GB of RAM and placing the MySQL database on a separate machine easy to do with the MateCat config file For handling more than 200M words per year you will need to add a load balancer in front of the web servers and databases Databases will need a master master replica schema This will require an experience
22. as shown in the screenshot below For further information about collaborative projects please refer to the Splitting Jobs section 37 Learn connextion Point gt gt Learn connection point TRANSLATED Connection point The translations of these terms are listed under the Glossary tab which indicates in brackets the number of terms in the segment found in the glossary Each glossary suggestion also gives information about the source of the translation and the creation date If you hover over a suggested term a dustbin icon m appears on the right Click on it to remove the term from the glossary You can also add new terms to the glossary e Add source and target terms in the corresponding windows e Add comments if needed by clicking on the Comment button e Click on the button to add the term to the glossary Note If no glossary is added to the project you create your own new glossary by creating a new term and if no private TM key had been previously associated with the project a new private TM key will be generated automatically and added to the project 38 1 15 Working with Text and Tags Tag autocompletion When you need to input a tag into your translation enter the symbol lt and a list of the tags in the source text is displayed Select the one you need and click Enter to add it to your translation lt g id 410 ACT lt gt lt eid szo stCT Formatting features MateCat
23. ave MateCat 15 save the file as oauth_config ini Enable Apache access to the directory Finally ensure that Apache has write permissions by enabling the storage directory access to Apache default user group is www data and relaxing some permission sudo chmod g w R cattool storage sudo chown R www data cattool storage This is necessary to allow MateCat creating the storage subdirectory where uploaded files logs and temporary files are stored Analysis daemons write their logs here also That s all Now type http localhost in Chrome or Firefox and enjoy your fresh install 76
24. cret please visit Google Developers Console and follow these instructions 1 click on Create Project specify a project name a project ID and check agree with Google ToS checkbox it may take a little to create your project click on your newly created project select APIs amp auth on left sidebar scroll down the list to Google API and switch the status of ON go back to left sidebar and under APIs amp auth menu select Credentials click on Create new client ID button under APPLICATION TYPE select Web application option under AUTHORIZED JAVASCRIPT ORIGINS insert the domain MateCat will be accessed from 9 under REDIRECT URIs insert http lt domain gt oauth response where lt domain gt is the domain that you specified in the previous step SS RS Se Ze gt 10 click on Create client ID Take note of the Client ID and a Client secret you just obtained 11 go back to left sidebar and under APIs amp auth menu select Consent screen 12 under PRODUCT NAME choose a meaningful name for example MateCat 13 scroll down the page and click Save 14 Finally edit the file cattool inc oauth_config ini ssample replacing the default parameters with those obtained in the previous step 75 e OAUTH_CLIENT_ID with your client ID e OAUTH CLIENT SECRET with your client secret e OAUTH_CLIENT_APP_NAME with your custom app name or le
25. ctivate them in your Management panel or in the Management panel of the person who created the project 1 24 Splitting Jobs MateCat provides an easy to use split functionality to divide large jobs into smaller parts and assign them to multiple translators This is useful for large collaborative projects You can split a job from the Volume Analysis page After completion of the volume analysis you can select how many jobs you would like to create and click on the Split button In the following example we are going to create 4 jobs Splitin 4 g Jobs 2 Split zus TM 54 You will then be presented with a dialogue window where you can enter the approximate number of words for each job Split Job in 4 parts Approx words 2815 Approx words 2815 Approx words 2815 Approx words 2815 Total words 11 260 oF Splitting a job in 4 parts The word count is approximate until you click on the Check button When you click on the Check button MateCat checks each part and divides segments into an indicative number of words avoiding any overlap between segments 55 Split Job in 4 parts 2816 2856 2816 Words 2772 Total words 11 260 mar Splitting a job in 4 parts after checking the word count Note that the word count for each part has changed When you click on Confirm you will be presented with a detailed analysis of the split jobs and a Translate button for each part 56 mate 19 A
26. d LAMP and scalability engineer Getting started with fast setup MateCat ships as a full fledged self contained appliance you can get up and running in minutes We provide a virtual machine image that comes with MateCat preinstalled The image is compatible with VirtualBox software get VirtualBox here first https www virtualbox org wiki Downloads You can download the MateCat Virtual Machine image ova from the following URL http docs matecat com matecat 0 3 4 3 ubuntu 12 04 x86 ova 1 9 GB Once the image has been downloaded and after VirtualBox software has been installed double click on the image file to start VirtualBox s import wizard If you feel unsure about what to input in the various panels click your way through the wizard by pressing Next gt button the default parameters are good enough for an average machine Starting MateCat virtual machine Open VirtualBox and start MateCat virtual machine After some loading depending mostly upon the performance of your machine you should be presented with a desktop environment with a welcome message To start MateCat click on MateCat icon on the left bar in the upper left corner of the screen 65 We have included some files on the desktop to let you experiment with MateCat Important Notice Although there is no login request or screen lock in case the virtual environment prompts you with credentials input the virtual machine credentials are
