SYSTRAN 5.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Copyright Copyright © 1968-2005 SYSTRAN. All Rights Reserved. Version 5.0 Information in this document is subject to change without notice. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement or a nondisclosure agreement. The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of those agreements.
Contents Copyright .........................................................................................................................2 Trademarks .....................................................................................................................2 Welcome ......................................................................................................................5 About SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 .........................................................
Chapter 1: Welcome About SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 5 Welcome This User Guide will help you install and use workstation-based components of SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0. About SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 is a client-server based application. The main application runs over your organization’s network, and is available over the network to you as a desktop user. Two user interface options –the SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs SYSTRAN User Tools SYSTRAN User Tools include the SYSTRAN Toolbar and SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar. The SYSTRAN Toolbar is automatically displayed in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet Explorer to support rapid and efficient translation of Office documents and Web pages in real-time.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 7 Chapter Overview Chapter Contents 1. Welcome Overview of SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 Online Tools, Application Packs, and how to use this Guide. 2. SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 Online Translation Tools How to use the standard Web-based interface to translate files, Web pages, and text. 3. SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs How to use the SYSTRAN Application Packs.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs About SYSTRAN SYSTRAN offers the most widely used Language Translation Software in the world covering desktop products, scalable client-server applications (customer-hosted) and online services (SYSTRAN hosted). Our core language translation technologies power innovative products and solutions for PCs, networks and the Internet that facilitate communication in 40 language combinations and in 20 specialized domains.
Chapter 2: SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 Online Translation Tools The SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 Online Tools interface is available on your desktop PC once your organization has installed SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 on the corporate server. You can use the Online Tools to translate from an original (source) language into a different (target) language.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 11 Using the Online Tools If you are using the Online Tools, all translations begin through the main screen. The screen is organized in five steps: 1. Choose a language pair 2. Choose the type of content to be translated 3. Select Dictionaries to use 4. Select Translation Options to use 5. Translate the content Step 2 will change based on the type of content you are translating: a file, Web page or text.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Web Page Translation Enter URL 1. Use the Translate from drop-down list to select a language pair for the translation. A list of the available language pairs can be found in Appendix B. 2. Click the A Web page radio button. 3. Enter a URL location. You can copy and paste the URL into the address box. To do this, open a second browser window and go to the Web page that you want to translate.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 13 File Translation SYSTRAN Online Tools can automatically translate TXT, RTF, DOC, PDF, XML or HTML files, and will preserve the original document’s formatting in the translated version. Enter File name 1. Use the Translate from drop-down list to select a language pair for the translation. A list of the available language pairs can be found in Appendix B. 2. Click the A File radio button. 3.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Text Translation Use this option to translate any text that is not in a TXT, RTF, DOC, PDF, XML or HTML file. You can select text from any Windows-based application and translate it. Enter or paste source text here Translated text appears here 1. Use the Translate from drop-down list to select a language pair for the translation. A list of the available language pairs can be found in Appendix B.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 15 7. Use the Printable form drop-down list to select a display option for the translated text. Bilingual Printable form displays the source and translated text side by side. Monolingual Printable form displays only the translated text.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Selecting a Dictionary You can select SYSTRAN Dictionaries, User Dictionaries (UDs), Translation Memories (TMs) and Normalization Dictionaries (NDs) to customize and improve your translations. The User Dictionaries available in your installation of SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 are determined by your Network Administrator. Dictionaries can be created and managed using SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM).
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 17 Selecting Translation Options SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 allows you to set formatting, linguistic, and grammatical options for each type of translation (Web page, file or text). 1. Click Select your translation options to display the Translation Options dialog box. Translation options depend on the source and target language. Place your cursor over a Translation Option to see a brief description. 2.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Offline Tasks and Translation Results page Some translation requests can be completed within a few seconds. Longer documents or more complex requests will require more time and are therefore completed as offline tasks. Offline tasks are listed on the Translation Results page. For each translation, a progress bar showing the status of a translation is displayed.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 19 To return to the Translation Results page when offline tasks are in progress, click on Click here to view results from your previous translation requests for a status update of previous translation requests. Troubleshooting Online Tools Contact your Network Administrator if you have problems completing a translation using the SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 Online Tools.
