Translation memory
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Apertium can use a translation memory (TMX file) to override the default translations by using the -m (and -o) command line argument:
-m memory.tmx use a translation memory to recycle translations
-o direction translation direction using the translation memory,
by default 'direction' is used instead
Example usage[edit]
Example TMX:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE tmx SYSTEM "tmx14.dtd">
<tmx version="1.4">
<header creationtool="Translate Toolkit - po2tmx" creationtoolversion="1.9.0"
segtype="sentence" o-tmf="UTF-8" adminlang="en" srclang="en" datatype="PlainText"/>
<body>
<tu>
<tuv xml:lang="en">
<seg>Welcome to Wikipedia</seg>
</tuv>
<tuv xml:lang="ca">
<seg>Benvinguts a la Viquipèdia</seg>
</tuv>
</tu>
<tu>
<tuv xml:lang="en">
<seg>The Free Encyclopedia</seg>
</tuv>
<tuv xml:lang="ca">
<seg>L'Enciclopèdia Lliure</seg>
</tuv>
</tu>
</body>
</tmx>
If you've saved that as en-ca.tmx, entries there will override the suggestions from apertium. Let's try with and without the tmx:
$ echo Welcome to Wikipedia. Hello|apertium en-ca Benvingut a Viquipèdia. Hola $ echo Welcome to Wikipedia. Hello|apertium en-ca -m en-ca.tmx Benvinguts a la Viquipèdia. Hola
See also[edit]
- Tools for TMX
- TMX
- Tips for translators
- Ideas_for_Google_Summer_of_Code/Command-line_translation_memory_fuzzy-match_repair
Further reading[edit]
- Planas, E., Furuse, O. (1999) "Formalizing translation memories". Proc. MT Summit VII. pp. 331–339
- Elliott Macklovitch and Graham Russell (2000) "What's been Forgotten in Translation Memory". AMTA 2000 pp.137–146
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_Memory_eXchange