27. d a glossary for your project If you upload a glossary MateCat also looks up single terms In the translation memory this function is performed at segment level whereas in the glossary it is performed at term level 1 11 Outsourcing with MateCat Once the project has been created you can decide translate it internally or to outsource the project If you need to outsource it all you have to do is save the job URL and send it to the translator s With this link the translator can access the MateCat job in his her browser and start translating If you need to split the project and send it to more than one translator you can refer to the Split ting Jobs section 1 12 Translation Editor User Interface Documents are translated in the Translation Editor window This is the translator s main interface You can access this page e By clicking on the Translate button on the Analysis page e directly from the corresponding previously generated provided job URL The job URL contains information about the job you are translating Below you will find an explanation of the different elements of the URL The user cannot upload the glossary by him herself yet We plan to develop such functionality in one of our next releases 26 pro matecat com translate Test en US it IT 43505 0d5d8d53c774 21694626 e matecat com Base URL for the MateCat Pro version e translate This indicates that you are in the translation edi
28. e one of the following options 19 e Click on the Create a new Private TM button In this way MateCat generates a new private TM Key for this project that can be also used for future projects This new TM will contain O segments and can be populated o with the segments that you translate in the project you are creating o with the segments that you translate in other projects provided that the private TM key is associated o with the segments of an existing TM in TMX format e Copy or type an existing private TM key in the box In this case the TM may o already be populated with segments from previous translations that will be given to you as suggestions during the translation The key will also be updated with the segments that you translate in the new project with which the key is associated o be empty and can be populated as if it were new Upload your translation memory in TMX format together with the file s to translate In this case o if you have already added a private TM key to the project it will be populated with the segments of the TMX that you uploaded o If no private TM key has been added to the project MateCat automatically generates a new one and the following message will be displayed TMX is one of the most common translation memory formats It is the main translation exchange format 20 Once the TMX has been uploaded you can leave the key automatically generated by Matecat replace it with a d
29. e opens a window as in the screenshot below Project name From To English US French v Multiple languages El Options Machine Translation Private TM key 7 U Disable TM Concordance and Glossary MyMemory All Pairs Drag and drop your file here You may also import your own translation memories TMX or 13 Here you can add and or select additional options to be added to the project you are creating For example choose the Machine Translation server add or create a private TM for your project or disable any suggestions from the TM MT and glossary For further details refer to the Translation Toolbox section 1 5 Machine Translation Servers With MateCat you can select a number of machine translation servers In MateCat the best option is to select MyMemory which uses a combination of Google Translate and Microsoft Translator to provide machine translation suggestions You can also disable machine translation by selecting NONE from the dropdown menu 1 6 Analysis Report During creation of the project when all files have been uploaded and all information has been correctly set on the MateCat home page the Analyze button will be displayed Click on the Analyze button to start the analysis The analysis page will open A progress bar shows you the progress on analyses of the files you uploaded for translation Once the analysis is completed the volume analysis page displays the Analysis report
30. e tags in the source text Select the one you need and click Enter to add it to your translation MateCat shows the missing or extra tag s marked in red 43 e Tag Order Mismatch d 22 gt Tipologia Servizi L3 lt e gt lt g id 23 gt lt e gt lt g id 24 Cooperazione lt g id 22 gt Type L3 Services lt g gt lt e id 24 gt 4 lt e gt lt g id 23 gt Application Applicativa g gt lt g id 25 gt 5 g gt Cooperation lt g gt Tag order mismatch 1 TRANSLATED Translation matches MateCat also displays a warning when tags are not in the same position as in the original segment Tags in the wrong order will be coloured in pink In the example above tag lt g id 24 gt in the target segment is not in the same position as in the original In order to fix the error you can gt click on the tag coloured in pink in the target segment and drag and drop it to the correct position in the phrase gt enter the symbol lt in the tag s correct position to display the list of the tags in the source text Select the one you need and click Enter to add it to your translation Then delete the tag in the wrong position gt copy and paste the tag from the source segment to the target and place it in the correct position Then delete the tag in the wrong position e Whitespaces mismatch Default user for MateCat virtual machine is lt g id 110 gt matecat lt a gt L utente Medefinito defla macchina vir
31. gt cs CZ ORIGINAL PREVIEW Once the upload is complete MateCat advises you that your TM has been correctly uploaded reminding you of the private TM key associated with it so that you can store it and use it again if needed 23 mate w test 47884 gt en GB gt cs CZ You can finally use and or update your private TM key with the translation of the project you are working on Note You can upload your own translation memory in any language combination This means that you can reuse the same private TM key for more projects in more than one language pair at once A private TM key can hold data in any language pair During translation MateCat recog nises the language pair of the current project and looks up in the corresponding language com bination 1 9 TM backup and updates Adding a private TM Key to your project means that the TM is automatically updated during translation if previously set MateCat stores your TMs for you so that you do not need to upload and download the translated segments each time you translate In this way you have a constant backup of your translation memory and you can use it again in the future by just storing the private TM key and associating it with a new project typing it in again if needed gt It is not possible to download the translated segment for a specific project yet We plan to devel op such functionality in one of our next releases 24 1 10 How to add a Glossar
32. i LJ Pashto J Persian Polish Portuguese Portuguese Brazil J Quebecois O Quechua J Romanian Russian Serbian Latin J Serbian Cyrillic In order to upload the file s for translation you can e directly drag and drop them or e browse for them by clicking on the Add files button _ Slovak Slovenian Spanish Spanish Latin America Swahili Swedish Swiss German Tagalog L Tamil J Telugu Thai J Turkish J Turkmen Ukrainian Vietnamese _ Welsh MateCat automatically checks the source language of your documents to make sure that it matches the one you selected Otherwise a warning message is displayed as in the screenshot below 12 Translate your files Matecat gives you more ma Project name From To Italian English Multiple languages amp Options A The source language you selected seems to be different from the source language in WhiteHouse doc sdixliff Please check WhiteHouse doc sdixliff 25 98 KB Different source language Ignore Drag and drop your file here or ECO x Clear all It also checks that the private TM key you associated with your project is indeed valid You can use the dustbin icon to delete a file from the list of files to translate or click on the Clear all button to delete all uploaded files from the list 1 4 Translation Memory and Machine Translation Clicking on the Options button on the MateCat home pag
33. ifferent one or leave the private TM Key box empty If no private TM key is indicated the segments in your TMX are saved in the generic public translation memory and can be accessed by all MateCat users Adding or Creating a Private TM for an Existing Project If you would like to add your own translation memory or create a private TM in an already created project you are working on because you are working on it in outsourcing or because you forgot to add it during the creation of the project you can add your personal TM directly in your Translation Editor window by clicking on the Add your personal TM button In this way you use it and update it privately without sharing with other users A window will be displayed as in the screenshot below Language Resources Add your personal TM Use this panel to add personal TMs that you want to use update privately and you don t gt cene want to share with others 21 You have the following options for adding your personal TM s e Add an already existing TM key e Click on the Create button to create a new TM key Once you have added the TM key in the box the Manage TM section in the window below will be activated Here you can e Check Uncheck the Show matches from TM checkbox to receive or not receive suggestions from the TM you are adding respectively e Check Uncheck the Add translations to TM checkbox to save or not save your translations in the TM you are adding respect
34. ime editing Percentage of words on which you spent too little time editing 48 Under the Editing details sections you can see all details per segment Secs Word Seconds spent per word in that segment Job ID MateCat job ID Segment ID ID of the segment You can click on it to open the segment in the Translation Editor page Words Number of words in the segment Suggestion source Source of the first suggestion Match percentage Match percentage of the first suggestion It is always 85 by default for Machine Translation suggestions Time to edit Time necessary to edit the segment PE Effort Post editing effort to edit the segment Segment Original source segment 49 Suggestion First MateCat suggestion Translation Final translation approved by the translator Diff View Differences between first suggestion and final approved translation highlighted with track changes The warning icon and orange borders indicate that you spent too much or too little time to edit the segment 1 23 Finalising a Project Once the translation is complete 100 on the progress bar the Preview button at the top of the page is replaced by the Download translation button By clicking on the Download Translation button you can download the translated text in the same format as the original file If the project contains more than one file all will be downloaded as compressed in a zip folder The text can be downloaded at any time during
35. ively e Click on Add segments from a TMX to upload your own TMs in TMX format into the private TM key that you are adding Just reading or also updating your TM depends on whether you have checked or not the Show matches from TM and the Add translations to TM checkboxes Show matches from TM corresponds to a read mode thus to receiving suggestions from the TM Add translations to TM corresponds to a write mode thus to saving your translations in the TM We have 4 cases Show matches from TM M Add translationsto TM Both checkboxes are checked Your TM key has both read and write mode You will both receive suggestions from the TM and save your 22 Show matches from TM U Add translations to TM Only the Show matches from TM checkbox is checked Your TM key is read mode only You will receive suggestions from the TM but you will not save your translations in the TM Show matches from TM M Addtranslationsto TM Only the Add translations to TM checkbox is checked Your TM key is write mode only You will not receive suggestions from the TM but you will save your translations in the TM Show matches from TM U Add translations to TM POLN EHECKBONES are uneneekeds TRE following error message will be displayed VAN Either read or write must be checked You must check at least one of them Click on the Add your TM button to start the upload The message below is displayed mate v test 47884 gt en GB
