User Guide

SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide 187
4. When you finish removing words and terms, select File|Save.
Checking the Confidence Level of User Dictionary Entries
Display Confidence as a UD column by checking the box in the Dictionary Columns toolbox
(see Managing Dictionary Columns). The Confidence feature measures and displays the level
of confidence the software has in the accuracy of coded User Dictionary entries. You should
validate any entry that shows a low confidence level.
1. Double-click the gray box at the far left of an entry to check its confidence level. SDM will
check the entry, and the length and color of the bar in the Confidence column show the
confidence level of the entry. A confidence symbol also appears in the Status column next
to the entry.
Symbol
Description
The coding of the entry is evaluated as good by IntuitiveCoding.
The coding of the entry has been validated through ExpertCoding.
This is the highest level of validation.
The target language entry does not correlate well with the source
language entry or a term is unknown or seems irregular to
IntuitiveCoding. A message appears in the Status Bar of the SDM
screen. The entry will be used in the translation, but will probably
require additional coding to work as expected.
SDM cannot find any correlation between the source and target
language entries or a term cannot be coded at all. The entry will not
apply in the translation and needs to be corrected.
Not yet coded.
2. If the bar is short, the software has little confidence in how the entry is coded. To
increase the confidence level, revise your source and/or target language entries, and
then repeat step 1 above to measure the revised confidence level.
When the software cannot completely correlate source and target languages,
displays in the second column (Status). Click on the icon to display a coding
message.