memoQuickie: terminology QA

To check terminology in your work most effectively with memoQ's QA module,

• create a custom QA profile with the desired settings;





• create a QA termbase with appropriate wildcards and only the terms to check, including forbidden terms (disable all other termbases for the QA run);





• select Operations > Run QA... and go to the tab for resolving errors and warnings, leaving your document or view open;





• for efficiency's sake, sort the results list alphabetically by clicking the description header and work through the list systematically until all problems are resolved.

To look up terms, go to the document/view tab; the filters can be used there to fix many entries at once. 

Refine your termbase iteratively by adding or editing terms as you work.

This process is also particularly helpful for QA and editing of jobs performed by multiple translators to ensure absolute consistency with prescribed terminology.

memoQuickie: prefix matching for terms

Prefix matching is a powerful memoQ termbase feature which adds lookup flexibility for many languages. Possible settings are

• Yes - matches any prefix occurrence
• No - exact match only
• 50% minimum
• Custom - for use with wildcards (pipe character and asterisk)

Defaults can be defined when creating the termbase. Below is an example of four term entries followed and segments with various matches (displayed to the right of the segments). Note how the match patterns fit the definitions above.

 

Note that in Segment 7, only one match for Mann is found, the one with prefix matching set to "Yes", because Mann has fewer than 50% of the characters of Mannequin. In Segment 3, only the entry with the asterisk wildcard at the end matches. Why are there not more matches (like Mann in Segments 1, 2, 3 and 6)? memoQ looks for the longest possible match in the termbase.