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Segment Preferred In-context Exact (SPICE) Match

The segment preferred in-context exact (SPICE) match is similar to the basic ICE mechanism. The SPICE match process supports another leverage level that is superior to the basic exact match supported by traditional TM systems. Instead of inferring context information from the surrounding segments and the containing document, the SPICE mechanism derives context explicitly from segment identifier (SID) tags embedded within the document. The SID defines the intended context, and thus the combination of the SID and the source segment text correlates to a specific translation within the TM regardless of the document within which it is embedded.

SPICE matches are global within the defined TM. There can be only one SPICE match candidate for any given segment/SID combination. This is different from the ICE mechanism, which allows for different documents to potentially have different translations for a common block of content. SPICE match usage is optional. System parameters can be configured to indicate whether SPICE matches are preferred over ICE matches.