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.

Figure 1. Preferences—Penalties

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 (Not Supported).
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.