User Guide

SYSTRAN 6 Desktop User Guide 140
Simplifying Complex and Ambiguous Sentences
STPM’s Sentence Review pane provides two key metrics – Sentence Complexity and
Sentence Ambiguity– designed to help authors write text that is well-suited for
automatic translation. Using these metrics as a guideline, authors can work to simplify
sentences that SYSTRAN identifies as complicated, and thus greatly improve the
quality of their translations.
Sentences that appear multiple times in the source files only display one time in
the Sentence Review pane.
With the Sentence Review pane you can also easily save your document file edits to
your Translation Memories (TMs).
Review panes can be used once a translation action has been taken on a selected
Project source file.
1. Open the Sentence Review pane by selecting the View|Sentence Review
command or by clicking the View|Sentence Review button in the STPM
View Toolbar.
The Sentence Review pane’s results grid displays all translation units that
reside in the selected source document files. As defined by STPM, a
translation unit is the minimal sequence that can be translated by itself, and
thus the pane’s results grid will sometimes offer phrase fragments as
sentences.