Instruction Manual

User’s Guide SYSTRAN 5.0 146

The coding process is facilitated by SYSTRAN’s Intuitive Coding Technology

. This

technology converts into linguistic information all “clues” that exist in the entries (clues

can be implicit, for example determiners, or explicit and represented using brackets).

Schematically, coding level varies from fully automatic coding, where SDM either

finds the information it needs in the entries and guesses it when the information is

missing, to expert coding, where you can review all coding performed by the software

and correct and complete it with additional linguistic information.

Obtaining a good coding quality is important, since it impacts the way the terms are

analyzed during the translation. The instruments of the SYSTRAN Intuitive Coding

process are:

• Protected Sequences

• Bracketing

• Canonical Form

• Upper-Case Letters

• Simple and Compound Entries

• Intuitive Clues

• Conditional Entries

• Grammatical entries

Intuitive coding clues and specifications are language-specific. SYSTRAN

provides a comprehensive list of these clues by language at

http://www.systransoft.com/Support/Dicts/.