MultiTrans can automatically identify documents that may be poorly aligned within your existing TextBases. If, for example, a pair of documents is too different in size, it is unlikely these documents are actually equivalents (hence, unlikely that they will be well aligned).
Procedure
- Open the TextBase you wish to validate. If you have more than one TextBase open, select the appropriate TextBase from the TextBases tab of the TextBase Search window.
- From the TextBase Search menu, select Validate Alignments....
- A window opens allowing you to select one or both or the following checkboxes:
- Segment Count Criterion: select this option to identify documents where the difference in number of segments between the source and target documents is significant, signifying a likelihood that the documents are not equivalents.
- Document pair contains *.PRN documents: select this option to identify documents where at least one document was originally an Excel 2003 or earlier document, from a TextBase built in an early version of MultiTrans. There were a number of potential conversion issues in that situation, so these documents may be worth validating.
- Once you have selected the desired options, click OK.
Your TextBase is scanned and the Alignment Validator Report window opens with a list of potentially problematic document pairs, with messages such as Documents differ too much in size.
- Click Save Report to save this report for later reuse.
- Click Close to close the report.