Mass confirmation of number-only segments after MT Thread poster: Vieslav Vieslavovich
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Has anyone managed to get around this nonsense of MemoQ not being able to quickly pre-translate, confirm and lock all number-only segments AFTER the document has been pretranslated with machine translation? After years of work, I'm really tired of having to confirm things like "1.", "1,500" etc.
MemoQ may be more stable and in some cases more functional than Trados, but it really excels in wasting your time...
[Edited at 2021-03-15 12:57 GMT]
| | | | | Sort alphabetically | Mar 15, 2021 |
Maybe there is a different way to do it, but in this situation I usually sort alphabetically, select all segments containing numbers, and confirm them in one go.
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This is what I am forced to do too, but we’re in 2021, c’mon MemoQ... They could
have at least included a respective function in the Automated Actions.
It’s funny how both Studio and MemoQ just HAVE to have their traditional workflow-destroying shortcomings. With Trados it’s the horribly slow and tedious find&replace process.
To think you pay hundreds of dollars for this software and they leave obvious workflow retardants of this sort for years on end is... See more This is what I am forced to do too, but we’re in 2021, c’mon MemoQ... They could
have at least included a respective function in the Automated Actions.
It’s funny how both Studio and MemoQ just HAVE to have their traditional workflow-destroying shortcomings. With Trados it’s the horribly slow and tedious find&replace process.
To think you pay hundreds of dollars for this software and they leave obvious workflow retardants of this sort for years on end is outrageous. This is stuff an average software developer could probably handle within a day‘s work.
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| | | | Tomasz Sienicki 
Denmark
Local time: 20:48
Member (2007)
Danish to Polish
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| Use regex to mass-confirm number-only segments | Mar 16, 2021 |
There's an easy way of achieving just that, assuming the numbers are supposed to look the same on both sides (source and target).
- Click the sprocket icon over the translation grid and check the “Use regex” checkbox
- Type ^\P{L}*\d\P{L}*$ in the filter field over the source column and press Enter
- Press Ctrl+Shift+A to mark all segments; then Shift+Alt+S to copy source to target; then Ctrl+Shift+Enter to confirm all the se
... See more There's an easy way of achieving just that, assuming the numbers are supposed to look the same on both sides (source and target).
- Click the sprocket icon over the translation grid and check the “Use regex” checkbox
- Type ^\P{L}*\d\P{L}*$ in the filter field over the source column and press Enter
- Press Ctrl+Shift+A to mark all segments; then Shift+Alt+S to copy source to target; then Ctrl+Shift+Enter to confirm all the segments without committing them to the TM; then Ctrl+L to lock them
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Nice one, fellow countryman! Will definitely give this a try with my next numericals-heavy project, but the enormous regex command seems to be doing the trick so far. I've actually been looking for something of this sort some time ago, but never managed to find it.
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Ukrainian to English
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| There's an EASY way | Mar 28, 2021 |
Tomasz Sienicki wrote:
There's an easy way of achieving just that, assuming the numbers are supposed to look the same on both sides (source and target).
- Click the sprocket icon over the translation grid and check the “Use regex” checkbox
- Type ^\P{L}*\d\P{L}*$ in the filter field over the source column and press Enter
- Press Ctrl+Shift+A to mark all segments; then Shift+Alt+S to copy source to target; then Ctrl+Shift+Enter to confirm all the segments without committing them to the TM; then Ctrl+L to lock them
Done.
Easy-peasy lol
Does this odd spell require eye of newt or ritualistic dancing in the buff?
| | | | Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 22:48
English to Russian
| But how do you know | May 10, 2021 |
whether 1.5 is a number (as in 1.5kg) or a list item (as in 1.1.... 1.2... 1.3...)?
When you translate from English into Russian for example, '1.5kg' must be '1,5 кг'. While list item number 1.5 must remain the same. Replacing all instances automatically may cause even more troubles. That's why this feature is still not available.
Also 1.5 and 1,500 are not number-only. If you really mean what you write, i.e. number-only segments, there is a button called 'Populate Number-Only Se... See more whether 1.5 is a number (as in 1.5kg) or a list item (as in 1.1.... 1.2... 1.3...)?
When you translate from English into Russian for example, '1.5kg' must be '1,5 кг'. While list item number 1.5 must remain the same. Replacing all instances automatically may cause even more troubles. That's why this feature is still not available.
Also 1.5 and 1,500 are not number-only. If you really mean what you write, i.e. number-only segments, there is a button called 'Populate Number-Only Segments' (Preparation tab). It confirms and locks all number-only segments.
On the other hand, you can easily replace period with comma, if need be, using a regex. It's 2021, and it takes nothing to google that [0-9] = any number. Replace ([0-9]).([0-9]) with $1,$2. That's it.
This regex will filter any number with a period inside (like 1.5 or 1.55 or 11.55, etc.):
^([0-9]+).([0-9]+)$
Where ^ = start of line,
$ = end of line.
If you remove ^ and $, memoQ will show all segments containing such numbers amid other text.
If you need to filter numbers with comma (like 1,500, or 15,00, or 150,0, etc.), just replace . with , in the same regex.
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Why not use the simpler regex:
^\d+$
It can also be easily extended to match decimal numbers, such as 1.23 or even with thousand separators.
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Tomasz Sienicki
Denmark
Local time: 20:48
Member (2007)
Danish to Polish
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| Why not use the simpler regex | May 14, 2021 |
Anthony Rudd wrote:
Why not use the simpler regex:
Because:
1-22
[23]
(3)
4+
!2
3-3/3
~2
6.6.3
^3*5…
4:5
Such strings normally don't require any translation; my solution takes care of them.
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