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The Sentence Review pane's results grid displays all translation units that reside in the
selected source document files. As defined by STPM, a translation unit is the minimal
sequence that can be translated by itself, and thus the pane's results grid will sometimes
offer phrase fragments as sentences.
2. Sort the grid by sentence complexity or ambiguity by clicking on the appropriate column
heading.
Complexity (C) Complexity is an indicator that reflects the syntactic
complexity of a sentence, represented by a numeric
value
greater than 1 (the higher the number, the more
difficult the sentence is to translate). Many factors go
into this indicator, including the number of clauses,
conjunctions, phrases in parentheses, prepositional
phrases, sentence length, sentence type (question or
declarative sentence) as well as multiple additional
language-specific criteria.
Ambiguity (A) Ambiguity is an indicator that reflects the number of
ambiguous words in a given sentence. A high-
ambiguity
sentence presents greater risk of mis-analysis and
reflects poor User Dictionary coverage. In most cases,