TM = computer-assisted translation(course)

（Edited by freelance Chinese translator li – English to Chinese or Chinese to English translation services）

• A translation memory is a searchable collection of translation units
• A translation unit consists of the following:
Source Segment Target Segment Housekeeping Data*

TM Stage 1: Filtering
What needs to be translated here?
The TM preprocessor removes and saves formatting codes and then presents the translation segments to the translator.
Raw file Filtered output


TM Stage 2: Segmentation
• probability of recurrence of linguistic units is inversely proportional to length
• an intermediate length is likely to yield the largest number of useful matches
• for an efficient algorithm, segment boundaries must be automatically detectable, so
TM SYSTEMS BREAK SEGMENTS AT SENTENCE BOUNDARIES OR END-OF-LINE
CHARACTERS