User Guide

SYSTRAN 6 Desktop User Guide 108
Expand abbreviations. In email language or chats, for example, “4u” can be normalized
to “for you” before translation, so that it is correctly processed by the translation engine.
Target normalization adapts translation output to user needs for terminology
consistency. It also provides a way to replace sequences generated by the software
with user-defined sequences.
Since normalization dictionaries are applied both before and after the translation
process, it is possible to make use of the coding category “sequence” without breaking
the sentence analysis.
Lookup Operators
Lookup Operators are available for use only in SYSTRAN
Premium Translator.
You can simplify your User Dictionary by reducing the number of entries through the
use of Lookup operators. Each operator represents a certain pattern or range of
characters that can be found in an expression or in a User Dictionary. For example, the
Number operator represents any number.
There are three types of predefined Lookup operators:
URL operator
Match a URL (file path or Web URL)
Find operator
Use the Find operator to help reduce the size of a dictionary by
factorizing 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.