Instruction Manual

User’s Guide SYSTRAN 5.0 26
Using the Dictionaries Button
The Dictionaries button ( ) lets you select SYSTRAN Dictionaries and User
Dictionaries (UDs) to customize translations. SYSTRAN Professional Premium 5.0
users can also use this button to select Translation Memories (TMs) and
Normalization Dictionaries (NDs) to further customize translations. Clicking this button
lets you access the following dictionaries. The synergistic combination of these
dictionaries provides for more effective translations.
• SYSTRAN Dictionaries
SYSTRAN Professional Premium 5.0 contains five built-in dictionaries. These
dictionaries contain terms associated with industries, business, life sciences,
colloquial usage, and sciences. You cannot edit these dictionaries. However,
you can prioritize them (see Working with SYSTRAN Dictionaries and Domains,
page 27).
• User Dictionaries (UD)
UDs are functionally identical to the SYSTRAN dictionaries. Unlike SYSTRAN
dictionaries, you can use SDM to add and edit terms in UDs and train the
software about your translation requirements. UDs can be used with terms that
have specific or unusual meanings. Examples might be your company name, or
terms specific to your business or industry that are not found in the SYSTRAN
dictionaries.
• Translation Memory (TM)
SYSTRAN Professional Premium only: TM contains pretranslated and aligned
source/target sentences. When a sentence in TM appears again, TM
remembers the previous translation and suggests it to you.
• Normalization Dictionary (ND)
SYSTRAN Professional Premium only: NDs provide a way to normalize source
text before translation or normalize target text after translation. For example,
terms like “4u” that are used in chat-type environments can be defined as “for
you.” You can also use NDs to standardize spellings. If your company uses the
term “online” instead of “on-line,” for example, you can use the ND to ensure
that the appropriate instance of “online” is used.
SYSTRAN also provides online dictionaries that you can download from the
SYSTRAN website at www.systransoft.com
. Once downloaded onto your
computer, the online dictionaries appear as UDs within the SYSTRAN
applications.