User manual SYSTRAN SYSTRAN 7

[. . . ] SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide i Table of Contents Chapter 1: SYSTRAN Desktop 7 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SYSTRAN Desktop 7 Products Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Special Terms Used in this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Acronyms (in most cases) should be entered in uppercase (row 3). UD Entry Example English car to jump CAP French voiture sauter PAC Spanish coche saltar PAC German Wagen springen GAP The software will interpret the entry and create a target version that corresponds to the plural, gender, and other characteristics of the source text. Use of Uppercase Letters Uppercase letters should be used only when they are consistent with their native format. Otherwise, the software interprets the uppercase as an additional linguistic clue. The use of uppercase in most languages is an indicator of proper nouns and acronyms. In English, for example, entries should be in lowercase unless they are proper nouns (row 1), acronyms (row 4), nationalities (row 2), days, or titles. In German, uppercase is required when coding a noun (row 3). You should not enter a term in uppercase if it can appear in lowercase in some text. UD Entry Example This example shows the English entry in uppercase to tell the translation engine to use uppercase in the translation. Entries must be in their natural form and, since in English nationalities and languages are always in uppercase, and they must be entered in the dictionary in uppercase. English John Smith Majorcan French Jean Dupont Mallorquin Spanish Juan Gomez mallorquín German Johann Meier mallorquinisch 202 SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide English car UN French voiture ONU Spanish coche ONU German Wagen UNO Translation Example First Coding Source Text (Spanish) No hablo mallorquín Spanish mallorquín English majorcan Target Text (English) I do not speak majorcan. Enriched Coding No hablo mallorquín mallorquín Majorcan I do not speak Majorcan Simple and Compound Entries You can enter simple words or compounds (multiword terms) into a UD for the same term, depending on how the term should be translated in each target language. The natural (simplest) form of the entry should be used instead of the inflected form. For compound terms, IntuitiveCoding determines the syntactic structure of the entry and automatically predicts an agreement pattern within the entries (for instance for adjective-noun entries in French/Spanish translation). UD Entry Example English watering can black and white gastro-enterology French arrosoir noir et blanc gastro-entérologie Spanish regadera blanco y negro gastro-enterología German Gießkanne schwarzweiß Gastro-Enterologie Intuitive Clues IntuitiveCoding uses common intuitive clues to analyze dictionary entries. These clues are not required, but their presence improves the quality of the coding. These types of IntuitiveCoding entries include specifying the gender of appropriate article, use of singular and plural, and separable particles. For example: In most languages, the use of an article specifies that the entry is a noun. In English, the particle "to" implies that the entry is a verb. A reflexive pronoun can be used together with a verbal entry when relevant (in French: s'assurer, in Spanish: asegurarse, in German: sich vergewissern) SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide 203 UD Entry Example English a chestnut to make sure to taste French un marron s'assurer goûter Spanish una castaña asegurarse probar German eine Kastanie sich vergewissern probieren Translation Example First Coding Source Text (English) I would like to taste the dish English taste French goûter Target Text (French) Je voudrais au goûter le plat. Enriched Coding I would like to taste the dish to taste goûter Je voudrais goûter le plat. Specifying the Gender of Appropriate Articles In most languages, use of a determiner for nouns is an easy way to set the gender for the entry. In English, specifying the indefinite article ensures that the appropriate choice between "a" and "an" will be made by the translation software. UD Entry Example English a user an unusual problem a guide French un utilisateur une difficulté particulière un guide Spanish usuario un problema poco común una guía German ein Nutzer ein spezielles Problem ein Handbuch Translation Example First Coding Source Text (English) Don't forget to bring the tourist guides with you. English guide Spanish guía Target Text (Spanish) No olvidar traer los guías turísticos con usted. Enriched Coding Don't forget to bring the tourist guides with you. a guide una guía No olvidar traer las guías turísticas con usted. 204 SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide Translation Example First Coding Source Text (Spanish) Un código del usuario debe incluir una cifra. Spanish código del usuario English user code Target Text (English) An user code must include a number. Enriched Coding Un código del usuario debe incluir una cifra. código del usuario a user code A user code must include a number. Use of Singular and Plural By default, the natural form of a noun is singular. [. . . ] 228 Translation Memory Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Translation Memory Review pane . . . 224, 228 Translation Project File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Transliteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Two Single-CD/DVD Package Products. . . . [. . . ]