Comments on Translation Tribulations: Translation tool concordances compared

Thank you for your good comment about LogiTerm Pro...

2012-02-24T19:09:11.136+01:00

Thank you for your good comment about LogiTerm Pro.

Éric Théberge
DÉVELOPPEMENT DES AFFAIRES/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Terminotix inc.

mmmh... I suspect that CAT tools are simply the le...

2012-01-27T02:33:53.404+01:00

mmmh...
I suspect that CAT tools are simply the less suitable tools for concordance searches

using rather Logiterm Pro (last release) with my zillions of TUs I have more results in just a couple of minutes

clearly, after I must waste some clik/time for a copy-paste process (unless I use MS Word), but anyway Logiterm Pro is still unrivalled in that

That bit about removing duplicates from termbases ...

2012-01-12T19:43:39.460+01:00

That bit about removing duplicates from termbases is more important than ever now that the term extraction function has been introduced. It is far too easy to load up the termbase with duplicates now. Actually, a whole suite of maintenance functions for TMs and termbases are desperatly needed; the world can't rely forever on the free Okapi tools. I don't even think they are maintained any more.

I have been asking the guys/girls at memoQ to chan...

2012-01-12T18:19:19.674+01:00

I have been asking the guys/girls at memoQ to change the design of the memoQ concordance window for quite a while (in the memoQ list and via numerous Support feature requests), and they keep promising that they are going to change it and/or offer us an 'alternative table-like display', but so far it has remained exactly the same.

See e.g.:

- [Gabor:] 'Ultimately, memoQ's concordance window will have an alternative two-column layout, as you mention below. That will not happen in 4.5 though.' [Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:34 pm] &

- 'Hello Michael, It's still coming. :) Gergely' [Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:22 pm]

and...

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/memoQ/messages/15784?threaded=1&m=e&var=1&tidx=1
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/memoQ/message/21374
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/memoQ/message/16404
http://wordbook.nl/screenshots/Concordance.jpg

Let's hope it finally makes it into one of the next versions or editions!

I think it's time Kilgray stop adding cool new features and put some serious work into improving various aspects of the UI that we have been begging them to fix/change for a long time already (such as fixing the strange old-fashioned concordance window), and addressing basic missing functionality such as making it possible to REMOVE DUPLICATES FROM OUR %$#*!! term bases!!!

Michael

Thanks for taking the time to carry out this compa...

2012-01-11T13:18:42.699+01:00

Thanks for taking the time to carry out this comparison, Kevin. The superior concordance function is really the only thing that I miss from my Trados Classic. And the weird presentation of the search term in memoQ's function takes a lot of getting used to.

You and a lot of other people, Rob. That's one...

2012-01-09T18:59:37.771+01:00

You and a lot of other people, Rob. That's one of the top wishes I have heard for a while. A little dropdown checkbox with all the active TMs and corpora, similar to the mechanism for termbase write selections, would be a great delight. The insertion functions are the most useful I have seen anywhere. But I do think that the visual representation of the info could be improved. Add highlighting instead of aligning the key word/phrase at the very least.

An interesting comparison, Kevin. I'm mostly v...

2012-01-09T18:53:42.496+01:00

An interesting comparison, Kevin. I'm mostly very happy with memoQ's concordance capability, though there is one enhancement I would dearly love: the ability to filter and/or order concordance hits by TM.