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upLIFT

The upLIFT technology leverages segment fragments from TMs to increase translation productivity and speed.

upLIFT is available through two new functions:
  • Fragment Recall makes TMs smarter by creating correspondence between parts of source and target sentences and then suggesting those fragments during translation. Fragment Recall is integrated into Trados Studio with matches coming directly from the TM through AutoSuggest.
  • Fuzzy Match Repair improves TM fuzzy matches by looking for replacements for mismatched source content in other resources like termbases, fragment recall matches or machine translation.

Fragment Recall

With Fragment Recall, Trados Studio identifies matching fragments from a TM’s existing TUs. This works in two ways:
  • Fragments in new segments are matched against whole TUs. If parts of the source segment were translated before as a whole TU, they are presented to the user as a match and through AutoSuggest. Punctuation differences are corrected.
  • Fragments in new segments are matched against corresponding fragments inside TUs. This goes even deeper, as parts of the source segment can be matched with parts of TUs.

Fuzzy Match Repair

With upLIFT, Trados Studio uses existing trusted resources like termbases, fragment matches or machine translation to help repair fuzzy matches.

Fuzzy Match repairing can mean changing, deleting, inserting or moving a word or phrase in the fuzzy match. Punctuation changes can also occur.

Fragment Alignment

Fragment recall and fuzzy match repair work because the TM technology in Trados Studio now has fragment alignment, which is an alignment between parts of the TU source and target segment.

TMs can be upgraded to use fragment alignment, so the upLIFT technology is available for new as well as existing TMs.

Trados Studio builds a translation model and aligns the translation units (TUs). Any new TU you add after enabling fragment alignment is immediately available for fragment recall. Find out more about how to perform fragment alignment in the Fragment alignment topic.