Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: memoQ - Low match percentage in identical segments with changing figures - And how to solve it!
Poster: Tomás Cano Binder, CT
Dear colleagues and nevertheless friends,
Kilgray's support people just solved a problem that was really puzzling and was reducing our productivity with memoQ in segments containing numbers. The problem happened when a new segment was identical to one present in the TM, except for figures with a different number of digits.
You know that if you have the translation of this segment in the TM...
Set of 5 screwdrivers with magnetic tip
...and you translate a new segment where only the figure changes:
Set of 9 screwdrivers with magnetic tip
memoQ gives you a 99% match, and even adapts the number automatically. In theory, this should be also the case if the figure has a different number of digits, like here:
Set of 12 screwdrivers with magnetic tip
For these segments with more or less digits in the figures, we got as low as 70%, and never a 99%. As it happens, Kilgray discovered today that, if your memories are rather old, some internal issue with the current versions of memoQ causes digits to have an incorrect weight when matching.
The solution to this problem is then, basically, to simply use the Repair function with the TM. 99%'s are back!
I just thought I'd post this, as other users of memoQ with older TMs could be having the same issue.
Good luck!
Topic: memoQ - Low match percentage in identical segments with changing figures - And how to solve it!
Poster: Tomás Cano Binder, CT
Dear colleagues and nevertheless friends,
Kilgray's support people just solved a problem that was really puzzling and was reducing our productivity with memoQ in segments containing numbers. The problem happened when a new segment was identical to one present in the TM, except for figures with a different number of digits.
You know that if you have the translation of this segment in the TM...
Set of 5 screwdrivers with magnetic tip
...and you translate a new segment where only the figure changes:
Set of 9 screwdrivers with magnetic tip
memoQ gives you a 99% match, and even adapts the number automatically. In theory, this should be also the case if the figure has a different number of digits, like here:
Set of 12 screwdrivers with magnetic tip
For these segments with more or less digits in the figures, we got as low as 70%, and never a 99%. As it happens, Kilgray discovered today that, if your memories are rather old, some internal issue with the current versions of memoQ causes digits to have an incorrect weight when matching.
The solution to this problem is then, basically, to simply use the Repair function with the TM. 99%'s are back!
I just thought I'd post this, as other users of memoQ with older TMs could be having the same issue.
Good luck!