Use the Translation Memory and Automated Translation > Search settings to specify the settings for translation memory lookup and concordance searching.
These settings appear in multiple dialog boxes in SDL Trados Studio. Click here for more information about finding the appropriate dialog box.
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Translation: These options affect translation memory lookups. |
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Minimum match value |
This is the degree of match that must exist
between a source document segment and a translation memory segment
in order for the segment translation to be offered as a match.
The default is 70%, but you can set a value between 30% and 100%.
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Maximum number of hits |
This is the maximum number of translation memory matches that will be returned from a lookup. For example, if this limit is set at five, only the best five matches are displayed for consideration. The default is 5, but you can set a value between 1 and 50. |
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Search for fuzzy matches even if exact matches found |
Select this box if you want to display fuzzy matches as well as exact matches. |
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Search both project and main translation memories |
If you select this option, a lookup is performed in both the
main translation memory (if available) as well as the project
translation memory. This ensures that any new content that has
been added to the main translation memory (TM) or content that
was not relevant at the time when the project TM was created,
is still available for use during translation.
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Look up segments in MT even if a TM match has been found |
By default, Studio resorts to machine translation engines only if your selected translation memories do not generate any results. This saves costs on your machine translation subscriptions. However, you can enable this option if you want to receive both translation memories and machine translation results instead. This means that for each segment, Studio displays the best match found in your TMs, then searches further for additional matches in all your selected MT providers.
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Concordance: These values are applied to Concordance searches. |
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Minimum match value |
This is the degree of match that must exist between the search text you have selected and the matching text fragment in a translation memory segment in order for the translation to be offered as a match. The default is 70%, but you can set a value between 30% and 100%. |
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Maximum number of hits |
This is the maximum number of matches that will be returned from a concordance search. For example, if this limit is set at five, only the best five matches are displayed for consideration. The default is 30, but you can set a value between 1 and 99. |
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Search Options: This specifies where Studio searches for TM matches and how it sorts the results. |
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Show most recent translations first |
When this option is enabled, Studio sorts the results of your concordance and TM searches by most relevant new entries. This means that after sorting the TM results by percentage match value, Studio then displays these results starting with the latest translation unit edited or added to the TM. Disable this option to sort the TM results by most relevant oldest entries instead. |
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Show best matches from all providers |
Choose this option to the search through all translation sources (translation memories and automated translation servers) for the best matches. |
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Only show matches from first translation source in list that returns matches |
Choose this option to stop the search at the first translation source (translation memories and automated translation servers) that returns matches. |
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