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Specifying excluded segments for QA Checker

Use the QA Checker 3.0 > Segments to Exclude settings to specify which segments will not have any QA Checker verifications performed on them. This allows you to skip segments with a certain match type from verification.

Before you begin

Make sure the QA Checker provider is enabled. To enable QA Checker, go to File > Options > Verification and select the QA Checker 3.0.

About this task

You can choose to exclude all exact or fuzzy matches from the process, or you can exclude translations that have already been confirmed. This means that these segments will not have any QA Checks performed on them.

Procedure

  1. Choose where you want to specify the settings.
    • To specify verification settings for your active project, go to Project Settings.
    • To specify verification settings for your active project but only for a specific language pair, go to Project Settings > [source language] - [target language] language pair.
    • To specify verification settings for all future projects, go to File > Options.
    • To specify verification settings during batch tasks, go to the Projects view or the Files view, select Batch Tasks, choose a batch process and go to the Settings page.
    • To specify verification settings in a project template, create a project template by going to the Projects view selecting Create Project Template from the Ribbon, then specify verification settings in the Project Template Settings dialog. You can also edit an existing project template.
  2. Select Verification > QA Checker 3.0 from the navigation tree.
  3. Select Segments to Exclude from navigation.
  4. Under Segments to Exclude, select or clear the following checkboxes, depending on your needs:
    • Exclude PerfectMatch units - This option excludes locked segments translated by PerfectMatch (based on a previous projects) from the QA check.
    • Exclude exact matches - This option excludes segments translated with a 100% translation memory (TM) match from the QA check.
    • Exclude fuzzy matches down to - This option excludes fuzzy TM-matched segments from the QA check. Use the percentage box to specify a percentage match cut-off point. For example, if you specify a limit of 90%, then segments with a 90-99% match will be included in the check and segments with a 75-89% match will be excluded.
    • Exclude new translations - This option excludes new translations from the QA check. A new translation is created from scratch by a translator and not retrieved from a TM.
    • Exclude repetitions - This option excludes repeated segments. The first repetition is always included in the checks even if you select the Exclude Repetitions option. Once you correct the first repetition, you can then use auto-propagation to update the repetitions.
    • Exclude confirmed translations - This option excludes confirmed translations from the QA check.
    • Exclude locked segment - This option excludes locked segments from the QA check. Segments can be locked and unlocked by right-clicking the segment in the Editor window and selecting Lock Segment or Unlock Segment from the context menu.
    • Exclude target segment identical to source - This option excludes target segments that have the same text as their source segments from the QA Check. When this option is selected and the source and target segments are identical, no QA checks are performed and no verification messages are displayed for this type of segment pair.
    • Check only segments which are in following contexts (one per line) - If you want to limit which segments are checked based on the document structure location, select this checkbox and enter each structure element on a separate line. The document structure location of each segment is displayed in Document Structure column in the Editor window. For example, if you only want to check segments that are part of a paragraph or are headings, you would type:

      Paragraph

      Heading

  5. Under String based exclusions (one per line), type the strings you want to exclude from the QA check, each string on one line, and then select or clear the checkboxes:
    • Apply exclusion list to search for not translated segments
    • Apply exclusion list to search for target segments identical to source
    • Ignore case
    • Exclusions use regular expressions
  6. Select the Report all non-excluded segments checkbox, if you want to see a list of all segments that were included in the check, displayed in the Messages window when the check is complete.
    For example, select all of the Exclude options apart from Exclude new translations. Now select the Report all non-excluded segments option and perform the QA check. A list of all new segments will be displayed in the Messages window because these were the only segments not excluded. Next to this check on the right-hand side is a drop-down list with three options: Error, Warning and Note. Select what severity you want to apply if that check finds errors.