Concordance searches
You can perform concordance searches if you are unsure about how to translate certain words or phrases and you want to find examples of those words or phrases used and translated in a different context.
In Browser Workbench, you can perform concordance searches by selecting You can also perform concordance searches in WorldServer by going to (if you have the appropriate permissions).
When you search for a term, the TM entries which contain that term are displayed as results in the order of their accuracy. For example, if you search for the term hedge fund, the TM entries that contain that exact term are displayed first (usually with a score of 100%) and the TM entries that contain only one of the two words in the term (hedge or fund) are displayed after (usually with a lower score – in this case, 50%, because only one of the two words you were looking for is in those entries). You can specify a minimum score for your matches, a maximum number of results, the TM in which you want to search, and whether or not you want to use a machine translation configuration in your search1.
Note that concordance scoring is different from the scoring of TM matches; the concordance score indicates how many of the words you are looking for are in a segment, regardless of the total number of words in the segment. In the example presented earlier, normal TM match scoring would report a score much lower than 50%, because TM match scoring is the percentage of the words you are looking for compared to the total number of words in the segment.
In this example, the concordance score returned by the BabelFish MT configuration is of 80.0. The TM entry score equivalent, however, is only an estimation made by your WorldServer administrator. Every MT match will have the same score, so you should not make decisions based on this value.
- Concordance results are case-insensitive. However, a penalty is assessed for capitalization differences in the same way they are assessed for standard and segment leverage match results. In the image, the highest score is 99.6 because the TM entry has Internet written with a capital I.
- Concordance scoring uses only words and numbers. Placeholders and punctuation are ignored for scoring purposes.
- Depending on your permissions, you might be able to modify TM entries directly by clicking the source text of the appropriate result. This applies only to TM-based results.
- The order and position of the words in your search text are not significant. Searching for cars and trucks or trucks and cars both return a 100% match against the segment "His favorite modes of travel are cars, planes, and trucks."
- Found search words are highlighted in the source text of the results. Target-based concordance searching is not supported.
- The order of the results is based on the concordance score (from the highest to the lowest).
- Wildcard searching is not supported.
- Searches are based on whole words or stems if stemming is enabled. There is no support for substring or subword lookups.