Looking for a free translation memory "reader" Thread poster: Clémence Delmas
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Dear colleagues, I am looking for a tool that could present a bilingual memory translation or Excel file like in linguee. My data are in Excel and I would like non translators to be able to do full text searches. The results should be displayed in a user friendly way. Would anybody have ideas? Thanks in advance | | |
Mark Local time: 19:47 Italian to English The freeware version (2.9) of Xbench? | Oct 12, 2015 |
It doesn't do Excel, but it does do many "bilingual memory translation" formats.
[Edited at 2015-10-12 15:28 GMT] | | |
Mark Local time: 19:47 Italian to English
Plus, you should be able to export your Excel in .csv format, which it does handle. | | |
My stock answer to this question is: the old, free version of xbench by default, and TMLookup if your files are extremely large (several million TUs).
[Edited at 2015-10-13 12:37 GMT] | |
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FarkasAndras wrote: My stock answer to this question is: the old, free version of xbench by default, and lf aligner if your files are extremely large (several million TUs). How about TMLoookup? Wouldn’t it qualify as a "TM reader" (better than LF Aligner), which is what the original poster wanted? | | |
Of course I meant TMLookup, I had a brain fart. I corrected my post above. | | |
dingrui357 China Local time: 01:47 German to Chinese Heartsome TMX Editor | Oct 13, 2015 |
Use Heartsome TMX Editor. | | |
editor vs. concordancer | Oct 14, 2015 |
dingrui357 wrote: Use Heartsome TMX Editor. Yes, Heartsome TMX Editor can be used to convert an Excel table into a TMX memory, as explained here. However, the original poster wanted something that would let "non translators do full text searches" and "display results in a user friendly way". Heartsome TMX Editor isn’t optimal for that, because well, it’s an editor, not a concordancer. TMLookup would be a better choice IMO. | |
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A cross-platform alternative | Oct 14, 2015 |
AntPConc But if your non-translator still uses Windows, TMLookup is probably the better choice. Cheers, Hans | | |
Mark Local time: 19:47 Italian to English
AntPConc looks nice, but I can’t see what formats it supports, even from the help file. It talks about building a concordance? Sounds a bit labour-intensive. | | |
Clémence Delmas Switzerland Local time: 19:47 German to French + ... TOPIC STARTER
Thank you all for these suggestions! I will try TMLookup first and see if my colleagues find it easy to use. Have a nice day! | | |
Mark Dobson wrote: but I can’t see what formats it supports Plain text only, I'm afraid. TMLookup can also handle TMX. You can change the file extension of a TMX file into .txt, so AntPConc can handle it, but it won't look particularly nice. I think Clémence made the right decision. I don't use AntPConc myself, but I do use AntConc for word frequencies, keywords, and n-grams. Also plain text only. Cheers, Hans | | |