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SYSTRAN Expert Tools and SYSTRAN Expert Tools Plus

Together with the Global Options feature, SYSTRAN Expert Tools include the following tools:

• SYSTRAN Toolbar

• Translating in Windows Applications

• SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM)

• SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM)

SDM and STPM features are detailed in Using SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) and

Using SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM).

With SYSTRAN Expert Tools, translation services and resources are provided by a

SYSTRAN Enterprise Server on the network. With SYSTRAN Expert Tools Plus, translation

services and resources are also provided locally on the client machine.

Special Terms Used in this Guide

The following table defines a few of the special terms used in this Guide.

Term Definition

Bilingual

Corpus

In Training Server, this is an aligned parallel corpus, meaning side-by-

side display of the source and target translation of the text data.

Corpus

(plural Corpora). A corpus is a structured set of texts in a single language

(monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual

corpus). An example a of multilingual corpus is the aligned parallel

corpus which displays side-by- side source text and multiple translations

of same text data.

DNT Do Not Translate: identifies a text sequence that should not be translated

Language Pair The source and target language

NFW Not Found Word: a term or expression not found in the translation

resources

RBMT Rule-Based Machine Translation

SDM SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager

SMT Statistical Machine Translation

STPM SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager

Test Corpus A bilingual corpus used to calculate automatic scores by comparing the

machine translated source language segments in the test corpus with the

target language segments in the test corpus.

Training

Corpus

bilingual corpus used in a training task (Hybrid Training and Statistical

Training) that generates the first version of the statistical resources used

by SYSTRAN Hybrid MT Engine.

Tuning Corpus A bilingual corpus used in a training task (Hybrid Training and Statistical

Training) to fine-

tune the statistical resources used by SYSTRAN Hybrid

MT Engine to improve translation quality.

TU/TUs Translation Unit(s). A TU consists of a source language segment and

one or several target language segments.

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