36. lies heavily on keyboard shortcuts for standard and advanced functionalities Getting to know the shortcuts below will help you be more productive when translating in MateCat Confirm translation CTRL Enter CTRL Enter click on Translated CMD Enter Confirm translation CTRL SHIFT Enter CTRL SHIFT Enter and go to next CMD SHIFT Enter untranslated segment click on T gt gt Go to next segment CTRL Down CTRL Down Return to previous CTRL Up CTRL Up segment Go to current CTRL Home CMD SHIFT up segment 61 Copy source to ALT CTRL i ALT CTRL i target Undo in segment CTRL z CTRL z available in active CMD z segment Redo in segment CTRL y CMD SHIFT z available in active segment Go to beginning of Home CMD left the line Go to end of the line End CMD right Move the cursor CTRL right ALT right word by word to the right Move the cursor CTRL left ALT left word by word to the left Open search if not CTRL f CTRL f yet opened CMD f Perform ALT CTRL c ALT CTRL c Concordance search 62 on word s selected in the source or target segment Use Translation Suggestions first second third suggestion Add a new line in the target segment Add a non breaking Space CTRL 1 2 3 SHIFT Enter CTRL Shift Space ALT CMD c CTRL 1 2 3 SHIFT Enter CTRL Shift Space 63 Installing an open source version of MateCat This guide is me
37. llowing modules enabled htaccess rewrite filter deflate headers O O O O e PHP gt 5 2 with following extensions enabled php5 mysql libapache2 mod php5 php5 curl php5 memcache not mandatory but recommended O O O O php5 json e MySQL gt 5 1 e git gt 1 5 e screen utility This guide will assume you are on a Debian based Linux distribution Debian or Ubuntu If your server already meets these dependencies please jump straight to Configuring components section Otherwise the section that follows Configuring the environment from scratch will guide you to a ready to work environment 67 Configuring the environment from scratch The setup requires root access privileges Install Apache sudo apt get install apache2 Enable Additional Modules for Apache Apache web server needs to be fine tuned for MateCat to work properly Switch to Apache directory with cd etc apache2 and enter these commands to enable required Apache submodules sudo a2enmod rewrite filter deflate headers expires sudo apache2ctl restart Last command is mandatory for changes to take effect If you see upon issuing sudo apache2ctl restart the following warning Could not reliably determine the server s fully qualified domain name using 127 0 1 1 for ServerName do not worry it s not important Install MySQL sudo apt get install mysql server mysal client The installation process will prompt a few times for a new root passwo
38. ments of that job have been translated and marked as translated The progress bar at the bottom of the screen should be blue and the To do count should be zero The progress bar the To do count and the payable words count only refer to the current job You can check the status and progress of each job from your own Management Panel Once all jobs are 100 complete you can click on any of the links and click on the Download translation button In this way you will download the whole translated file 1 25 Resources for LSPs MateCat can help LSPs Language Service Providers to manage projects easily and perform all checks not only after delivery by the translator but also during the translation job itself The main tools and functions available for Project Managers are the Management Panel the Editing log and the QA messages in the Translation Editor window Through the Management Panel the Project Manager can easily check the status of all translation jobs in real time Here he she has a list of all active projects in chronological order and the progress bar for each job 58 Machine Translation MyMemory All Pairs Create Date Job Private TM Key Payable Words Progress Actions September 23 Tuesday 47115 English US gt French b186dacde9dc66377dcl read E o 12 15 http pro matecat com translate 47115 c77642c52c11 write gt 554 Payable words ii E FF Machine Translation
39. metadata so each segment stored in the translation memory contains the following information not visible in the translation memory contents by the users e the source segment e the corresponding translation e the segment preceding the segment itself Click on the Translate button for each language pair to open the Translation Editor window and start translating If you need to outsource it for translation to someone else you should just send the job URL to your external resource The URL is all you need to start translating 1 7 Public Translation Memory and Translation Memory Key TM Key When translating your translations are saved as bilingual sentences in a so called translation memory TM a sort of database containing bilingual segments sentences sets of words or single words already translated in one or more language pairs which can be used during the translation of the same project or future projects So when translating if you find a segment that is identical or similar to another one that has already been translated the translation memory suggests the wording of the already translated segment so that you can use it partially or entirely for translation of the new segment 18 In MateCat you can save and store your translations e in a generic public translation memory which can be accessed via API by all MateCat users e in a new or already existing private TM assigned to one or more projects or to
