User Guide

SYSTRAN 6 Desktop User Guide iv
Coding an Individual User Dictionary Entry ............................................................................... 99
Coding All User Dictionary Entries ............................................................................................ 99
Using ExpertCoding .................................................................................................... 100
Changing Groupings............................................................................................................... 101
Modifying a Group .................................................................................................................. 102
Sorting Dictionary Columns......................................................................................... 102
Marking Headwords .................................................................................................... 103
Finding Dictionary Entries ........................................................................................... 103
Replacing Dictionary Entries ....................................................................................... 105
Importing Files into a User Dictionary ......................................................................... 105
Exporting Files from a User Dictionary........................................................................ 106
Translation Memories .................................................................................................... 107
Normalization Dictionaries ............................................................................................ 107
Lookup Operators .......................................................................................................... 108
Using the textual lookup operators mode ................................................................................ 108
Using IntuitiveCoding Technology to Build Efficient Dictionaries............................. 109
IntuitiveCoding Examples.............................................................................................. 109
Entry Definition............................................................................................................ 110
Canonical Form ...................................................................................................................... 110
Use of Uppercase Letters ....................................................................................................... 111
Simple and Compound Entries................................................................................................ 111
Intuitive Clues.............................................................................................................. 112
Specifying the Gender of Appropriate Articles......................................................................... 112
Use of Singular and Plural ...................................................................................................... 113
Separable Particles................................................................................................................. 113
Additional Clues .......................................................................................................... 114
Syntax of Additional Clues ...................................................................................................... 114
Grammatical Category............................................................................................................ 115
Specifying Gender and Number.............................................................................................. 115
Specifying Inflected Forms...................................................................................................... 116
Prepositions............................................................................................................................ 117
Conditional Entries.................................................................................................................. 117
Variants .................................................................................................................................. 119
Syntactic Information .............................................................................................................. 121
Semantic Categorization......................................................................................................... 121
Protected Sequences.................................................................................................. 122
Bracketing ................................................................................................................... 122
Multiple Meanings ....................................................................................................... 122
Equivalent Meanings................................................................................................... 123
SDM Import and Export Specifications ........................................................................ 123
Microsoft Excel Files ................................................................................................... 123
Formatted Text Files ................................................................................................... 124
Required and Optional Fields for Importing Files into SDM ..................................................... 124
Description of the different codes defining the content fields................................................... 124
Sample Formatted Text File.................................................................................................... 125
Chapter 13: Using SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM) ................. 127
How Does STPM Work? ................................................................................................. 128
SYSTRAN Practices for Improving Translation Quality .............................................. 129
Linguistic Resources ................................................................................................... 129