| Страниц в теме: [1 2] > | Inconsistent term recognition from glossaries Автор темы: Khadhé
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Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Hello colleagues,
I have been experiencing a recurring problem with term recognition with glossaries under WordFast Classic Version 6.03t running on MS Word 2007 (SP3) and Vista Business SP2 :
In order for a term to be recognized, I sometimes have to go up (closing the segment) then down again (re-opening the segment) using ATL-UP ARROW/ ALT- DOWN ARROW to force an other attempt at term recognition from WordFast to finally manage to pick up one or more terms from one o... See more Hello colleagues,
I have been experiencing a recurring problem with term recognition with glossaries under WordFast Classic Version 6.03t running on MS Word 2007 (SP3) and Vista Business SP2 :
In order for a term to be recognized, I sometimes have to go up (closing the segment) then down again (re-opening the segment) using ATL-UP ARROW/ ALT- DOWN ARROW to force an other attempt at term recognition from WordFast to finally manage to pick up one or more terms from one or both of the active glossaries.
This behavior is not consistent, i.e. it may, or may not happen, and I haven't been able to figure what other parameters it may correlate with, except one: glossary sorting and reorganizing. If I do perform that operation on each of the two glossaries I am using, then term recognition will work fine on opening of the next segment. But I can't obviously perform this before each segment opening. It would defeat the purpose. After an organize/sort operation, the erratic behavior can start again as soon as the second segment is opened.
I am usually running 2 glossaries: a small, client specific one, and a global massive one (currently over 27,000 entries but way bellow the stated limit of 250,000 entries per single glossary). QA during translation and QA in companion are both unchecked in Set-up.
Any idea regarding what could be causing this behavior is welcome,
Cheers,
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| | | | | Location of glossaries? | Feb 20, 2013 |
Khadhé wrote:
I have been experiencing a recurring problem with term recognition with glossaries under WordFast Classic Version 6.03t running on MS Word 2007 (SP3) and Vista Business SP2 :
In order for a term to be recognized, I sometimes have to go up (closing the segment) then down again (re-opening the segment) using ATL-UP ARROW/ ALT- DOWN ARROW to force an other attempt at term recognition from WordFast to finally manage to pick up one or more terms from one or both of the active glossaries.
Are your glossaries located on a network drive or in a Dropbox folder? Are they shared with someone else?
| | | | Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы | No, none of that, but... | Feb 20, 2013 |
...now that you mention that, the only thing I can think of is that access to the drive they are on might be slow (the drive being "green", i.e. it does not spin all the time). So, maybe WF gives up if it can not access that drive and scan the glossary on the fly. If this is the case, I am surprised I am not getting an disk access error instead of a seemingly no glossary match behavior.
I will test by copying the glossary to the faster system drive.
Thanks for your ans... See more ...now that you mention that, the only thing I can think of is that access to the drive they are on might be slow (the drive being "green", i.e. it does not spin all the time). So, maybe WF gives up if it can not access that drive and scan the glossary on the fly. If this is the case, I am surprised I am not getting an disk access error instead of a seemingly no glossary match behavior.
I will test by copying the glossary to the faster system drive.
Thanks for your answer.
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| | | | | Did it work? | Feb 25, 2013 |
Khadhé wrote:
I will test by copying the glossary to the faster system drive.
Did relocating your glossaries to the local drive (C:) solve your problem?
In order for terminology recognition to work, Wordfast needs to have access to the glossary index when it opens a new segment. If it has to wait for a sleeping drive to wake up ("green" external drive), or for the index to be synchronized (Dropbox), it won't have access to that file when it needs it. If access is obtained a couple of seconds later, it's too late (for that segment).
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Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы
I tried to relocate the big glossary : it got worse (WF had to check 2 HDs), then both glossaries (no difference).
It's only when I put my document, the TM and both glossaries on the system drive that WF starts behaving normally (consistent terminology recognition from both glossaries)
I usually don't keep any data files on the system drive (I don't use the typical MS generic Documents, Pictures, Video, etc. directories in the Windows user account, and my weekly schedul... See more I tried to relocate the big glossary : it got worse (WF had to check 2 HDs), then both glossaries (no difference).
It's only when I put my document, the TM and both glossaries on the system drive that WF starts behaving normally (consistent terminology recognition from both glossaries)
I usually don't keep any data files on the system drive (I don't use the typical MS generic Documents, Pictures, Video, etc. directories in the Windows user account, and my weekly schedule back up for system drives is not as frequent as for data drives (daily) so I am going to have to juggle around a bit.
Green drive is a nice idea but there are drawbacks... here is one.
thanks for your comment.
EDIT (Feb. 26, 2013) : In fact, I notice today, just one day after implementing the change described above, that even in this configuration, WF keeps missing term recognition, even in the smallest of the 2 glossaries. The missing terms are eventually recognized if WF is forced back to the previous segment, then forward again.
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| | | | Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы | Term recognition still malfunctioning | Feb 27, 2013 |
Unfortunately, term recognition will quite often never happen, despite the term being in one or both glossaries and me trying to go back and forth between segment, as mentioned in my previous post.
This is a major inconvenience since I will then try to enter one or more terms, thinking they are not in any of the open glossaries. When I try to validate the "new" entry (pressing "OK" in the Edit entry Popup), I suppose WF properly checks its glossaries because I will occasionally get... See more Unfortunately, term recognition will quite often never happen, despite the term being in one or both glossaries and me trying to go back and forth between segment, as mentioned in my previous post.
This is a major inconvenience since I will then try to enter one or more terms, thinking they are not in any of the open glossaries. When I try to validate the "new" entry (pressing "OK" in the Edit entry Popup), I suppose WF properly checks its glossaries because I will occasionally get a warning that after all, the term IS actually already there, in one or both glossaries! So I have then to cancel one or both new entries. A major waste of time.
