Configure TM Penalties

Penalties preferences help maintain a high quality of content leveraged from a translation memory (TM). This involves assessing a penalty to TM matches to provide a relative score for those TM matches. You can assign a relative value to each penalty type when calculating the translation score. This score helps users differentiate between 100% match, fuzzy match, and no match content.

To configure penalties for TM matches:

  1. Select Preferences from the Wordfast drop-down menu.
  2. On the Preferences dialog, click Penalties under New Project Preferences.
  3. Select a penalty, supply a threshold, then click OK.

    Penalty

    Action

    		  

    Case

    Select to consider differences in case.

    		  

    Non Literal

    Select to consider differences in special characters, including punctuation, space, apostrophe, dash, and quote.

    		  

    Tag

    Select to consider differences in tagging.

    		  

    Whitespace

    Select to consider differences in blank spacing.

    		  

    Align

    Select to consider differences in translation units (TUs) with alignment attributes.

    		  

    Machine Translation

    Select to consider differences in TUs based on machine translation (MT).

    		  

    Multiple Translation

    Select to consider differences in TUs based on duplicates within the TM with different translations.

    		  

    Local TM

    Select to consider differences in TUs from the local desktop copy.

    		  

    Remote TM

    Select to consider differences in TUs from a remote TM.

    		  

    Private TU

    Select to consider differences in work-group TUs from a remote TM.

    		  

    Public TU

    Select to consider differences in non-work-group TUs from a remote TM.

    		  

    Secondary TM

    Select to indicate that the translation leverages a secondary TM.

    		  

    Attribute

    Select to consider differences in attributes.

    		  

    If attribute is not

    Select for when a custom attribute in a TU does not match the text box attribute.

    		  

    If filename attribute does not match

    Select for when the file name attribute in a TU does not match the TXLF file name.

    		  
Parent topic: Current Project Preferences