SDL Trados: Two TMs for the Price of One
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To use your SDL Trados translation memory (TM) for translating in both directions, you need to create a duplicate TM with the reversed language order. You can do it easily in three steps with Translator's Workbench. Here is how you do it.
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A “both-way” TMwith SDL Trados?
How to get two TMsfor the price of one
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To use your TM for translatingin and from both languages,you need to reversethe translation direction.
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As Trados TMs work only in one direction(source language -> target language),the obvious solution would beto swap source and target.
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Here is how you do it.
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Step 1.
Open the TM you want to use for translating in the opposite directionand export TM data from Trados Workbench.
E.g. German -> Russian
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For convenience’s sake you can use .txt format.(You can always open and check the .txt file with TextPad or MS Word.)Pay attention to the sequence of source and target segments:<Seg L=DE-DE>...
<Seg L=RU-RU>...
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Step 2.
Create a new TM.
Make sure to swap the source and target languages(Russian -> German).
(You can also use the existing TMwith source and target languages as required.)
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Step 3.
Import the TM data.
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You can also export the new TM data and check the segments in the new .txt file:<Seg L=RU-RU>...
<Seg L=DE-DE>...
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That’s it.
