Maintaining linguistic resources is something users can do online and offline. Depending on the volume of work to be done and of the output expected, users performing these actions will decide to work directly in the online editor or export the resource and run some extensive clean-up with dedicated tools.
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Maintenance activities in the CAT Editor
If you need to clean up your linguistic resources, for example, remove content from a TM or search and correct specific segments, you can open them in the Translation Editor and perform the necessary maintenance tasks.
Go to Resources and select the resource type, translation memories, project memories or terminology databases.
From the list of resources, select the one you need and open it in the Translation Editor.
Step 1: Filter relevant segments in the Editor using the Search Bar
The power search bar on the top of the Editor will allow you to filter on specific criteria you may need to browse contents through pairs of segments.
In the language menu on top, you could filter up to 2 languages.
Additionally, you could filter segments based on the values for each language.
This means you could search for segments which contain specific texts for each language (where a text is translated in a specific way, or where the text is present in both, source and target segments).
Filter options
It is possible to combine several categories to apply a custom filter. Once you enter the values you expect to apply, the categories are enabled and their field name is highlighted. The relevant filter categories and their purpose are listed below:
Option 1: The text contains: filter on segment text
The text contains filter is equipped with this search operator (AND/OR), among other search possibilities such as phrase match, case-sensitive search or even Regex /wildcard search.
For example, in an EN-GB to CA-CA job, you could apply a filter where the source segment has a specific translation (filter on segments where "university" is translated as "college") or where a text is identical in both languages.
Option 2: Bookmarks: filter on pinned segments
The bookmarks filter is equipped with this search operator (AND/OR), which allows filtering on specific bookmark value(s) for both or each language(s).
Step 2: Apply batch action
Once you have decided on the filters and search criteria, you may want to update the segments with some specific property or value. The fastest way to update a group of segments is to use the batch actions menu.
Actions that may be relevant for resource maintenance activities are:Language actions menu:
Batch actions at the language level
Clear all segment information: removes all contents for the given target language (this includes translations, bookmark, status, labels and any other related properties).
Set custom QA message: if you want to leave a custom "error" message which could help you do further research on what needs to be done for those segments.
Language-specific label: if you use labels for maintenance purposes. See labels (category: resources).
Find repetitions: This action lets you find multiple occurrences of identical source texts and translations. Example of use cases:
Find source text repetitions.
Find redundant segments that have both identical source text and translation.
Find identical source texts that have very similar translations.
Batch actions at the segment level
Related topics
See these Best Practices articles on our Knowledge Base: