User Guide

SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide 205
UD Entry Example
English
French
Spanish
German
to run over
écraser
atropellar
um~fahren
Translation Example
First Coding
Source Text (English)
English
German
Target Text (German)
The car ran over the dog.
to run over
umfahren
Das Auto umfuhr den Hund.
Enriched Coding
The car ran over the dog.
to run over
um~fahren
Das Auto fuhr den Hund um.
Additional Clues
You can attach additional linguistic information to each UD entry when you have more
complex translation requirements. These entries can include:
• Grammatical category
• Specifying gender and number
• Specifying inflected forms
• Prepositions
• Conditional entries
• Variants
• Syntactic information
• Semantic categorization
These additional clues generally have localized and abbreviated variants. The available clues
for each language are described in separate documents placed on your PC during the
SYSTRAN Desktop 7 installation. The default location is:
c:/Program Files/SYSTRAN/Desktop/Dicts
These files are named CodingReference_xx.html, where xx is the iso 639 code of the
language.
Some of the information provided through additional clues is also available through
intuitive clues, such as grammatical category, gender, and number. The type of entry
used depends on the complexity and size of the dictionary.
Syntax of Additional Clues
Additional clues are placed in brackets, and are added at the end of a dictionary entry. For
multiple word expressions, additional clues can be placed after the complete entry if they are