SDL Trados Studio 2019

Getting Started for Translators

Part 2: Working with the Supply Chain and Pre-
production

Training Course

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 Learning Objectives

How to…
Process SDL Trados Studio and SDL WorldServer
Packages
Create translation memories and termbases using
legacy content (e.g. Excel glossaries and already
translated documents)

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Agenda
• Training outline
• Working with SDL
Trados Studio:
Workflow overview
• Training presentation
• Questions and answers

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 Training Outline

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 Training outline

SDL Trados Studio Project packages

What are project packages?
Opening a project package
Reading the Analyze Files report
Accessing the package files
Translating the package files
What are context matches?
Choosing from several TM suggestions
Adding new terms on the fly
Handling tags correctly
Interactive tag verification
Adding comments to your translation
Filtering for segments, e.g. to show only segments that contain comments
Creating the return package for delivery

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 Training outline

SDL WorldServer Project packages

What are SDL WorldServer packages?
Opening a WS package
Processing the files in the WS package
What are PerfectMatches (PM)?
Handling locked segments
Delivering the translated files to WS and marking the
translation job as complete

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 Training outline

SDL GroupShare
What is SDL GroupShare?
How to accept SDL GroupShare assignments?
How to deliver jobs through SDL GroupShare
Fuzzy match repair
What is fuzzy match repair?
What sources can be used for repairing fuzzy matches?
How to handle repaired fuzzy match?

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 Training outline

Pre-production: creating translation resources from legacy

documents
Leveraging previously translated documents through
alignment
Creating an auto-suggest dictionary
Creating a simple termbase
Converting glossaries into a termbase

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 Pre-production

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 Pre-production overview
AutoSuggest™ File preparation and
Translation Memories (TM) Termbases (TB) dictionaries (AS) testing
Upgrading TMs from SDL Creation & configuration of Generation of AutoSuggest
File conversion
Trados 2007 TBs dictionaries

Trados Studio MultiTerm Trados Studio Native application

Creation & configuration of

Creation & configuration of Upgrading TBs from SDL
file types
TMs MultiTerm 2007 or earlier

Trados Studio MultiTerm Trados Studio

Converting
TM maintenance Pseudo-translation
glossaries

Trados Studio MultiTerm Convert Trados Studio

Alignment Terminology extraction

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SDL Trados Studio MultiTerm Extract
 Creating Translation Memories
SDL Trados Studio

Fields and Language

General
settings resources
information
(optional) (optional)

• Name, description, • Text or List fields • Variable list SDLTM

copyright • Settings • Abbreviation list
• Languages • Recognize dates • Ordinal follower list
• Character-based • Recognize times • Segmentation rules
concordance search • Recognize numbers
• Recognize acronyms
• Recognize variables
• Recognize measurements

If product names and proper names are added to the variable list they will be treated as
placeables during translation.
The TM needs to be re-indexed if language resources have been added or modified.
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 Aligning Translated Documents
Alignment
Source
language 100%

Create
Align Verify
alignment
project alignment
project

• Languages • Align file pair • Edit units

• File format • Align project
• Project files
• Parameters
Target • Export options
language

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 Generate AutoSuggest Dictonaries

SDL Trados Studio

Generate

BPM
• SDLTM or TMX file
• Settings

A TM with at least 10,000 translation units is required to generate an AutoSuggest dictionary.

AutoSuggest generation process can run in the background.
AutoSuggest dictionaries are not updated during translation.

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 Creating Termbases
Which field describes the concept
SDL MultiTerm What information is needed in
addition to source and target term?
(entry level)? Which field relates to
the whole language (index level)
Add as little fields as possible and as
and which one to a specific term
many as necessary…
(term level)

Specify
Termbase Add general Add Specify entry
definition information fields structure

SDLTB

• Create new termbase • Name • Index fields = languages • Entry level

definition • Description • Descriptive fields • Index level
• Use • Copyright • Status, Note, Context, • Term level
• predefined termbase Source…
template • Type: Text, Picklist,
• existing termbase Multimedia
definition
• existing termbase
The predefined termbase templates can be adjusted and
extended during termbase creation.
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 Converting Glossaries

SDL MultiTerm Convert SDL MultiTerm

Create
termbase

• Based on termbase
Convert definition (XDT)

CSV, TXT, XLS/X, SDLTB

TBX • Map imported
information to termbase Import
structure
• Convert terms

When importing into existing glossaries: Make sure that column • Into existing or new
headers in the glossary to be converted match the field names termbase
defined in the MultiTerm termbase.

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 TRANSLATION SUPPLY
CHAIN

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Translating Project Package Files - Translator’s Perspective

Create return
Open Translation package
package
ZIP! SDLPPX or SDLRPX
SDLWSXZ • From Projects view
• Import local project • Confirm translations • From Files view (partly delivery)
• Verify reports • Add comments • Send via email or FTP
• Open files • Preview
• Display filter
• Spell checking (F7)
• QA Verification (F8)
• Terminology verification

Make sure all translations are confirmed before creating the return package!
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Delivering The Translated Project Packages - Translator’s Perspective

Create
return
package
SDLXLIFF
• From Projects view
• From Files view
(partly delivery)
• Send via email or FTP
SDLRPX
The return package only contains the translated SDLXLIFF files!
Note: You can also do a partly delivery…

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 Working With Comments

SDLRPX

• Add comments • Display filter >

• Document Segments with
• Segment comments
• Selection • Edit comments
• Delete comments

The display filter can be found under Review > Display Filter.
Add conventions for using comments to translation guidelines.

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 Automating tasks with batch tasks
Processes performed by SDL Trados Studio on
an individual file / a group of files / the entire project
Can be combined into a task sequence

• Convert to translatable format

• Copy to target languages
Pre- • Analyze
• • Update TMs
Pre-translate
Projectproduction • Create project TMProject Project Project • Update TBs
Translation
• Save translated files
preparation& file • creation
Apply PerfectMatch preparation
finalization • Export files
preparation

BatchProject
tasks
Review Sign-off Delivery
finalization
Task sequences

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 Manual Adaptation of Fuzzy Matches

Previous TU: Differences have to be spotted

Source: Click here to open the window. and adapted manually.
Target: Cliquez ici pour ouvrir la fenêtre.

Current TU:
Source: Click here to close the window.
Target: Cliquez ici pour ouvrirfermer la fenêtre.

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 Automatic Adaptation of Fuzzy Matches
Previous TU: Fuzzy Match repair
Source: Click here to open the window.
automatically adapts the fuzzy
matches using a termbase
Target: Cliquez ici pour ouvrir la fenêtre. entry.

Current TU:
Source: Click here to close the window.
Target: Cliquez ici pour ouvrirfermer la fenêtre.
Termbase entry

English: close
French: fermer

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 Automatic Adaptation of Fuzzy Matches
Fuzzy Match Repair
Previous TU:
automatically adapts the fuzzy
Source: Click here to open the window. matches using segment
Target: Cliquez ici pour ouvrir la fenêtre. fragments from other TUs … or
from a machine translation
Current TU:
system.
Source: Click here to close the window.
Target: Cliquez ici pour ouvrirfermer la fenêtre.

Other TU in TM

English: You need to close the door.

French: Vous devez fermer la porte.

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