Chapter 3: SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs Application Pack Options SYSTRAN User Tools SYSTRAN Expert Tools Working with the User Tools Using the SYSTRAN Toolbar Using the SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar Working with the Expert Tools Using SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM) Using SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) Using SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility (SMTU) Troubleshooting Application Packs
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 21 SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs Application Pack Options SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs (User Tools and Expert Tools) can be downloaded and installed on your desktop PC. Each Application Pack contains client software that can be used to perform translation tasks in conjunction with the Enterprise level software installed on the server. You will need administrator permission to download the Application Packs.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs SYSTRAN Expert Tools SYSTRAN Expert Tools provide robust capability for planning, managing and completing your translation projects, and for improving the quality of your results with each new project you complete. SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM) helps you work with, edit, and enhance your translations.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 23 To use the SYSTRAN Toolbar: 1. Open a file in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or Internet Explorer. The Toolbar will appear on the Office toolbar. 2. Select a Language Pair from the drop-down list. 3. Click the Dictionaries button to use dictionaries to improve the quality of your translation.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs UDs, TMs and NDs take priority over the SYSTRAN Dictionaries during the translation process. • The available domains for each Dictionary resource selected will appear in the bottom pane. Check each Domain that you want to use with your translations. Then, set the priority for each selected Domain by clicking the arrows to move it higher or lower in the priority sequence. 3.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 25 4. Click Translate to perform the translation. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as required to improve the quality of your translation.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Using the SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar (SCT) lets you translate text from almost any Windows– based application by cutting or copying it to the Windows clipboard. SCT automatically translates the clipboard text, which you can then paste into your application. User Dictionaries Translate Translation Options Clipboard Translator Options Help Source Language Target Language Exit 1.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 27 Working with the Expert Tools The SYSTRAN Expert Tools – SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM), SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM), and SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility (SMTU) – are available to users with access to the application Downloads Web page. See your Network Administrator if you need to receive this level of access.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Screen Item Description Menu Bar Contains the STPM menus. Each menu has a list of commands to perform various STPM activities. Standard Toolbar Buttons for commonly used STPM commands. Format Toolbar A drop-down list for selecting fonts and formatting. Web Toolbar Lets you enter Web page addresses (URLs). Stop Stops the current action.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 29 Importing a File (New Project) To import DOC, RTF, TXT, HTML, XHTML and TMX-formatted files: 1. On the File menu, click Import File. The Open dialog box appears. 2. Select a file and click Open. STPM creates a new project and displays the selected file in the source document window.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Translating the file 1. When the file is open in the STPM window, click Translate. The translated document or Web page appears in the target document window. Source document Translated document Displaying a Web Page (New Project) To display a Web page: 1. Enter the Web address (URL) of the Web page that you want to translate in the Address field of the Web Toolbar: 2. Click the Open button to the right of the Address field.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 31 Source Web page Translating the Web page 2. When the Web page is open in the STPM window, click Translate. The translated document or Web page appears in the target document window.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Using Alignment STPM Alignment lets you select a sentence in either the source or target window and view the corresponding sentence in the other document or Web page. This helps you identify areas where you may want to improve the quality of the translation. Using the Review Functions Click to open the Review dialog box, which has tabs for advanced functions to help improve the quality of your translation.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 33 Selecting Alternative Meanings The Alternative Meanings tab shows alternative meanings for expressions in SYSTRAN or User Dictionaries. This tab is helps you choose the preferred translation when several choices are offered by the software. 1. Click the Alternative Meanings tab. 2. Review the choices on each line. To select a choice, click the radio button in front of it. 3.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Selecting a Translation Memory The Translation Memory tab shows sentences for which a Translation Memory has been applied. You can compare the software-generated translation with Translation Memory entries and decide which entry should be used. 1. Click the Translation Memory tab. 2. Review the choices on each line. To select a choice, click the radio button in front of it. 3.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 35 Modifying Source Analysis The Source Analysis tab shows how the software handled source ambiguities and allows you to override the selections. 1. Click the Source Analysis tab. 2. Review the choices on each line. To select a choice, click the radio button in front of it. 3. If you want the software to always handle a choice as shown in the Source Analysis tab, click the checkbox in the left column. 4.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Reviewing Terminology The Terminology Review tab lets you identify expressions such as Not Found Words or Terminology Extraction that the software found. These terms can then be added to the User Dictionaries. To use this tab to add new terms and expressions to User Dictionaries: 1. Click the Terminology Review tab. 2. Review the Not Found Words (NFW) and Extracted Terminology.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 37 Reviewing Sentences The Sentence Review tab lets you compare sentences in the source and target windows. You can then send selected sentences to Translation Memory. 1. Click the Sentence Review tab. 2. Review the sentences. To send a sentence to a Translation Memory (TM), click the checkbox to the left of the sentence. 3. Click Send to SDM to send the checked sentences to the appropriate TM. 4.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Searching and Highlighting STPM Search and Highlight lets you view particular words and expressions such as extracted terminology, Not Found Words, words with alternative meanings, and words with source ambiguities. By identifying these words, you can then take steps to improve the quality of your translations. Expressions are color-coded to make them easy to locate.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 39 Other STPM tasks You can perform the following additional tasks in STPM. These tasks are described in detail in the SYSTRAN 5.0 User Guide. • Perform contextual dictionary activities. • Set Do Not Translate (DNT) blocks. • Find expressions in User Dictionaries. • Edit and format text. • Navigate between projects in the SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager window. • Save projects.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs The following procedure provides basic instructions for creating a User Dictionary with SDM. For more information about UDs and SDM, refer to the SYSTRAN 5.0 User Guide. 1. Click Start, Programs, SYSTRAN program group, SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager. 2. On the File menu, click New, and then click Dictionary Project. 3. Select a Source language by clicking the drop-down list. 4. Select a Target language in the Available languages list.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 41 7. Define the name that will be displayed when selecting the dictionary for a translation in the corresponding textbox. 8. Click OK. 9. From the Edit menu, click Add Entry. In the left column, type the word or phrase for the source language. Move the cursor to the Target language field and enter the appropriate word or phrase in the target language. 10. Repeat step 9 to add more words and phrases. 11.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Creating Dictionaries in other applications Dictionaries can also be created in Excel or text editors and then uploaded and compiled using the Dictionary Compilation page. 1. Create the dictionary in Excel or another compatible application. Refer to the SYSTRAN 5.0 User Guide for more information about creating the dictionary file. 2. Open the Dictionary Compilation dialog box. 3.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 43 Shared and Public Dictionaries When a dictionary is first uploaded, it is only available to the user who created it. For other users to see the dictionary, it must be set as Shared or Public (or both) using the SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager. To make a dictionary available for use by others, set the Public attribute of the dictionary to Yes. It is also possible for several users to collaborate in the development of a dictionary.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Using SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility (SMTU) SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility (SMTU) allows you to translate groups (or batches) of documents at one time. 1. Click Start, Programs, SYSTRAN program group, and then click on SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility. 2. To create a new batch project, click New Project on the File menu. 6. Add the files, folders, and Web pages that you want to translate. Click to add an entire folder. add a single file.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 45 10. Click the Translate button and click Translate Batch to translate all the documents that you added to the batch project. 11. Save the project by clicking Save Project on the File menu. You can reopen your file by clicking Open Project on the File menu. Troubleshooting Application Packs Contact your Network Administrator if you have problems completing a translation using the SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs.
