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Transit NXT translation memories w/ different number of source/target segments
Thread poster: Gary Hess
Gary Hess
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Mar 16, 2023

I am trying to create a custom QA tool for my own use and was analyzing some .DEU and .ENG files. Sometimes there is a mismatch between the source and target files, e.g. source file has 30 segments and target file has 31 segments. I would assume that some other translator during the translation process split 1 segment into 2 segments (that would explain the discrepancy).

I have a technical question: How does Transit NXT know which segments belong to one another? I have looked at the... See more
I am trying to create a custom QA tool for my own use and was analyzing some .DEU and .ENG files. Sometimes there is a mismatch between the source and target files, e.g. source file has 30 segments and target file has 31 segments. I would assume that some other translator during the translation process split 1 segment into 2 segments (that would explain the discrepancy).

I have a technical question: How does Transit NXT know which segments belong to one another? I have looked at the XML quite a bit, but I can't figure it out yet.

BTW: I loaded a pair of mismatched .DEU and .ENG files into XBench, but Xbench doesn't correctly align the mismatched segments either.

Thanks,
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wotswot
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Misaligned language pairs Mar 16, 2023

What I do is open the two files in two separate windows of a powerful text editor (like Notepad ++), place them side by side then find and delete the offending segment.
Segment lines begin with where n is a number, and end with .
 
wotswot
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Follow-up to my previous message Mar 16, 2023

Segment lines begin with Seg SegID=n (where n is the segment's number) and end with /Seg

[Edited at 2023-03-16 16:19 GMT]
 
Gerald Dennett
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Re-align Mar 16, 2023

You need to perform an alignment on the offending pair of files. Otherwise the pair will be ignored in any TM.
Gerald
 
Gary Hess
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How to do this automatically? Mar 16, 2023

I should have said that I want to write a program to recognize and interpret the mismatch automatically. I can edit the file manually, but there must be something inside the XML that points to the correct alignment. I want to figure out how Transit NXT manages this misalignment.
 
Hans Lenting
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Reverse engineering Mar 17, 2023

Gary Hess wrote:

I should have said that I want to write a program to recognize and interpret the mismatch automatically. I can edit the file manually, but there must be something inside the XML that points to the correct alignment. I want to figure out how Transit NXT manages this misalignment.


Did you already create a project with one segment and split this segment, to see what happens in the xml? Silly question perhaps, since you seem to know how to write code...
 
Gary Hess
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Maybe it's really an error... Mar 17, 2023

I tried your idea on a project (joining and splitting some segments to look at the results). The number of segments is actually never mismatched after these steps. So maybe the files in question do indeed have an error.

Thanks for all the suggestions!
 


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