GENERATING AN AUTOSUGGEST DICTIONARY

Marchitan Irina, senior lecturer, Dep.Translation, Interpreting and

Applied Linguistics

AutoSuggest Dictionary

• AutoSuggest dictionary is a tool that identifies possible variants of words while you are typing and allows to insert them into the text to increase translation productivity.

• AutoSuggest dictionaries are created from existing translation memories. The TM input files can be in one of the following formats:

• - *.sdltm• - *.tmx(Translation Memory Exchange)• - *.tmx.gz(compressed TMX format)

Select from Tools menu

Generate dictionary

It can be created from TM (25 000 TU)

Select TM that contain more than 25 000 TU

Select SL and TL

Select number of TU to be processed. The choice depends on available operating memory of the computer.

Select location for saving

Processing can last for some time

As a result you have a dictionary with the extension .bmp

This dictionary can be added to the translation project for to increase productivity

Internet sources with TM

• http://www.englishelp.ru/translator/27-trados-tm.html

• http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=197