Quick Start Guide

SYSTRAN 7 – Quick Start Guide
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 Source Category terms, used to specify the grammatical category of source
terms without specifying their translations
After you specify the properties for a UD, you can add source and target language terms to
it.
1) Click your cursor in an open box in the Source column. Enter the term to be
translated.
2) Move the cursor to the Target language box on the same row and enter the target
language term.
3) Click in the Category box to display the Category dropdown and select the
grammatical category of the word (noun, verb, etc.). You can allow SDM to select a
category automatically by selecting Auto (refer to Coding User Dictionary Entries).
4) Enter data in any other editable columns.
Coding User Dictionary Entries
Use the Code Selection and Code All commands in the Dictionary menu to check the
syntactical accuracy of your UD translations against the SYSTRAN Linguistic Resource
database.
Coding an Individual User Dictionary Entry
1) Click in any field in the record that is to be coded.
2) Select Code Selection on the Dictionary menu or click the Code Selection button
on the toolbar to begin the coding process and display the results.
Display Confidence as a UD column by checking the box in the Dictionary Columns
toolbox. The Confidence feature measures and displays the level of confidence the
software has in the accuracy of coded User Dictionary entries. You should validate
any entry that shows a low confidence level.
3) Double-click the gray box at the far left of an entry to check its confidence level. SDM
will check the entry, and the length and color of the bar in the Confidence column
show the confidence level of the entry. A confidence symbol also appears in the
Status column next to the entry.
Symbol Description
The coding of the entry is evaluated as good by IntuitiveCoding.
The coding of the entry has been validated through
ExpertCoding. This is the highest level of validation.