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SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide 199
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 to Build Efficient Dictionaries
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:
Entry Definition
Canonical form
Use of uppercase letters
Simple and compound entries
Reserved characters
Intuitive Clues
Specifying the gender or appropriate article
Use of singular and plural
Separable particles
Additional Clues
Grammatical category
Specifying gender and number
Specifying inflected forms
Prepositions
Conditional entries
Variants form
Syntactic information
Semantic categorization
Protected