RE: [xliff] Y22 - Translation proposals

[Helena S Chapman <hchapman@us.ibm.com>]

Ideally, I'd like to see synonyms or the
like to have 100 "similarity" score as well so it is not limited
to a strict edit distance calculation in some sense. If we can define similarity
a little more broadly, I would be more comfortable with that.




From:      
 Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
To:      
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Date:      
 10/02/2012 12:45 PM
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   RE: [xliff]
Y22 - Translation proposals
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Hi Helena,

> I am curious whether when we say "similarity" we also 
> meant "synonymity"? For example, "big" and "large"
> often has the same meaning even within context. 
> There is a situation where we do automatic 
> replacements even if the words are not "similar" but with
the same meaning. 

I would say if the source of the match has synonyms rather than the same
words as the entry source its similarity would be less than 100. 
I'm not sure that answer your question though.


> What is the likelihood of other types of "cb" in maxprog
> that is not "exact-context"? or "am" type matches
that 
> are not composed of substrings from various segments in okp?

The idea is to have broad categories and not assume the details. For example
some tool could use get context information using a fuzzy threshold, or
a assembled translation may be done partly from substring tm matches, partly
from MT text and partly from glossary matches.


> Having said that, I can see we might use, 
> type="tm/hadoop:short" 
> type="mt/lucy:long" 
> where the payment of each segment match is determined 
> by the length of the segment. Is that what you are thinking? 

I guess that's a use case. The type customized part of the type of match
is for each workflow/tool to define as it sees fit.

Cheers,
-yves



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