40. nslated segments MateCat calculates how much time is needed to complete the translation if you are currently working on the translation After one hour of inactivity this information is no longer available Link to access your own Management Panel 32 Link to access the Editing Log page a statistical page about the current project e g percentage of MT matches percentage of TM matches average post editing efforts etc Link to access the Manual Information about the account you are logged Anonymous login in with Click on login to sign in using Google Source text and target text are displayed side by side Click on any segment in the target column to open it for translation mate w test_demo2 11666 gt en GB gt it IT ORIGINAL PREVIEW Q demo2 doc English en GB gt Italian it IT Payable Words 188 TRANSLATED Find A Mediator Trovare un mediatore mediator mediatore Source anonymous 2013 08 12 Ey Find Similar Mediations Trova mediazioni simili Source Anonymous 2007 08 21 sl 595895 33 What if need to stop translating and switch off my computer In MateCat your translation is automatically saved in the document when you edit the segment and in the translation memory if any when you click on the Translated or T gt gt buttons If you need to stop translating and switch off your computer all you need to do is open the job URL again in your browser
41. ojecto WR Mabe Cae een nee 51 MIDI DER Panel ee 51 DR en es ere es ee eee 61 OO HOTEL ee 61 Installing an open source version of MAC manne de 64 Bora A EN A E A PEA E AE T T sears 64 EKO E E e E E srt een te 64 a E WIE e A EE A are 65 Advanced manual setup on different alone 66 COURS thecnvironment rom serate Denen seine 68 CORE ELISE CET pPO n ATS aoi 69 SE retry ere ee en tera 70 CCS a E E E E E ou 71 PSS wal EE e N dt 72 Create and c stomize MateCat FOR IT ION een 72 Solera ical gem ASS OS nn 23 CORHEUPC Tee Ice OSEO amarante este ter eer eer eres 73 Turning on the an AUS LME PE CNN eee ee reer ee eee ee eee eee eee 74 Translating other formats than XLIFF go DEN ern EoD GOSSES A aE Eii Enable Apache decess to SO SO nu Introducing MateCat MateCat is an open source enterprise level web based translation software which closely integrates machine translation and human translation Using MateCat you obtain between 10 and 20 more matches for your translations thanks to the largest public translation memory in the world and the best machine translation currently in use How MateCat Calculates Payable Words MateCat counts words by using a combination of advanced TM technology MyMemory and application of a reduction in weighting for machine translation suggestions This allows MateCat to give you more matches than any other translation tool According to industry standards words or phrases with a 100 Translation Memory ma
42. preview pane Pour voir un article en 3D s lectionnez le et appuyez sur la lt g id 185 gt Vue 3D lt g gt bouton ci dessous le panneau de pr visualisation Pour voir un article en 3D s lectionnez le et appuyez sur le bouton lt g id 185 gt 3D View lt g gt sous le panneau de pr visualisation Pour voir un article en 3D s lectionnez le et appuyez sur lt lt He 8 4 bette e edessets le bouton lt g id 185 gt 3D View lt g gt sous le panneau de pr visualisation Segment ID Suggestion source Match percentage Time to edit PE Effort 21799804 i Machine Translation 85 37m 56s 0 e under the Summary section you can find statistical information about the entire project 47 Words Avg Secs per Word of MT of TM 877 6 1s 100 0 Words Avg Secs per Word of MT of TM Total Time to edit Avg PEE of words in too SLOW edits of words in too FAST edits of words In too FAST edits of words In too Total Time to edit SLOW edits Avg PEE 01h 25m 24s 38 4 0 Number of translated words Average number of seconds you needed to translate each word Percentage of Machine Translation suggestions of translation Percentage memory suggestions Total time necessary to complete the translation so far Average post editing effort as a percentage This indicates your efforts in translation updating machine Suggestions Percentage of words on which you spent too much t
43. ranslated segments The Preview button is replaced by the Download translation button once the translation is complete 100 on the progress bar 28 QA module No errors reported QA module 1 error message reported Click on the icon to go to the segment with the error and fix it Search tool Perform a search in the source or target text If necessary you can replace the term you searched for with another one Editor window Bitte geben Sie ein gultiges Passwort ein Voer alstublieft een geldig wachtwoord in TRANSLATED Bitte geben Sie ein g ltiges Passwort ein Voer alstublieft een geldig wachtwoord in Source anonymous 2014 10 03 Sur Bitte geben Sie ein g ltiges Passwort ein Vul een geldig wachtwoord Bitte geben Sie das Passwort erneut ein Voer het wachtwoord opnieuw in Source MatteoT 0000 00 00 amp Add your personal TM 29 TRANSLATED Translation matches Concordance Click to close the segment in draft status without saving it in your TM Copy source to target button Click or use the shortcut ALT CTRL i to copy the source text to the target box Translated and go to next untranslated button Click or use the shortcut CTRL SHIFT Enter to confirm your translation of the current segment and to move to the next untranslated segment Translated button Click or use the shortcut CTRL Enter to confirm your translation and save it in the tran
44. rd access for MySQL It s fine leaving it blank otherwise please ensure you type the same every time You can test the reachability of the database by issuing at a terminal 68 mysql u root p If you specified a password during MySQL setup type it when prompted else just hit Return If everything went fine you should see the greeting message and the shell prompt mysql gt Install PHP5 core and additional packages sudo apt get install php5 php5 mysal libapache2 mod php5 php5 curl php5 memcache php5 json Install screen utility sudo apt get install screen Install Memcached Server optional For a boost of performance during analysis you can install Memcached server sudo apt get install memcached Configuring components Tune PHP configuration Open PHP configuration file for Apache by typing sudo gedit etc php5 apache2 php ini find and set the following directives to these values 69 memory_limit 1024M post_max_size 200M upload max filesize 200M short_open_tag On As usual restart Apache for changes to take effect sudo apache2ctl restart Do the above to the command line configuration too for the analysis daemons sudo gedit etc php5 cli php ini and additionally disable the disable functions directive Installing MateCat This section assumes you ll install MateCat under the home of user matecat home matecat Install git and clone the repository If you already have GI
