Penalties

Penalties are defined to maintain a high quality of content leveraged from a translation memory (TM). 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 100% match, fuzzy match, and no match.

To select penalties for TM matches:

Click Penalties in the New Project Preferences group.

Select a penalty, supply a threshold, and click OK.

Penalty	Description
Case	Differences in case is considered
Non Literal	Differences in special characters, including punctuation, space, apostrophe, dash, and quote
Tag	Differences in tagging
Whitespace	Differences in blank spacing
Align	Differences in translation units (TUs) with alignment attributes
Machine Translation	Differences in TUs based on machine translation (MT)
Multiple Translation	Differences in TUs based on duplicates within the TM with different translations
Local TM	Differences in TUs from the local desktop copy
Remote TM	Differences in TUs from a remote TM
Private TU	Differences in work-group TUs from a remote TM
Public TU	Differences in non-work-group TUs from a remote TM
Secondary TM	Indicates that the translation is leveraged from a secondary TM
Attribute	Differences in attributes
If attribute is not	When a custom attribute in a TU does not match the text box attribute
If filename attribute does not match	When the file name attribute in a TU does not match the TXLF file name