AutoSuggest dictionaries
An AutoSuggest dictionary contains words and phrases extracted from translation memories (TMs) (*.sdltm) or *.tmx files. You use these dictionaries in AutoSuggest suggestions during translation. After typing the first few characters of a word, the application presents you with a list of suggested words and phrases which start with the same characters.
Generating AutoSuggest dictionaries
If one of the words or phrases matches what you were about to type, you can automatically complete the word or phrase by selecting it from the list. As you continue to type the list of suggested words is continuously updated.
An AutoSuggest dictionary is generated by scanning through each TM segment and correlating words in the source with words in the target. For example, if the word Computer appears in only 93 source segments and the word Rechner appears in only 93 corresponding target segments, then the word Computer could be correlated with the word Rechner. This process can be applied to groups of words to form phrase mappings. These words and phrases are then extracted to an AutoSuggest dictionary file (*.bpm).