45. rted file formats Translation Process The translation process is divided into the following phases 1 Creating a project from the MateCat home page http www matecat com you can select the source and target language s and add the file s to translate Then you can choose one of the following options O use a machine translation server of your choice This option allows you to receive machine translation suggestions for each segment from the server you choose You can disable this option by selecting NONE from the dropdown menu o associate an existing or new private TM By associating a private TM you will be able to store all the translated segments in this private translation memory and add new glossary items if necessary In this way you will be able use this private TM for future projects and take advantage of already translated segments o do without any private TM In this way you will receive suggestions and store your translation in a public TM exclusively for MateCat users You can also disable this option by checking the Disable TM Concordance and Glossary checkbox In this way the translation will not be saved in any TM and you will receive no matches or suggestions during your translation If you choose to receive suggestions from both the MT and the TM you can receive from 10 to 20 more matches for all your translations This can increase your productivity and enable you to work more quickly
46. se is blue 3 My house is red Segments 1 and 2 are identical segments so they are counted as 4 repetitions Segment 3 is counted as an internal match Internal Matches Internal matches are similar segments found in the document you are translating For example imagine that we find the following segments in our translation 1 My house is blue 2 My house is red MateCat recognises that segment 2 is similar to segment 1 3 words out of 4 are identical so the following would occur during translation You translate segment 1 The translation memory is updated with this translation You open segment 2 for translation gt e WN e A search is performed in the TM for segment 2 and a 75 fuzzy match is found MateCat therefore counts four new words for segment 1 but because a 75 fuzzy match has been found in the TM the four words in segment 2 are counted as Internal Matches in terms of weighted words these are counted as 2 4 or 60 of 4 Partial TM In this case similarity between the document to be translated and any correspondences found in the translation memory fuzzy matches are calculated For example imagine that we have following segments in an EN gt FR translation 1 My house is blue 16 2 My house is red and that the TM contains this Source Target My house is blue Ma maison est bleue For segment 1 My house is blue there will be a 100 match in the translation memory For segment 2 My hou
47. se is red there will be a 75 fuzzy match segment 2 and the segment found in the translation memory only differ in terms of the colour of the house blue red bleue rouge so 1 word out of 4 100 TM This is a 100 match between a segment in the source language found in the document to translate and an identical sentence found in the source language in the translation memory 100 TM in context This is more than a 100 match If you have a 100 context match the corresponding label is 100 CM this means that both of the following 2 conditions exist e the segment in the document has a 100 match in the translation memory e the segment in the document and the segment in the translation memory must both be preceded by the same segment For example if you have to translate the following segments in the same order 1 My house is blue 2 My house is red 17 and you have a 100 match in the translation memory for segment 2 you will actually receive a 100 CM if segment 2 is also preceded by segment 1 in the translation memory This means that you can be certain that the 100 match is correct according to the context of the document you are translating Actually this does not mean that in the list of segments in the translation memory the segment in the translation memory is indeed preceded by the same segment as the one in the document What it means is that context information is stored in the translation memory as
48. slation memory Translation matches tab This tab shows the user the TM matches and or MT suggestions for the current segment Concordance tab Open this tab or use the shortcut ALT CTRL c to search the translation memory both public and private if any for a particular word word sequence or phrase 30 Glossary tab Open this tab to check sise A suggestions from a previous glossary included in the private TM key which is associated with the project or to add new terms to the glossary Click to add your personal TM to the ongoing 1 14 Bottom bar O 42 Payabe Words 459 To do 264 Speed 406 Words h Completed in Oh 39m Manage Editing Log Docs Anonymous login The progress bar indicates the real time status Be nn Er your translation Number of payable weighted words for the Payable Words 453 entire job Clicking on Payable Words button will take you to the Volume Analysis page of the project 31 To do 264 Speed 406 Words h Completed in Oh 39m Number of words left to translate for the entire job The estimated speed of your translating Based on the average time spent on the last 10 translated segments MateCat calculates the hourly turnaround for the job if you are currently working on the translation After one hour of inactivity this information is no longer available The estimated time left to complete the translation Based on the time spent on the last 10 tra
49. tch are given a weighting of 30 and words or phrases with a partial TM match are given a weighting of 60 Here is an example to calculate weighted words No TM match 100 Lower fuzzy ranges 50 and 70 Higher fuzzy ranges 40 100 match 30 Repetition same segment repeated in the document 30 Context match more than 100 match because of same 0 context information in the TM MateCat counts matches according to these standards t This is an example Each CAT tool counts words differently and each LSP calculates weighted words differently For Machine Translation MateCat decides which reduction in weighting to apply on the basis of the extent to which the MT has been useful for the past 1 million words for each language combination MateCat assumes that the less the machine translation suggestion is edited by translators the more useful it is We decided to split the benefits of this technology between the language service provider and the translator So if a translator saves 20 of his her time the word count is reduced by 10 only How MateCat counts payable words in a project is indicated in the volume analysis report generated during creation of the project itself Volume Analysis Page The volume analysis page which opens during the creation of a project in MateCat shows you a global report of the volume to be translated Standard weighted words The volume as calculated by industry standard C
50. th many language combinations and supports 56 file formats MateCat can be used with Firefox but some of the most advanced features are not available For the best experience with MateCat we suggest using the free Google Chrome browser Here is the list of supported languages and file formats Albanian Arabic Armenian Basque Bengali Bielarus _ Bosnian O Breton O Bulgarian L Catalan J Cebuano O Chinese Simplified L Chinese Traditional O Croatian O Czech J Danish O Dutch O English O English US O Estonian Faroese C Finnish LJ Flemish J French L Galician O Georgian O German Greek O Gujarati O Hebrew LJ Hindi Hungarian icelandic Indonesian Irish Gaelic Italian Japanese Kazakh Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Maori _ Mongolian Supported languages LJ Nepali Norwegian Bokmal O Norwegian Nynorsk C Pakistani L Pashto L Persian L Polish Portuguese Portuguese Brazil O Quebecois LJ Quechua L Romanian O Russian Serbian Latin O Serbian Cyrillic O Slovak O Slovenian C Spanish Spanish Latin America O Swahili L Swedish O Swiss German O Tagalog O Tamil O Telugu O Thai O Turkish O Turkmen Ukrainian Vietnamese O Welsh Supported file formats Web Interchange Formats DesktopPublishing Localization htm xliff mif properties html sdlxliff inx rc xhtml tmx xml ttx itd xif Suppo
51. tion jobs divided per language combination and MateCat job ID under Job column you can access the Translation Editor window of each job by clicking on the corresponding job URL Private TM Key if any blank column if not present Payable words per job under Payable Words column Progress bar of each translation job under Progress column Series of buttons that enable you to perform a number of tasks Change job password This modifies the password of the job Cancel job project This deletes the job project and disables the URL Archive Job project This prevents any changes from being applied to the job project However the URL will still work and is accessible in read only mode Resume project Unarchive project By default the management panel will show your active projects only in chronological order You can filter and see the cancelled and archived projects by clicking on the Filter button or on Showing active projects at the top of the page 53 The following search window will be displayed PROJECT NAME SOURCE Y TARGET STATUS Active v FILTER You can filter your search by e Project name e Source or target language or both e Status Active Archived or Cancelled Click on the FILTER button to apply your criteria to the search For reasons of privacy your projects are automatically archived after 30 days of inactivity You will still be able to rea
52. tor page e Test The name of the project you are translating e en US it IT The language pair of your translation e 43505 0d5d8d53c774 The job ID 43505 followed by the unique job password in this case Od5d8d53c774 e 21694626 The unique identifier of the segment you are translating This number changes every time you open a new segment The Translation Editor User Interface contains only one environment with all the information necessary for the translator to work on the job mate vw test_demo2 11666 gt en GB gt it IT demo2 doc English en GB gt Italian it IT Payable Words 188 595894 Find A Mediator Trovare un mediatore TRANSLATED Find A Mediator Trovare un mediatore mediator mediatore Find Similar Mediations Trova mediazioni simili Source Anonymous 2007 08 21 367 Translation editor The interface contains the following bars and information 27 1 13 Top bar mate v 11548093 40742 gt de DE gt fr FR Click on the logo to go to the homepage of the MateCat tool and create a new project The name of the job and language pair v 11548093 40742 gt de DE gt fr FR combination Click on the arrow to see the list of the files and navigate through them Click to download the original file s Click to download a preview of the translated file s The preview contains your translation and machine translation for the remaining unt
53. translatable parts We plan to develop such functionality in one of our next releases 1 16 Confirming a Segment Once your translation has been entered or the pre translated segment edited click on the Translated button to confirm your translation and move to the next segment Alternatively you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Enter If you want to confirm the translation of the current segment and go to the next untranslated segment click on the T gt gt button or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL SHIFT Enter The segment status bar colour will change from white to blue In this way you save the segment and update the translation memory If you do not click on the Translated button and move manually on to the next or press CTRL Down or to the previous or press CTRL Up segment your translation will be saved in the file but the translation memory will not be updated The bar to the right of each segment indicates its status using colours Click on it to display the following options and to set change the status of a segment 40 1 DRAFT TRANSLATED fl APPROVED i REJECTED j Status dialogue 1 17 Autopropagation When you approve a segment during translation MateCat automatically populates your translation with all segments having the same source within the same project They will be labelled as AUTOPROPAGATED as shown in the screenshot below Details Implications Dettagli e implicazioni TRANSLATED Tr
