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Owen Witesman Local time: 18:01 Finnish to English + ...
Oct 3, 2023
Does Trados (or a plugin) have a feature that can help to find inconsistent spellings of individual words? For example, imagine that a word appears 250 times in a text spelled one way and then 2 times spelled another way. Obviously the 2 times are likely to be misspellings. An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count, is a powerful tool for finding errors like this but is very time consuming. Is there a way to do a check like this in a more automated way in Tra... See more
Does Trados (or a plugin) have a feature that can help to find inconsistent spellings of individual words? For example, imagine that a word appears 250 times in a text spelled one way and then 2 times spelled another way. Obviously the 2 times are likely to be misspellings. An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count, is a powerful tool for finding errors like this but is very time consuming. Is there a way to do a check like this in a more automated way in Trados? Or some other tool? Thanks! ▲ Collapse
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Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 03:01 English to Russian
F7?
Oct 3, 2023
Owen Witesman wrote:
An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count
What is this? I have never seen anything that fits this description. Can't you use the regular F7 option? Probably you can give an example to clarify your situation?
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Hans Lenting Netherlands Member (2006) German to Dutch
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Hans Lenting Netherlands Member (2006) German to Dutch
Output
Oct 9, 2023
Just tested the macro and it works fine:
So where to go from here?
Enhance the macro to process only the target language column. Make your corrections directly to the generated table. Enhance the macro to apply the manual corrections to the target language column of the whole bilingual file. Import this corrected bilingual file in Trados.
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Stanislaw Semczuk Local time: 02:01 Member (2007) Polish to English + ...
It has, pretty effective
Oct 9, 2023
2022 (perhaps also a few editions earlier) has an advanced search module, where you can apply a REGEX filter on both source and target; this shall solve problem quickly. If your version does not have it, you can still apply REGEX filter to exclusive either source or target; if you are aware of how misspelled strings look, you may apply REGEX that filters only for the wrong versions in one go.
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Riccardo Schiaffino United States Local time: 18:01 Member (2003) English to Italian + ...
Use a concordance program
Oct 9, 2023
Owen Witesman wrote:
An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count, is a powerful tool for finding errors like this but is very time consuming. Is there a way to do a check like this in a more automated way in Trados? Or some other tool? Thanks!
You can create such a list quickly and easily using a text concordance tool, like the excellent (and free) AntConc AntConc, or the Simple Concordance Program (also free).
The procedure for both programs is similar: you save your translation to a text (.txt) file, open it in the concordance program, and create a word list. Once you have learned the basic usage of the concordance program, the whole process just takes a few minutes.
[Edited at 2023-10-10 00:08 GMT]
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