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What exactly is the difference between Repetitions and Exact Matches when I'm doing an analysis without a TM?
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Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 18:34 English to Russian
Reps vs. Matches
Oct 8, 2021
Repetitions refer to identical segments in a file (may be not translated yet), when an active segment equals one or more segments within the file(s). Exact Matches refer to identical segments in a TM (translated only), when an active segment equals a segment stored in TM. If it is not zero, you have some tmx file in the project TM directory.
[Edited at 2021-10-08 14:18 GMT]
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I do have some kind of auto-generated .tmx file there
Oct 8, 2021
As it turns out, I do have a .tmx file in the tm directory. It's named after the source file and ends with _alt.tmx. Seems like it's auto-generated because I certainly didn't put it there (didn't specify the TM or MemSource login credentials). The question is then, where does it come from? And can I rely on the reported Repetitions count when such a file is present?
Stepan Konev wrote:
Repetitions refer to identical segments in a file (may be not translated yet), when an active segment equals one or more segments within the file(s). Exact Matches refer to identical segments in a TM (translated only), when an active segment equals a segment stored in TM. If it is not zero, you have some tmx file in the project TM directory.
[Edited at 2021-10-08 14:18 GMT]
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Stepan Konev Russian Federation Local time: 18:34 English to Russian
Not an OT user
Oct 8, 2021
Unfortunately, I don't use OT on a regular basis. As far as I know esperantisto has something to do with OT development. Hope he comes across this thread sooner or later...
[Edited at 2021-10-08 14:49 GMT]
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 17:34 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
@Artem
Oct 8, 2021
Artem Vakhitov wrote: As it turns out, I do have a .tmx file in the tm directory. It's named after the source file and ends with _alt.tmx. Seems like it's auto-generated because I certainly didn't put it there (didn't specify the TM or MemSource login credentials). The question is then, where does it come from?
These segments come from within the XLIFF file. See also my post here: https://www.proz.com/forum/xtm_cloud_support/339134-working_offline_memoq_vs_trados.html These matches are not repetitions -- they are exact or fuzzy matches against the translations that are hidden inside the XLIFF file (open the XLIFF file in Notepad and look for "alt-trans"). So, you can just add up all the non-"repetition" counts (including fuzzy and exact) to see the non-repetitions.
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Thanks for clarification Samuel. Hard to find any mentions of this anywhere else, so this is valuable. By opening the .tmx file in Notepad++, I can indeed see the "alt-trans" units with the user ID "FromAlternate!".
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Artem Vakhitov wrote: As it turns out, I do have a .tmx file in the tm directory. It's named after the source file and ends with _alt.tmx. Seems like it's auto-generated because I certainly didn't put it there (didn't specify the TM or MemSource login credentials). The question is then, where does it come from?
These segments come from within the XLIFF file. See also my post here: https://www.proz.com/forum/xtm_cloud_support/339134-working_offline_memoq_vs_trados.html These matches are not repetitions -- they are exact or fuzzy matches against the translations that are hidden inside the XLIFF file (open the XLIFF file in Notepad and look for "alt-trans"). So, you can just add up all the non-"repetition" counts (including fuzzy and exact) to see the non-repetitions.
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