User Guide

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Target normalization adapts translation output to user needs for terminology consistency. It
also provides a way to replace sequences generated by the software with user-defined
sequences.
Since normalization dictionaries are applied both before and after the translation process, it is
possible to make use of the coding category “sequence” without breaking the sentence
analysis.
Lookup Operators
You can simplify your User Dictionary by reducing the number of entries through the use of
Lookup operators. Each operator represents a certain pattern or range of characters that can
be found in an expression or in a User Dictionary. For example, the Number operator
represents any number.
There are three types of predefined Lookup operators:
URL operator Match a URL (file path or Web URL)
Find operator
Use the Find operator to help reduce the size of a dictionary by factorizing
entries. The example below shows the use of the Find operator (displayed
using the textual lookup operators mode).
The corresponding entries match and translate “onion salad”, “carrot
salad”, and any vegetable salad when the vegetables are listed in a
separate “vegetable” dictionary.
Number operator
Match any number. For example, the following Normalization Dictionary
entry converts a sequence like "13°" into "13 degrees"
Using the textual lookup operators mode
You can view the textual sequence that corresponds to a lookup operator. This is useful when
you need to insert several lookup operators in a UD and align them together. For the example
above, the textual representation is:
The number following the lookup operator name (0 in the example) needs to be used
consistently in the source and target to ensure that it identifies the same sequence.
Using IntuitiveCoding Technology
Proper dictionary coding is important, since it impacts the way terms are analyzed during
translation. IntuitiveCoding is a proprietary SYSTRAN technology that automatically enriches
your dictionary entries with information to improve translation quality.
IntuitiveCoding entries can include the following information: