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1. In August this reviewer began a discussion of the features offered by the translation memory tool D ja Vu X DVX Professional The segment covered how to get started with a project the translation editing work environment keyboard shortcuts D j Vu X Professional A Review of Version 7 5 Part Il By Naomi de Moraes DVX offer e Is DVX stable will it crash or worse yet crash my PC This article is one in a series of translation tool reviews and does not represent an endorsement by ATA All opinions are solely those of the author One of DVX s best features is its automatic terminology lookup and how to use DVX when you work with others who do not have it on their system This month readers will learn about some of the more advanced fea tures in DVX The following questions will be addressed e Is the terminology database and translation memory database well integrated with the DVX trans lating environment e What file formats and other tools can DVX work with e What quality control features does The ATA Chronicle m September 2007 see the June and July articles Taking the Plunge for a discussion of tool types and which are best for which situations Integration of the Terminology Database with the DVX Translating Environment Automatic Terminology Lookup One of DVX s best features is its automatic terminology lookup This function parses all the words in the s2. Chronicle m September 2007 Figure 6 D j Vu X Alignment Wizard Correct VEAGA ha raarve die Dour ade aa mvenen Alignment Yo need merae Bhat the source snd beget tembences align correctly 3 A Reserva de Dourados ED posni aprasii 15 000 felici ern 3 560 hectares ondi conva Deurades Taped i cortada ao main pela estrada eetadual cut A une asiat dias cidades al m de eetar somenis a 100 kri da fontera como Parag Estando enire ligares a nia popula o je caracteniza por estar enire daas calturas a indigena a ocidental Original text is missing a space after the period causing misalignment bagether a eee fua rasai ya cht Ceca ach ti The Dourades Reservation DE i heme to apprommately 5 000 Brachane on 3 560 hectares where the Chum ati Eaiowd and Mandeva and the Ansak Terena inbes ive prosimte half of ihi p anie under 20 WR The source sentence was broken in tee which also causes misalignment an eee J _Mawe Down in which they were originally added to the TM for a given project Unwanted TM entries can be removed from the database using the AutoSearch window right click then delete or by using a separate sub program to edit the database Compatible File Formats and Tools DVX can import many different file types including MS Office 2007 docu ments on Windows Vista RTF HTML SGML XML FrameMaker PageMaker OpenOffice 2 0 QuarkXPress Adobe InDe
3. Portuguesa www flip pt French Antidote RX www druide com Spanish El Corrector www documens com German Duden Korrektor www duden de produkte index php nid 83 English StyleWriter Wwww writersupercenter com stylewriter index htm I have not used the programs mentioned above except for FLiP so please let me know if they are useful or if there is a good program for your language so I can mention it in a future review Please con tact me at articles justright com br undo button older versions did not have this DVX also lets you down load free program updates although some updates have had more bugs than others There have been times when DVX has crashed but I have never lost any data and it has never failed to export a file it imported Every single translation environment program that I have ever used has crashed some more than others DVX does let you back up project files as insurance against hard drive crashes viruses etc Like many environment tools DVX has been known to balk when asked to import large files with many images The only option has been to remove the images before importing then paste them back into the transla tion Formatting almost always comes out as expected unless two tags are reversed e g the unbold tag comes before the bold tag with the entire remainder of the file exported as bold I have not had much luck when working with an MS Word file that contains inter
4. ecog nizes that the word that changed is in the database and automatically assem bles the translation for the new source segment DVX can also assemble target segments from bits and pieces taken from the different databases if configured but this is not very useful when the source and target languages have different word order rules Note that the window in the bottom right corner of Figure 4 shows the words in the new source text that are different from the previous translation for easy recognition in red and with strike DVX s quality control features can help you maintain consistent terminology after the translation is complete export terms to these and other formats See the DVX site for more information DVX Professional the version reviewed here lets you use two TDs while working on a project and define read write privileges for each DVX also provides a separate sub applica tion for editing the TD but you can edit entries in the AutoSearch window by right clicking on them Integration of the Translation Memory Database with the Translating Environment DVX has a special feature called Assemble For example in Figure 4 on page 36 the sentence to be trans lated differs from a sentence already translated by just one word revers o in the prior translation revoga o in through font One weakness of DVX is that it does not show number and formatting code changes clearly or rather it does not highl
5. ight them at all Figure 5 on page 36 shows an example in which the only difference between the source text and the text stored in the TM has to do with numbers which DVX will automatically assemble for you A tiny number in the bottom right corner indicates that the match is not 100 but you must read the two source seg ments in their entirety to figure out what changed I find this extremely frustrating since I feel it would be very helpful for DVX to highlight the num bers that have changed Sometimes DVX does not find things I think it should per 35 Figure 4 D j Vu X environment showing automatic assembly dI da oct d a mH Aha tH ho wO E thi Sins Trotamento no H Sigs G Lipil S00 2 1 Finance 2 AAA eae retested eS E e TE E hii dete m 220 dehi Fipra 1 9 Ciclo de vilade uma reres E 194 p di ae d 2h00 2h 3d h Sits Tibane ne BE Deke Bebs Asrin ea a a a CE EEEL TA 2 Ge Git yemi e Tendon poat Lexon Lers Toot window Heb Mota kimie dee iaemis i ME O SES BA O SIKS itarmimision dearli 1 Hoa Wma de 221 ecko de maam SIRS O E Csali ke Beagh Grerratrebrsbert 21 am Lip la o Finamen 1 E Financial settioment 1 Limie para 211 denkin de Keversces D Bemiine for retuming reversals poors by frotessedes pele SIRS em H SES on dH a Fiianiial satiksmei 271 2 dzim z di d Hpm tam eam 10 pn 930 am SBS Treatment by SS 1 for pe
