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Chapter 9: Using SYSTRAN Dictionary
Manager (SDM)
SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) is supported by:
 SYSTRAN Personal
 SYSTRAN Office Translator
 SYSTRAN Professional Standard
 SYSTRAN Professional Premium
This chapter describes the Expert version of SDM. You may not be able to use
all of these features if you have the Basic or Advanced version. For a complete
description of the features supported by each SDM version, see SYSTRAN
Dictionary Manager (SDM) on page 17.
SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) lets you build, create, and maintain User
Dictionaries (UDs), Translation Memories (TMs), and Normalization Dictionaries
(NDs). These dictionaries are used in other SYSTRAN 5.0 applications to customize
your translations.
SDM offers significant advantages, including:
• SYSTRAN's unique Intuitive Coding® technology
• Vast data importation capability
• Fine-tuning tools for dictionary entries
• An extensive group of linguistic tools for improving coding quality, from simple
intuitive coding to Expert coding
Overview
The following sections describe UDs, TMs, and NDs.
User Dictionaries (UDs)
User Dictionaries (UDs) let you increase the quality of source language analyses,
which also enhances the translation output for all associated target languages. UDs
can be used for a number of functions, including:
• Automatically translating words not found in the SYSTRAN dictionary.
• Overriding the target-language meaning of a word or expression in the
SYSTRAN dictionaries, a capability that lets you customize translation output to
fit specific needs.
• Ensuring that an expression is always treated as a unit by SYSTRAN analysis
programs. (For SDM, an expression is a group of words with no verb.)