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Prerequisites

  • If you want to create top texts on the basis of an object list, then you must create an object list in transaction LXE_MASTER. If you want to create top texts on the basis of more than one object list, you need to merge them first.

  • If you want to create top texts on the basis of a worklist, then a worklist must be available for each target language for which you want to create top texts.

    For more information, see Creating Evaluations.

Context

When you create top texts for an object list or worklist, the system scans the source texts and then creates top text objects containing the source texts that match your selection criteria. The source texts are sorted according to the frequency with which they occur in the objects in the object list or worklist.

Translators process these top text objects, and create proposals with quality status A Flag for Distribution for as many unambiguous source texts as possible. You can then start an evaluation with automatic distribution to distribute these proposals and reduce the manual translation workload.

Procedure

  1. In transaction LXE_MASTER, choose Start of the navigation path DEMS Objects Next navigation step Top Texts Next navigation step Standard End of the navigation path.

    The Create Top Texts screen appears.

  2. Enter your selection criteria as follows:

    Source Language

    In the Source Language field, enter a source language for the scan.

    Target Languages

    In the Target Languages field, enter target languages for the scan.

    You can use the following functions to select multiple languages:

    • Multiple Selection enables you to specify multiple target languages for the specified source language.

    • Insert From Graphs (Filtered by Source Language) automatically inserts all target languages defined in translation graphs for the specified source language.

    DEMS Objects Name

    Enter a string in the DEMS Objects Name field that will help you recognize the DEMS objects when you call them up in the short text editor. The default value is YYYY-DD-MM (for example, 2013-16-01.)

    DEMS Objects Description

    You can enter a description in the DEMS Objects Description field to document how you created the DEMS objects.

    Minimum Source Text Frequency

    Enter the minimum repetition level of the source texts in the Minimum Source Text Frequency field.

    For example, if you only want the top texts to contain source texts that occur three times or more, enter 3 in this field. The default value is 10.

    Object List

    If you want to create top texts on the basis of an object list, select the Object List radio button and use the input help function to enter an object list number in the Object List field.

    If you want the language settings to be checked, select the Check Language Settings checkbox. If you select this checkbox, the report checks the following for each target language:

    • The object type definition in transaction LXE_MASTER. Object types that are not defined for translation into frFR, for example, are skipped when top texts are generated for target language frFR.

    • The exception tables LXE_LEXPT and LXE_PEXPT.

    • The assignments of collections to graphs in transaction LXE_MASTER.

      If top texts are generated for target language trTR, for example, the report skips all of the objects in the object list that belong to collections assigned to graphs that are not defined for translation into trTR.

    If you do not select the Check Language Settings checkbox, the report creates top texts for all of the source texts in the object list, irrespective of whether they are relevant for translation into the target languages or not.

    Worklist

    If you want to create top texts on the basis of a worklist, select the Worklist radio button and use the input help function to enter a worklist number in the Worklist Number field.

    The Object Status field enables you to determine whether new and/or modified and/or translated short text objects are included in the scan to create top texts. The default values are M and N. This ensures that only new and modified objects are included in the scan.

    Translation Status (Text Pair)

    These checkboxes determine whether new and/or modified and/or translated short text lines are included in the scan. According to the default setting, top texts are only created for new and modified lines.

    Quality Status (Best Proposal)

    The Minimum and Maximum fields enable you to restrict the scan to lines with best proposals in a specific quality status range.

    For example, if the minimum value is zero and the maximum value is 1, top texts are only created for source texts without best proposals. However, if you use the input help function to select minimum quality status B and maximum quality status S, top texts are only created for source texts that already have a best proposal with status B or S. The default minimum value is zero, and the default maximum value is 1.

    Separate by Domains

    If the object list or worklist contains objects from collections belonging to different domains, you are advised to select the Separate by Domains checkbox so that domain-specific top text objects are created.

    For example, the system creates separate top text objects for source texts in objects from Basis (domain BC) that match your selection criteria. This gives translators more context, because they can see that the source texts in their top text objects come from Basis (BC) and not, for example, from Payroll (PY) or Materials Management (MM.) It also allows translators to create domain standards for the domain in question if it is not possible to create a system standard for the source text.

    If you deselect this checkbox, translators can only create system standards for the source texts in their top text objects and have no way of knowing which domain, or domains, the source texts belong to.

    Create DEMS Object List

    If you select the Create DEMS Object List checkbox, the system creates special object lists that contain the top text objects created by this report.

    This enables you to:
    Note

    Initial and Upgrade Top Texts

    You create initial top texts by using the Minimum and Maximum fields in the Quality Status (Best Proposal) group box to restrict the scan to short text lines with no best proposals at all. The resulting top text objects enable translators to create proposals for source texts for the very first time.

    You create upgrade top texts by using the same fields to restrict the scan to short text lines that already have best proposals in a specific quality status range. For example, you could create top texts for source texts that already have a best proposal with status B or S. The resulting top text objects enable translators to check existing proposals and, if possible, increase their quality status to A Flag for Distribution. This maximizes their distribution potential.

    If you select the Initial or Upgrade button in the application toolbar of the Create Top Texts screen, default values for initial or upgrade top texts are inserted automatically into the following fields:

    DEMS Objects Name

    For example:

    • I0001_1701 indicates that initial top texts will be created on the basis of worklist 0001 on 17 January.

    • U0023_2504 indicates that upgrade top texts will be created on the basis of worklist 0023 on 25 April.

      If you specify the worklist number in the Object Selection group box before selecting the Initial or Upgrade button, the correct worklist number is inserted automatically into the DEMS Objects Name field.

    Minimum Source Text Frequency

    The default value is 3.

    Object List / Worklist

    The Worklist radio button is selected.

    Object Status

    The values M and N are inserted.

    Translation Status (Text Pair)

    New and Modified are selected.

    Quality Status (Best Proposal)

    If you choose Initial, the minimum value is zero and the maximum value is 1.

    If you choose Upgrade, the minimum value is 40 (status B) and the maximum value is 89 (status S.)

    If you want to create upgrade top texts for best proposals with quality status X, B and S, use the input help function for the Minimum field to select quality status X.

    Separate by Domains

    This checkbox is selected.

    Create DEMS Object List

    This checkbox is selected.
  3. Schedule the job to run in the background.

Results

Providing that source texts matching your selection criteria exist in the object list or worklist, the report creates top text objects containing the appropriate source texts, which are sorted according to how frequently they occur.

The spool displays the technical names of the top text objects created by the report. The technical names of the top text objects are structured as follows:

<Source Language><TOP><DEMS object name><Target language><Domain><Sequential number>

For example, the following information can be derived from the DEMS object name deDE-TOP__C-INITIAL_FR-frFR-R-BC------------0002:

  • The object contains German (deDE) source texts

  • It is a TOP text object

  • You entered INITIAL_FR in the DEMS Objects Name field when you maintained the report parameters

  • It was created for target language French (frFR)

  • It contains source texts found in objects belonging to the Basis (BC) domain

  • It is the second top text object that was created by the report

You can now trigger top text processing.