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(Outer) punctuation repair (enabled by default)

Overview

DescriptionAttempts to correct boundary punctuation differences.
DefaultEnabled
Supported Attributestarget_languages

enabled

Details

WorldServer TM currently supports punctuation repairs, but they are very limited, and they are not appropriate for certain locale-to-locale translations. This repair assumes that the two locales involved contain the same punctuation symbols and that they are used in the same way. The current support for punctuation repair attempts to align the beginning and ending punctuation of the source and target of the TM match with that of the lookup segment.
In the following example, the beginning and ending punctuations of the lookup segment replace those from the source and target.
Lookup Segment: ‘This is boring!’
Source Segment: This game is boring.
Target Segment: This seems to be something.
Repaired Source Segment: ‘This game is boring!’
Repaired Target Segment: ‘This seems to be something!’

Recommendation

This repair is not appropriate for all source-to-target locale combinations. However, the implementation provides an additional safeguard, which allows only the outer punctuations to be repaired in the cases where the outer punctuations match for the source and target text of the TM match.