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Finding inconsistent spellings
Thread poster: Owen Witesman
Owen Witesman
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Oct 3, 2023

Does Trados (or a plugin) have a feature that can help to find inconsistent spellings of individual words? For example, imagine that a word appears 250 times in a text spelled one way and then 2 times spelled another way. Obviously the 2 times are likely to be misspellings. An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count, is a powerful tool for finding errors like this but is very time consuming. Is there a way to do a check like this in a more automated way in Tra... See more
Does Trados (or a plugin) have a feature that can help to find inconsistent spellings of individual words? For example, imagine that a word appears 250 times in a text spelled one way and then 2 times spelled another way. Obviously the 2 times are likely to be misspellings. An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count, is a powerful tool for finding errors like this but is very time consuming. Is there a way to do a check like this in a more automated way in Trados? Or some other tool? Thanks! ▲ Collapse
 
Stepan Konev
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F7? Oct 3, 2023

Owen Witesman wrote:

An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count
What is this? I have never seen anything that fits this description. Can't you use the regular F7 option? Probably you can give an example to clarify your situation?

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Hans Lenting
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Netherlands
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German to Dutch
Macro Oct 3, 2023

Create a bilingual review table, copy the target column to a new document, run this macro: https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/list_spelling_errors_in_document.html
 
Hans Lenting
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Did this answer your question? Oct 6, 2023

Hans Lenting wrote:

Create a bilingual review table, copy the target column to a new document, run this macro: https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/list_spelling_errors_in_document.html


Did you try the suggested solution?


[Edited at 2023-10-06 11:51 GMT]

Jorge Payan
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
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German to Dutch
Output Oct 9, 2023

Just tested the macro and it works fine:

Screen Shot 2023-10-09 at 10.39.59

So where to go from here?

Enhance the macro to process only the target language column.
Make your corrections directly to the generated table.
Enhance the macro to apply the manual corrections to the target language column of the whole bilingual file.
Import this corrected bilingual file in Trados.

Stepan Konev
 
Stanislaw Semczuk
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It has, pretty effective Oct 9, 2023

2022 (perhaps also a few editions earlier) has an advanced search module, where you can apply a REGEX filter on both source and target; this shall solve problem quickly.
If your version does not have it, you can still apply REGEX filter to exclusive either source or target; if you are aware of how misspelled strings look, you may apply REGEX that filters only for the wrong versions in one go.
 
Riccardo Schiaffino
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Use a concordance program Oct 9, 2023

Owen Witesman wrote:

An alphabetical list of every word in a text, accompanied by a frequency count, is a powerful tool for finding errors like this but is very time consuming. Is there a way to do a check like this in a more automated way in Trados? Or some other tool? Thanks!



You can create such a list quickly and easily using a text concordance tool, like the excellent (and free) AntConc AntConc, or the Simple Concordance Program (also free).

The procedure for both programs is similar: you save your translation to a text (.txt) file, open it in the concordance program, and create a word list. Once you have learned the basic usage of the concordance program, the whole process just takes a few minutes.

[Edited at 2023-10-10 00:08 GMT]
 


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