I wonder if anybody else is experiencing this behavior, i.e. if it's inherent to WF or it has anything to do with my set-up/harware.
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| | | | | Sample source segment? | Feb 28, 2013 |
Khadhé wrote:
Unfortunately, term recognition will quite often never happen, despite the term being in one or both glossaries and me trying to go back and forth between segment, as mentioned in my previous post.
This is a major inconvenience since I will then try to enter one or more terms, thinking they are not in any of the open glossaries. When I try to validate the "new" entry (pressing "OK" in the Edit entry Popup), I suppose WF properly checks its glossaries because I will occasionally get a warning that after all, the term IS actually already there, in one or both glossaries! So I have then to cancel one or both new entries. A major waste of time.
Can you post a sample source segment in which this is happening, mentioning what source terms are in the glossaries and what new terms you are adding?
| | | | Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы | I might be the only one experiencing this problem | Feb 28, 2013 |
Dominique,
Thanks for wanting to help or investigate. Terms that are not recognized (despite being in one or both glossaries) are random. Going backward then forward will sometimes "force" the recognition. That's the main symptom. I am not sure what you would be able to infer by knowing a particular term that was not recognized properly despite being in one or both glossaries.
All I am asking at this stage is whether somebody out there has experienced the same type of p... See more Dominique,
Thanks for wanting to help or investigate. Terms that are not recognized (despite being in one or both glossaries) are random. Going backward then forward will sometimes "force" the recognition. That's the main symptom. I am not sure what you would be able to infer by knowing a particular term that was not recognized properly despite being in one or both glossaries.
All I am asking at this stage is whether somebody out there has experienced the same type of problem. If nobody ever experienced that with WF classic, then I will experiment more on my side to see if I can improve the situation. ▲ Collapse
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lestertrad
Local time: 03:00
французский => английский
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| I too am experieincing the problem of failure to recognize glossary terms. | Mar 6, 2013 |
Khadhé wrote:
All I am asking at this stage is whether somebody out there has experienced the same type of problem. If nobody ever experienced that with WF classic, then I will experiment more on my side to see if I can improve the situation.
I have definitely been experiencing this problem of random failure to recognize glossary terms. When the term is preceded or followed by punctuation, its chances of being recognized seem to drop to almost nil.
This thread has been instructive. I have disabled spin-down on the drive where the glossaries are. I will report on whether that helps.
Thanks to both of you for the information.
[Edited at 2013-03-06 13:50 GMT]
| | | | Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы | Let's try to figure out what we have in common! | Mar 6, 2013 |
Thanks for chiming in lestertrad
If we can figure out what is common between our two configs, we might be able to pinpoint where the problem is coming from.
I have described my system details in my first post in this thread.
At this stage, since moving the two active glossaries onto the fast spinning system drive did not change anything, my primary suspect is the glossaries size.
Do you mind posting:
1) your system details? (WF type cla... See more Thanks for chiming in lestertrad
If we can figure out what is common between our two configs, we might be able to pinpoint where the problem is coming from.
I have described my system details in my first post in this thread.
At this stage, since moving the two active glossaries onto the fast spinning system drive did not change anything, my primary suspect is the glossaries size.
Do you mind posting:
1) your system details? (WF type classic or pro and version #; MS Word version; and OS.)
2) Number and size (nb of entries) of active glossaries?
Mines are
1)WordFast Classic Version 6.03t running on MS Word 2007 (SP3) and Vista Business SP2
2)
Glossary #1 : 2027 entries
Glossary #2 : not active
Glossary #3 : 28174 entries ▲ Collapse
| | | | | save the glossary as Unicode | Mar 8, 2013 |
Have you tried to save the glossary as Unicode? Then click in the Terminology tab and reorganize it. Good luck.
| | | | Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы | Already UTF, and reorganizing does not solve the problem | Mar 8, 2013 |
Thanks for the suggestion.
The character format for both glossaries is already the Unicode character set (UTF-8). I switched to that format long ago.
I often reorganize the glossaries but unfortunately, that does not make any difference on the general behavior.
Reorganizing actually just triggers the same thing as going backward then forward: it will force another recognition for the present segment.
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| Unicode vs. UTF-8 | Mar 8, 2013 |
Unicode is Unicode or Unicode LE16
UTF-8 is UTF-8
http://www.condak.net/tmx/wfconverter/cs/00.html
Milan
Khadhé wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
The character format for both glossaries is already the Unicode character set (UTF-8).
| | | | Khadhé
Local time: 18:00
английский => французский
Автор темы | Correct, Unicode LE16 is used but it does not solve the problem | Mar 8, 2013 |
Yes, you're correct. WF probably uses the LE16 to encode unicode. UFT-8 is actually also a unicode version but is designed for the Linux platform.
Anyway, I used the WF "rewrite glossary as unicode" tool for both glossaries. So WF should be able to deal with its own unicode encoding.
| | | | | WFC is using Unicode | Mar 8, 2013 |
1. WF uses the Unicode (LE16)
2. In WFC is no tool to convert UTF-8 to Unicode
3. WFC can "rewrite glossary as unicode" from ANSI (your national Windows code)
4. UTF-8 is for all platform, basicly for HTML
5. Open your file in NotePad, try Save as and you can see your current encoding. Change encoding to Unicode and save.
Milan
Khadhé wrote:
Yes, you're correct. WF probably uses the LE16 to encode unicode. UFT-8 is actually also a unicode version but is designed for the Linux platform.
Anyway, I used the WF "rewrite glossary as unicode" tool for both glossaries. So WF should be able to deal with its own unicode encoding.
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