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About creating translation memories

When you create a translation memory (local or server-based):

  • You can create the new translation memory from scratch.
  • You can base the new translation memory on an existing translation memory (you can edit the settings of the new translation memory before you save it).
  • You can add multiple language pairs to server-based translation memories because they are multilingual.
  • You can use the default language resource settings or select a language resource template. Language resources control the way source document text is segmented ready for translation memory to be applied.
  • You can create custom fields to be stored with each translation unit.

Some of the translation memory settings defined when you create a translation memory can be changed later.

Language resources

When you create a new translation memory, the default language resource settings are applied to the translation memory. If you based the new translation memory on an existing translation memory, the language resource settings in the copy-from translation memory are applied to the new translation memory. You can create a language resource template which would then be available for selection when you create a new translation memory. A language resource template contains language resources for all of the languages you work with.

Custom fields

You can create custom fields during the translation memory creation and assign default values to the fields. If you based the new translation memory on an existing translation memory, the custom fields in the copy-from translation memory are applied to the new translation memory. For server-based translation memories, you can select a field template from the server during translation memory creation. A field template contains a set of custom fields that you can apply to multiple translation memories.

Create TM from Alignment results

You can also create translation memories for importing the translation units generated after aligning the source and target files of an existing translation. For more information, see Aligning Existing Translated Files.