Configuring Penalties

Penalties are defined to maintain a high quality of content leveraged from Translation Memory. A relative value is assigned to each of the penalties, which are then taken into account when calculating the translation score. This score is used to differentiate between golden or 100 %, fuzzy, and no match.

To define penalties for a project from Preferences:

Click Penalties.
The Penalties preferences for the current project appear.

Select the categories desired and supply their thresholds. The following table shows a list of penalties with their descriptions.

Penalty	Description
Case	Differences in case is considered
Non Literal	Differences in special characters, including punctuation, space, apostrophe, dash, quote, etc
Tag	Differences in tagging
Whitespace	Differences in blank spacing
Align	Differences in Translation Units with alignment attributes
Machine Translation	Differences in Translation Units based on Machine Translation
Multiple Translation	Differences in Translation Units based on duplicates within the TM with different translations
Local TM	Differences in Translation Unit from local desktop copy
Remote TM	Differences in Translation Unit from remote TM
Private TU	Differences in work-group Translation Unit from remote TM
Public TU	Differences in non-work-group Translation Unit from remote TM
Secondary TM	Indicates more than one TM is permitted and includes the maximum as selected
Attribute	Differences in attributes
If Attribute is Not	When custom attribute in the Translation Unit does not match the text box attribute
If Filename Attribute Does Not Match	When the file name attribute in the Translation Unit does not match the TXLF file name

Click OK.