Entering several columns in TM or glossary that can be used for concordance search Thread poster: Anna Sarah Krämer
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Dear colleagues,
I have a client who sends regular feedback for the translations I deliver on a spreadsheet. In this feedback appear several columns, for the specific product I was working on, the source text, my translation, the reviewer's version, date and error category, among other informations. I started accumulating these informations in a huge spreadsheet for occasional lookup, but searching inside Excel is a cumbersome job.
I would like to streamline the lookup... See more Dear colleagues,
I have a client who sends regular feedback for the translations I deliver on a spreadsheet. In this feedback appear several columns, for the specific product I was working on, the source text, my translation, the reviewer's version, date and error category, among other informations. I started accumulating these informations in a huge spreadsheet for occasional lookup, but searching inside Excel is a cumbersome job.
I would like to streamline the lookup process and find a tool that allows me to enter the information and conduct searches in more than two columns. As far as I know, most TM viewers and TMs in general work only with two languages, e.g. two columns, while most glossaries can display added information but don't allow me to conduct a concordance search for single terms. Or am I mistaken? What kind of tool could I use to look up for any term inside of my data?
Many thanks for your ideas.
Best regards,
Anna ▲ Collapse
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France
Local time: 12:40
French to Dutch
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| Maybe you need a desktop search program | Nov 13, 2013 |
Such as Copernic Desktop Search. It searches on your whole computer. The home version will do. I use it for years.
| | | | | Multilingual TB | Nov 13, 2013 |
Anna Sarah Krämer Fazendeiro wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I have a client who sends regular feedback for the translations I deliver on a spreadsheet. In this feedback appear several columns, for the specific product I was working on, the source text, my translation, the reviewer's version, date and error category, among other informations. I started accumulating these informations in a huge spreadsheet for occasional lookup, but searching inside Excel is a cumbersome job.
I would like to streamline the lookup process and find a tool that allows me to enter the information and conduct searches in more than two columns. As far as I know, most TM viewers and TMs in general work only with two languages, e.g. two columns, while most glossaries can display added information but don't allow me to conduct a concordance search for single terms. Or am I mistaken? What kind of tool could I use to look up for any term inside of my data?
Many thanks for your ideas.
Best regards,
Anna
You don't mention what tool you use. If it's trados, you could possibly just create a multilingual MultiTerm TB. Label the extra column as Lithuanian or whatever you feel like and then you can search it in the desktop Multiterm program. But not in Trados itself... I think you'll find that none of the options you can come up with is much better than Excel.
| | | | Anna Sarah Krämer
Germany
Local time: 12:40
Member (2011)
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Multiterm worth a try | Nov 14, 2013 |
FarkasAndras wrote:
You don't mention what tool you use. If it's trados, you could possibly just create a multilingual MultiTerm TB. Label the extra column as Lithuanian or whatever you feel like and then you can search it in the desktop Multiterm program. But not in Trados itself... I think you'll find that none of the options you can come up with is much better than Excel.
I have SDL Trados, I might try. But is it possible to conduct searches for single words or parts of phrases inside of larger entries in a TB? Working with Multiterm is fine. I don't need to search within Trados itself, as in this case I am working in an online system anyway.
Best regards,
Anna
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Anna Sarah Krämer Fazendeiro wrote: FarkasAndras wrote:
You don't mention what tool you use. If it's trados, you could possibly just create a multilingual MultiTerm TB. Label the extra column as Lithuanian or whatever you feel like and then you can search it in the desktop Multiterm program. But not in Trados itself... I think you'll find that none of the options you can come up with is much better than Excel. I have SDL Trados, I might try. But is it possible to conduct searches for single words or parts of phrases inside of larger entries in a TB? Working with Multiterm is fine. I don't need to search within Trados itself, as in this case I am working in an online system anyway. Best regards, Anna
MultiTerm has fuzzy search. You get hits if your search string matches or nearly matches any part of a term in the termbase.
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