How to Add Translation Resources to a Project

When you create a project, you can add or remove translation resources from the project on the Translation Memory and Automated Translation page and the Termbases page of the New Project wizard.

Adding or Creating Translation Memories

Select the translation memories to be applied to project files during project creation on the Translation Memory and Automated Translation page of the New Project wizard. You can add more than one translation memory for each target language and these can be file-based, server-based or a mixture of both.

1. Select All Language Pairs > Translation Memory and Automated Translation from the navigation tree.

2. Select the required translation memories:

• If you want to use a translation memory stored locally in a file, click Add and select File-based Translation Memory from the drop-down list.

• If you want to use a translation memory stored on a server, click Add and select Server-based Translation Memory from the drop-down list. Select a translation memory from the Select Server-based Translation Memory dialog box.

• If you want to use a translation memory with languages that differ from the ones in your project, use the AnyTM options, either for local or server based TMs. Find out more about Working with Language Variants.

• If you want to use a WorldServer translation memory stored on a server, click Add and select SDL WorldServer Translation Memory from the drop-down list. Select a translation memory or translation memory group from the Select WorldServer Translation Provider dialog box.

3. To create a new translation memory to use with this project:

• If you want to create a new translation memory that is stored locally in a file for this project, click Create and select New File-based Translation Memory from the drop-down list. Create a translation memory in the New Translation Memory wizard.

• If you want to create a new translation memory on the server for this project, click Create and select New Server-based Translation Memory from the drop-down list. Create a new translation memory in the new  Server-based Translation Memory wizard.

4. You can now any specify translation memory settings such as, filters, search settings and assigned values.

Adding Automated Translation Servers

Select the automated translation servers that you want to use for this project on the Translation Memory and Automated Translation page of the New Project wizard.

1. Select All Language Pairs > Translation Memory and Automated Translation from the navigation tree.

2. Click Add and select one of the following from the drop-down list:

• SDL BeGlobal Enterprise to connect to an SDL BeGlobal automated translation server. Use the SW Enterprise Translation Server option if your company has purchased an installation of Language Weaver Enterprise Translation Server and installed it on a server. Use the BeGlobal Online option if you or your company has purchased the BeGlobal hosted services (Software as a Service). This requires a user and API key for authentication.

• SDL Language Cloud to connect to the machine translation engines that you subscribed to from your SDL Language Cloud account. The SDL Language Cloud MT engines are trained using domain-specific content to generate translation results that typically require less post-editing.

• Google Translate to connect to the Google Translate automated translation server. This is now a paid for service that requires an API key. The API key you enter here will update all other projects that use Google Translate. See About Google Translate for more information.

Adding or Generating AutoSuggest Dictionaries

Select the AutoSuggest Dictionaries for this project on the Translation Memory and Automated Translation page of the New Project wizard. AutoSuggest dictionaries are bilingual and can only be defined under the individual language pair settings.

1. Select [Source Language Name - Target Language Name ] > AutoSuggest Dictionaries from the navigation tree. The AutoSuggest Dictionary settings are displayed on the right.

2. If you want to add an existing AutoSuggest dictionary:

• Click Add. The Open AutoSuggest Dictionary dialog box is displayed.

• Browse to the location of the of the AutoSuggest dictionary file (*.bpm) and select the file and click Open.

3. If you want to generate a new AutoSuggest dictionary:

• Click Generate. The New AutoSuggest Dictionary wizard is displayed.

• Complete the pages of the New AutoSuggest Dictionary wizard and click Close. The AutoSuggest dictionary is added to the project.

Adding Termbases

Select the MultiTerm termbases that you want to add to this project on the Termbases page of the New Project wizard. Termbases on this page are ordered by priority (highest priority being the first termbase in the list). The termbase priority is used to determine the order that termbase suggestions are made.

1. Click Add. The Select Termbases dialog box is displayed.

2. To select a termbase, do one of the following:

• If you want to use a termbase stored locally in a file, click Browse and select a local termbase.

• If you want to use a remote termbase stored on a server, click Log in to connect to the MultiTerm Server. The list of termbases on the server is displayed in the Select Termbases dialog box. Select the check box next to the termbase name that you want add to the project.

3. Click OK to close the Select Termbases dialog box and to add the termbases to the project.

4. Continue selecting termbases until the list is complete. Any termbases you have added appear in the Termbases box and the Enabled option is selected for the termbase. When this option is selected, the termbase is automatically searched during translation when a segment becomes the active segment. For more information, see Terminology Recognition.

5. Select if you want to apply any existing filters to the termbase. This filter restricts the results that SDL MultiTerm displays when you search a termbase during translation. For example, you can use a filter when searching a termbase to show only those entries that were created or modified after a certain date.

6. To set a termbase as the default, select the termbase and click the Set Default button. The termbase is set as the default termbase and is moved to the top of the list of termbases. This termbase determines the languages languages that are used. New termbase entries added during translation in the Editor view are added to the default termbase.

7. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the priorities of the termbases.

8. Make sure the appropriate language for each termbase is set in the Languages pane for each project language. Each language must be mapped to a language in the termbase.