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Improving termbase search results

Trados Studio performs a termbase search when a segment becomes the active row or you can choose to manually perform a termbase search. Settings are available to change what results are returned and also change the way that the termbase is searched to improve performance.

Procedure

  1. Choose where you want to modify the termbase search settings:
    • For all future projects: File > Options > Language Pairs > All Language Pairs > Termbases > Search Settings.
    • For the current project: Project Settings > Language Pairs > All Language Pairs > Termbases > Search Settings.
  2. Under Search Settings, specify the following:
    • Select Show recognized terms with no available translation if you want Trados Studio to display a recognized term even if the term does not have a translation in the termbase. You may want to do this if you want to add the translated term to the termbase.
    • Changing the minimum match value, the search depth and the termrepetition threshold will increase or decrease the quantity of results returned.
    • Setting the Display synonyms separately option to true will cause synonym terms to appear in Term Recognition. A synonym refers to multiple terms defined on the same language within the same entry, and therefore sharing the same entry ID.
  3. If you have multiple termbases, define the order in which they are searched under Search Order. This defines settings for manually searching multiple termbases.
    • Search hierarchically until a matching term is found
    • Search all termbases in parallel and group results by term
    • Search all termbases sequentially and group results by termbase