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Virtual memoQ Day 2013

May 30, 2013



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Introduction to memoQ

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Schedule:This session ended at 09:10
Description:

memoQ is the world’s most advanced and powerful translation environment for translation and localization. Join us for this session to get a short introduction to its power features & concepts that can make your life -- as a translator -- easier.

Special file filters, on-the-fly alignment, version control, productivity boosters such as Muses, AutoPick etc., interoperability with other translated environments are just a few of the many topics we will discuss during the day.

Language(s):English
Speakers:Istvan Lengyel
István is the CEO of Kilgray, and thinks that there is nothing more important than channeling the customers’ business challenges to development and coming up with innovative yet easy-to-use solutions. He loves to work with customers who can articulate what they are looking for and believes that the best way of learning is through interaction.

István has a degree in economics, a postgraduate degree in translation and interpreting, and a PhD in translation studies. István also translated several books on business and IT into Hungarian and also designed a translation workflow system prior to joining Kilgray. He is a great fan of problem-solving expert selling.

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Discussion for Virtual memoQ Day 2013 session (2013): Introduction to memoQ
Mirko Mainardi
Mirko Mainardi  Identity Verified
Italija
Local time: 16:36
English to Italian
LiveDocs May 30, 2013

Unless I'm missing something, alignment through LiveDocs didn't seem so different from alignment with other tools (say, for instance, the old s42align from SDLX) to me, after all, and in all the files I've aligned so far with it, I still needed to go through each one manually after alignment, since several segments were not matched correctly (or not matched at all) or were joined together when they shouldn't have.

I guess this is unavoidable, all things considered, but saying that you... See more
Unless I'm missing something, alignment through LiveDocs didn't seem so different from alignment with other tools (say, for instance, the old s42align from SDLX) to me, after all, and in all the files I've aligned so far with it, I still needed to go through each one manually after alignment, since several segments were not matched correctly (or not matched at all) or were joined together when they shouldn't have.

I guess this is unavoidable, all things considered, but saying that you don't have to worry about alignment at all, since MemoQ does it all automatically (without fail), seemed a little 'far fetched'' to me... (unless things have dramatically improved with the upcoming MQ 2013, of course) ▲ Collapse
 
István Lengyel
István Lengyel
Mađarska
Local time: 16:36
English to Hungarian
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It's not the alignment that's perfect - it's the workflow that does not fail May 30, 2013

Hi Mirko,

memoQ's aligner is good but not perfect, but the big thing about LiveDocs is that it's not a TM. Traditionally a TM is built from the alignment, and you align everything, you go through all segments. Now this is what you should not do with memoQ. Just get the two files into a LiveDocs corpus, and when you see a match where the source does not correspond to the target, right click on the match, select Show document, and then fix the alignment on the spot. Also, make sure you ... See more
Hi Mirko,

memoQ's aligner is good but not perfect, but the big thing about LiveDocs is that it's not a TM. Traditionally a TM is built from the alignment, and you align everything, you go through all segments. Now this is what you should not do with memoQ. Just get the two files into a LiveDocs corpus, and when you see a match where the source does not correspond to the target, right click on the match, select Show document, and then fix the alignment on the spot. Also, make sure you realign after you have fixed a few links, because that can improve the alignment dramatically (it does not override human decisions).

So just make the adjustments as issues come, and don't worry about the rest. There is no need to pre-align anything - that, we believe, is a waste of time unless you are translating a document that's almost identical to a previous one (you can use Statistics to quantify the overlap between the alignment source and the translatable source).

István ▲ Collapse
 

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