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Prerequisites

Context

You can generate top texts on the basis of your worklist , which enables you to reduce the manual translation workload. Depending on your chosen settings, the system scans the new or all source texts in the short text objects in your worklist, and then places them in demonstration objects in your worklist. The source texts are sorted according to how frequently they appear in the objects to be translated. The source text with the highest level of repetition in your worklist becomes the first source text in the first top text object.

You can call up top text objects for translation by double-clicking them in your worklist, just like any other short text object. You can then translate them in the short text editor . These top text objects are session-bound, which means that the system deletes them as soon as you reset or leave your worklist.

Session-bound top texts enable you to examine the most frequently occurring short texts in your worklist, so you can decide whether they are suitable for automatic distribution or not. You can create entries in the proposal pool with a suitably high quality status for those source texts which are suitable for distribution. While translating in the short text editor , you can distribute these proposals into the short text object you are currently translating. Furthermore, the proposals are distributed automatically when the next evaluation takes place, as long as automatic distribution has been set up for the evaluation runs .

Session-bound top texts are also a good way of getting to know the terminology in your worklist because they contain the source texts that occur most often.

Procedure


  1. If you want to generate session-bound top texts for all of the source texts in your worklist, irrespective of their translation status , choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Generate Top Texts (All) End of the navigation path.

    If you only want to generate session-bound top texts for the new (untranslated) source texts in your worklist, choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Generate Top Texts (New Texts Only) End of the navigation path.

  2. The Select Lower Limit dialog box appears. Double-click the quality status as of which source texts should be included in the top text objects.

    Example

    If you want to take all source texts into account, including those without a best proposal , select Z No Best Proposal as the lower limit. If you also want source texts with an existing best proposal to be taken into account, so that you can check and possibly increase the quality status of these best proposals, select a quality status that is lower than the highest quality status you are authorized to assign. For example, you could select X if the highest quality status you can assign is S.

  3. The Select Upper Limit dialog box appears. Double-click the quality status up to which source texts should be included in the top text objects.

    Example

    If you only want source texts to be taken into account if their quality status is no higher than X, select X Not Recommended for Distribution . However, if you want all source texts to be taken into account, select A Flag for Distribution . If you want source texts with an existing best proposal to be taken into account, so that you can check and possibly increase the quality status of these best proposals, select a quality status that is lower than the highest quality status you are authorized to assign. For example, you could select B Created by a New Translator if the highest quality status you can assign is S.

  4. The Choose Frequency Limit dialog box appears. The first column indicates how often a source text occurs. The second column indicates how many source texts occur this frequently in your worklist. Double-click the frequency limit as of which source texts should be taken into account.

    Example

    The Choose Frequency Limit dialog box contains the entry 0012 3. This means that three source texts occur twelve times in your worklist.

  5. The system generates session-bound top texts, and displays them under the Demonstration Objects node in your worklist.

    The demonstration objects comply with the following naming convention: TEMP_ONLY__TOP_TEXT R-<domain name> <sequential number> <user name>.

    Double-click the first demonstration object to start top text processing .

Next Steps

Worklists

Demonstration Objects for Quality Assurance (Top Texts)

Proposal Pool