6. l steps You can also add terms to the TD in a similar manner by selecting the two terms in the source and target columns and typing F11 This causes the window shown in Figure 3 to appear DVX fills in the context sentence auto matically and you can modify the term attributes or ignore them Building a Source language Lexicon Another handy feature of DVX is the ability to build a source language lexicon automatically DVX will search the source documents for recurring terms and provide a complete list This is helpful for defining terminology in advance when working with colleagues on a project or if you like to do all your research first Note that this feature is a simple text parser It includes every single word and word combination with no attempt to recognize what a translator would consider a term Sorting according to the number of occurrences and the number of words per term helps reduce the list to a manageable size You can also import terminology from other formats including tab comma delimited files MS Access The ATA Chronicle m September 2007 and MS Excel A wizard an interactive help utility leads you through the process The DVX user manual explains how to export MultiTerm databases an SDL International product so they can then be imported by DVX It can also the new source text The word revo gacdo and its translation are also in the database probably because it was a title in the document DVX r
7. nal links or links to websites These do not usually appear correctly after export so they must be checked manually Miscellaneous One feature of DVX that I miss most when using some other environ ment tools is having statistics on how many words in the source text I have translated I often work on large proj ects and pace myself by defining word goals for each day so I do not get behind DVX helps me keep track with the word count feature Ctrl W Different D j Vu X Versions DVX has several different versions with varying prices and a free version called DVX Editor This free version works only on satellite files created by the most expensive version Workgroup and does not contain most of the features that make DVX useful There is also a standard version listed on www atril com for 668 but it does not have AutoSearch AutoPropagate or Auto Assemble In my experience D ja Vu X Professional 7 5 1 349 on www atril com is a good stable and well rounded environment tool References D ja Vu X Professional Version 7 5 302 www atril com FLIP 5 Ferramentas para a L ngua Portuguesa www flip pt Gw The ATA Chronicle m September 2007
8. oduct names company names or anything for which you might create an AutoText entry in MS Another nice DVX feature is the ease with which terms can be entered into the terminology database or lexicon case definitions and description are both very common headers titles so I have many identical entries in my TM The only question is why DVX needs to show them all I would think that the program would be able to recog nize identical entries These extra entries could be removed manually but I rarely have the time to do this when working Entering Terms A very nice feature Word For example in Figure 1 I had added the term insured vehicle to the lexicon I do not need this entry to help me remember the term but typing Ctrl 8 is much quicker than typing insured vehicle 500 times in an auto insurance contract The lexicon is also handy when a specific client wants you to use one particular term that you normally do not use You can add the term to that project s lexicon and you will not even The ATA Chronicle m September 2007 Figure 3 D j Vu X Add Term Pair window Cit 2713H __ teres see it when working on projects for other clients Another advantage is that to add a term and its translation to the lexicon you just select the term in each language on the screen and click on the Add Pair to Lexicon button or else use the keyboard shortcut to add it to the lexicon with no additiona
9. ource text and looks for them in the terminology database TD the trans lation memory TM and the project lexicon The results are numbered and color coded by source as shown in Figure 1 on page 34 You can then insert a word or phrase from the results into your translation by typing Ctrl plus the number that appears next to the entry For example typing Ctrl 8 from the results listed in Figure 1 would insert the phrase insured vehicle One weakness of this feature is the inability to change the case of the word to be inserted For example in Figure 1 typing Ctrl 6 would insert the word PREMIUM I would then need to select the word and hit the key combination Shift F3 twice in order to have the word appear in lowercase letters Therefore it would be just as fast to type premium in lowercase let ters However having the word appear on the screen is a nice reminder in case my memory fails Note that DVX does not mark the source text in the left column in any way to show that the terminology is in the databases You must glance over at the AutoSearch window and some times I forget to look Fortunately DVX s quality control features dis cussed here can help you maintain consistent terminology after the trans lation is complete 33 Figure 1 D j Vu X environment showing automatic terminology lookup So ce pi pee es ert ga eet pee Ue eet Wed pep Moca eie l repara de wdro de velco segurada pii
10. ra briea laeran e irararoy domene new canoe de dance o cheese poa meray No Thi matches for entire segment in thig h example Figure 2 D j Vu X AutoSearch window showing an excessive number of matches 34 Margo 2007 ir Bami 2007 CONDIDOES GERAIS DE CLAUSOLA DE CEHERAL PROVISIONS Fok THE Wihibow VEGS GLASS CLAUSE Margo 2007 E March 2007 Pie Pisica G Bam Fian eo D Medie eetbaar is deaa china E p LA tig ve thia clean anial parpetend af th pagemienio do reperio primes Are gnide a mapedive Marasiced the pephiosarnt prom andor reper of tie window glass af the need vehicle wundueld door minra and rear wredow in the rent of damage masket is then iJi Fuzzy Lookup You can tell DVX to use fuzzy terminology searching which is helpful for languages with some morphology but I doubt it would work very well for languages with many suffixes or prefixes like Hungarian Unfortunately you can sometimes end up with far too many options as shown in Figure 2 In this mi E E PR T PREMILA a a ekio segurado 4 insured vehicle ldr bay dma chen Ewckeivity al myn IRE dhe Jie A T beta offered by DVX is the ease with which terms can be entered into the TD or lexicon The lexicon is a feature I have seen only in DVX and it allows you to create a TD that is specific to the project you are working on This is great for frequently repeated terms such as pr
11. sign Trados Word RTF files Trados TagEditor files TMX and var ious programming formats See the DVX website for more details You can often translate these file types without having the program that created them but the formatting may come out funny This is because one language occupies more space than the other and is not due to any error on the part of the tool Therefore I would not recommend sending the exported files without opening them and looking them over The ATA Chronicle m September 2007 in their native program unless the client specifically states that he will do the formatting for you DVX can import pre processed SDL Trados RTF DOC files and SDL Trados TagEditor files even if you do not have SDL Trados Of course someone needs to pre process the files for you Just be sure to read the manual carefully before you import the files because it is a bit tricky I just wish DVX could import a regular MS Word file and output an SDL Trados file when clients request one Like most tools DVX has an internal alignment tool that will let you align translations done outside the tool and add them to the TM You must tweak the alignment a bit to make everything fit but the interface is rela tively simple as shown in Figure 6 You can insert the cursor anywhere in the source or target text to break up segments when necessary The example text in Figure 6 is one where the punctuation and style in the two languages
12. ters executed by 10 pm ond 2 for retums execubed between 10 pm on d and 10 pm on el Figure L Like cpl of a reser 194 LFE CYCLE OF A REVOCATION BANSI BAIE E Tool inserts match replacing translation of old word with translation of new word sacembly nd ener easa scone inw FO AS tae F aina aon a Thi os araon rary be provediod boih ie bm rindai mi Ba shred mhii on o m iures Fardi haps because only a part of the sen tence is exactly the same or the codes are different You can select the text in the source cell and click on Scan Ctrl S to look up that text in the entire TM This will call up another window with the closest occurrences which you can then choose to insert either in whole or in part Most if not all envi 36 ronment tools have this feature DVX can import and export TMs from to many other formats including the standard exchange format TMX It also propagates translations of seg ments within a given project which are marked as such and can thus be relied upon more than a segment from another older source file stored in the database The professional version of DVX lets you use two different data bases and control read write permis sions for each separately TMs are automatically bi directional so if you translate in both directions in a lan guage pair you can use just one data base However you can tell DVX to use translations only in the direction The ATA
13. were very different Note that you can also join and split seg ments in the translating environment Quality Assurance DVX has some interesting quality assurance features in addition to spell check Even the spell check feature allows you to use the built in dictionary or the MS Word spelling dictionaries Unfortunately I have found that the built in dictionary is weak when it comes to Portuguese so I have a special program for checking Portuguese grammar called FLiP The program has special spelling dictionaries and is inte grated into the MS Word interface so it takes over MS Word s spelling and grammar check FLiP does not work with DVX so I export my translations into external view see the first part of this review in the August issue to take advantage of this tool or similar tools for other languages An additional quality assurance feature checks that numbers in the source text also appear in the transla tion and that terminology 37 D ja Vu X Professional A Review of Version 7 5 Part Il present in the source text and found in the lexicon or TD is translated according to the lexicon TD entries I have found that checking terminology against the TD is not very useful unless I use a special TD for the project great for software or computer manuals or unless I check just against the project lexicon The DVX feature not only marks the cells where it finds discrepan cies but it even tells you wh
14. y they are marked in a comment DVX also has a great feature that searches for duplicate source sentences in a project with different translations When reviewing text if you change the translation of a repeated source seg ment you might not realize you need to change the translation in identical seg ments for consistency DVX helps you find these instances One quality assurance feature I find rather annoying is that DVX will not let you export the translation even to external view unless all the cells are filled in Sometimes I like to export a translation and look it over in a different program before it is complete or use the FLiP tool mentioned above especially when it is a very large project In these cases you can either use the populate function to populate the empty cells with the source text on a backup copy since this action cannot be undone or break the large file into smaller files before importing them into DVX I would not mind if DVX made me close two warning windows before letting me export a file that has not been translated completely since at least then I would be able to share my partially translated file with colleagues editors who do not have DVX Stability One difference between DVX and some other tools is that there is no Save button Every segment is saved as you type Thankfully there is an 38 Grammar and Spell Check Software FLiP 5 Ferramentas para a Lingua
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