Delete Corpus artef "Export to TM"? Thread poster: Mario Freitas
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Mario Freitas 
Brazil
Local time: 22:44
Member (2014)
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Dear friends,
I have adoubt with MemoQ. I imported dozens of files into my Corpora, aligned them all and exported them all to the TM. these files represent a pretty big volume, so I want to erase them from the Corpora. Since the useful alignment pairs are already exported to the TM and available for reference, I suppose I no longer need the entire files in the Corpus.
Is that correct? Can I erase the Corpus files? Will there be any consequences or will it anyhow affect ... See more Dear friends,
I have adoubt with MemoQ. I imported dozens of files into my Corpora, aligned them all and exported them all to the TM. these files represent a pretty big volume, so I want to erase them from the Corpora. Since the useful alignment pairs are already exported to the TM and available for reference, I suppose I no longer need the entire files in the Corpus.
Is that correct? Can I erase the Corpus files? Will there be any consequences or will it anyhow affect my TM?
TIA for any help. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | make use of the advantages of a corpus | Oct 23, 2014 |
I used to do what you are doing, until I realised that a corpus has two huge advantages over a TM, one of which is context, as you can go straight from a corpus hit into the document it originates from, so no more decontextualised hits.
The second huge advantage is that I used to spend a lot more time over aligning so that it would be just right in the TM. I hardly bother any more, as if there is a misalignment, I can put it right in a matter of seconds in a corpus, or in a matter of hours... See more I used to do what you are doing, until I realised that a corpus has two huge advantages over a TM, one of which is context, as you can go straight from a corpus hit into the document it originates from, so no more decontextualised hits.
The second huge advantage is that I used to spend a lot more time over aligning so that it would be just right in the TM. I hardly bother any more, as if there is a misalignment, I can put it right in a matter of seconds in a corpus, or in a matter of hours in a TM.
So now I export whatever I can from a project to a corpus, rather than the other way round
HTH ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 22:44
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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TOPIC STARTER | Thanks for the tips, Anthony | Oct 23, 2014 |
Anthony Green wrote:
I used to do what you are doing, until I realised that a corpus has two huge advantages over a TM, one of which is context, as you can go straight from a corpus hit into the document it originates from, so no more decontextualised hits.
The second huge advantage is that I used to spend a lot more time over aligning so that it would be just right in the TM. I hardly bother any more, as if there is a misalignment, I can put it right in a matter of seconds in a corpus, or in a matter of hours in a TM.
So now I export whatever I can from a project to a corpus, rather than the other way round
HTH
However, if I had the trouble to fix all the alignment links and exported them to the TM, I don't see why keeping two filed with the same contents, plus the useless and repeated alingments I disconnected on purpose not to send to the TM. I'm thinking about the size of my MemoQ folder.
Regarding the context, when you use Ctrl+K, MemoQ displays the entire segment, so I guess it sorts that out.
And by the way, I haven't done it, yet. I wanted to hear some professional opinions, like yours, before deleting any corpus files.
What do you think?
[Edited at 2014-10-23 22:07 GMT]
| | | | | next time don't do all that work | Oct 24, 2014 |
I would think that if you have a reasonably modern computer that folder size is not really much of an issue.
Next time if I were you I would just align and then leave everything in the corpus during the project, and then re-export from the project TM either to another corpus or to the same one, depending on what proportion of the corpus you have used in the translation.
It would be nce to get someone else's viewpoint. Do you know the memoQ yahoogroup? It is much more active than this... See more I would think that if you have a reasonably modern computer that folder size is not really much of an issue.
Next time if I were you I would just align and then leave everything in the corpus during the project, and then re-export from the project TM either to another corpus or to the same one, depending on what proportion of the corpus you have used in the translation.
It would be nce to get someone else's viewpoint. Do you know the memoQ yahoogroup? It is much more active than this one. ▲ Collapse
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