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How to handle repetitive texts before OmegaT sent to API machine translation?
Thread poster: reinacher
reinacher
reinacher
Switzerland
May 9, 2021

Dear experts,

I am new to OmegaT. I'd highly appreciate your professional advice, really.
We have e-commerce files, SKUs with similar names, different type numbers
For example:
PLACA ELETRÔNICA PFD94900-2
PLACA ELETRÔNICA OPFI149400
PLACA ELETRÔNICA KLQI 04900-2
PLACA ELETRÔNICA KKLFI 24/36/48
PLACA ELETRÔNICA SD49492000

Problem is that, if we run 10k paragraphs like this via machine translation only 10% will be unique, the... See more
Dear experts,

I am new to OmegaT. I'd highly appreciate your professional advice, really.
We have e-commerce files, SKUs with similar names, different type numbers
For example:
PLACA ELETRÔNICA PFD94900-2
PLACA ELETRÔNICA OPFI149400
PLACA ELETRÔNICA KLQI 04900-2
PLACA ELETRÔNICA KKLFI 24/36/48
PLACA ELETRÔNICA SD49492000

Problem is that, if we run 10k paragraphs like this via machine translation only 10% will be unique, the rest is just repetitive text.

As a result, all characters translated with the API machine translation will be charged. For the translation of repetitive texts, this is an important factor to take into account in order to avoid translating the same text over and over again and thus save on consumption.

My question is how to configure OmegaT to use databases before asking the MT API to translate any text, so its system first checks whether there are existing translations for the text to be translated. If the answer is "yes", the translation already available is displayed. If the answer is "no", then the text to be translated is sent to the MT API and stored in the database. Any plug-ins, process, custom work? Thank you in advance. ▲ Collapse
 
Susan Welsh
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I have no idea... May 10, 2021

... but if no one answers here, ask on the sourceforge OmegaT list, which gets more traffic:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/omegat-users
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esperantisto
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If I understand you correctly… May 10, 2021

… what you need is to disable Automatically fetch translations in the machine translation options.

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Samuel Murray
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Yes May 10, 2021

esperantisto wrote:
Disable Automatically fetch translations in the machine translation options.


Yes, so Options > Machine Translate > Automatically Fetch Translations. You can then fetch translations on demand using Ctrl+M, and then insert the translation by pressing Ctrl+M again.

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By the way, if you have dozens/hundreds of segments that all start with a certain phrase e.g. "PLACA ELETRÔNICA", you can experiment with adding it to the segmentation rules so that it splits directly after that phrase.

Briefly,
1. Click Options > Segmentation
2. Click the top Add button, and then change "LN-CO" to ".*"
3. Select "New Language and Country" in the top box, and then click the bottom Add button.
4. Put a checkbox in the "Break/Exception" box, put "^PLACA ELETRÔNICA" in the "Pattern before" field, and make the "Pattern after" field empty (or leave it as "\s" or change it to "."). The "^" means "start of line".

See also segmentation setup and regular expressions in the user manual.

Capture-3

[Edited at 2021-05-10 18:27 GMT]

[Edited at 2021-05-10 18:29 GMT]

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