54. translation by clicking on the Preview button The portions of text not yet translated will be replaced by a machine translation 50 Managing Projects with MateCat Management Panel When you create a project you have the option of adding the project to your Management Panel by logging in with your Google account before creating it This panel shows you the list of all projects created using your Google account and allows you to check the progress and status of your projects or recover them if needed To log in with your Google account click on the Login button at the bottom of the MateCat home page and sign in using your Google account Note remember to always log in before creating a project if you want to add it to your Man agement Panel If you create a project without logging in with your Google account the job URL of the project will not be saved automatically so please remember to save it manually in a safe place in order to be able to recover it easily if needed To access the Management panel you can e Go to http www matecat com manage 1 or e Click on Manage at the bottom of the MateCat home page All relevant information is available for each project as shown in the screenshot below 51 mate Showing projects M 11605615 36200 2 549 Payable words EI EB W Machine Translation MyMemory All Pairs Create Date Job Private TM Key Payable Words Progress Actions 2 September 05 Friday 4374
55. tuale su cui installato MateCat pass matecat with root privileges lt g id 110 gt matecat lt a gt password matecat con privilegi di root M f i f A More fewer whitespaces found T TRANSLATED next to the tags 2 Translation matches 44 MateCat warns the user when more or fewer spaces are found in the target segment next to tags In the image above there are two extra whitespaces indicated by the red arrows To fix the error delete the extra spaces between the tags and the word e Translation conflicts Classificazione del documento Document classification TRANSLATED A Translation conflicts 1 Classificazione del documento Beecument lt Classification of document MateCat warns the user when two or more different translations are inserted for the same source segment in the same project MateCat uses track changes to highlight the differences To fix this error choose one of the suggested matches or click on the View button to check and correct the translations 1 21 Spell checking MateCat uses your browser s spell checker To enable the Google Chrome spell checker for your target language follow these steps 1 Enter the following string in the Google Chrome address bar chrome settings languages 2 Click on Add and add your target language 3 Select Enable spell checking in the dialogue window that opens 45 Languages Add languages and drag to
56. will see the suggestions ranked from the highest percentage of matching to the lowest The MT suggestions correspond to an 85 match by default If there are no higher percentages of matching you will see the MT as the first suggestion To select and enter one of the suggestions into the translation input field you can e Use the shortcut ALT CTRL n for Windows or ALT CMD n for Mac OS X where n could be 1 2 or 3 depending on whether you would like to add respectively the first second or third suggestion e double click on the match you would like to select rY If you hover over a TM match a dustbin icon M appears on the right Click on it to remove the TM match from the translation memory Note click on the dustbin icon only if you would like to delete the match from the translation memory because the target text is not the correct translation of the source text Do not delete it if you think it is not the correct suggestion for the segment you are translating If you would like to copy the source segment to the target input area click on the arrow between the source and target segment or press ALT CTRL I How to Use Glossary Terms in Your Translated Segment The Glossary tab provides suggestions from the glossary previously included in the private TM key which is associated with the project Every time you encounter this term in the text it is displayed by the glossary and the term in the segments underlined
57. y A glossary is a bilingual or multilingual database containing the translation of terms in a special subject field or area of usage It is usually in Excel or CSV format and can help translators with the translations of specific terms that can be translated in several ways depending on the subject matter For example imagine that we have to translate a file containing the following phrase from English to French My house is red In order to translate the file containing this phrase we created a project for translating from English to French and associated a private TM key and an EN gt FR glossary In the glossary we have the following term and its translation House Maison Opening the phrase for translation we have no suggestions from our translation memory but we have the translation of house in our glossary In this case MateCat suggests how to translate the term house In MateCat the glossary is included in the private TM key associated with the project If no private TM key is associated yet a new one will be created once you insert the first glossary term Note please refer to the section How to Use Glossary Terms in Your Translated Segment to know how to add a glossary term while translating Terms are words or set of words of a particular kind of language or branch of study 25 CSV is the only supported glossary format You just have to upload it to your private TM key Why ad

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