Appendix A: Glossary Term Definition Acronym In SYSTRAN terminology, a word, all uppercase, formed from the initial letters of other words or parts of a series of words, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps. Adjective A word used to modify a noun by limiting or qualifying.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 47 Term Definition Headword In SYSTRAN terminology, the noun in a noun phrase that can change when plural, such as nut in lug nut, Library in Library of Congress, and day in red letter day. Homograph In SYSTRAN terminology, one of two or more words that have the same spelling and are different parts of speech (for example, noun and verb, or adjective and verb).
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Term Definition POS The acronym for Part of Speech. Preposition A word placed before a noun or noun phrase, indicating the relation of that noun or noun phrase to a verb, an adjective, or another noun or noun phrase, such as at, by, in, to, from, and with. Prepositional phrase A phrase that consists of a preposition plus the noun or noun phrase that it governs, such as at the park, in reference to your letter, or from Mars.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 49 Term Definition Translation Memory (TM) Translation Memory stores and recycles previously translated units of text – like sentences that can be integrated into the translation process UD The acronym for User Dictionary. User Dictionary A dictionary used in translation that has been created by the user for the purpose of tailoring translations to his specific needs. Definitions in a UD override the ones in the SYSTRAN dictionaries.
Appendix B: Language Pairs SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.
Appendix C: Application Pack Installation Client Workstation Requirements Users of SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 must be working on client computers with the following specifications in order to install and run the Application Packs: • Windows XP (Home or Professional) or Windows 2000 workstation (Service Pack 4 and above) • Internet Explorer 5.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs SYSTRAN Expert Tools SYSTRAN Expert Tools provide robust capability for planning, managing and completing translation projects, and for improving the quality of your results with each new project you complete. SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM) helps you work with, edit, and enhance your translations.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 53 Installing SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs can be downloaded from the Downloads Web page. 1. Click Downloads on the SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 main page to display the Downloads page. 2. Click on User Tools or Expert Tools to download an application package to your system. Click Cancel at any time to terminate the installation. 3.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 5. You will need to accept the software license agreement in order to complete the installation. To do so, click I accept…, and then click Next. Otherwise, click Cancel to end the installation. 6. Enter your customer information and click Next.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 55 7. By default, the Application Packs are installed in the directory C:\Program Files\SYSTRAN\5.0\Clients\. To use the default location, click Next. You can change the installation location by clicking Change… 8. In most cases, you should install the Complete product. Check with your Network Administrator before selecting Custom. To install the complete product, click Next.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs If Custom install is selected, the installation program displays a dialog to select which components to install. 9. Click Back to change any of your settings. Click Install to proceed. A Progress bar will show the status of the installation. 10. When the installer confirms a successful installation, click Finish. 11. The installer may require you to restart the computer. Click Yes to restart your computer.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 57 12. After installation, during your first use of the SYSTRAN Application Packs, you will need to enter the network URL for the Translation Server. See Configuring SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Pack. You can change the translation server URL by right clicking on the SYSTRAN Server icon and choosing Connection. See SYSTRAN Desktop Server.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Configuring SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs SYSTRAN Desktop Server The SYSTRAN Desktop Server application is installed on your client PC to manage the interaction between the applications in the SYSTRAN Application Packs and the Translation Server.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs 59 Connecting to a SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.01 By default, the URL of the SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 is • http://server_name/systran/tws.asmx Connecting to a SYSTRAN Enterprise 4.0 By default, the URL of the SYSTRAN Enterprise 4.0 is • http://server_name/systran/sws.asmx Log in to a SYSTRAN Enterprise Workgroup Server 5.0 • Log in to the current Translation Server to use the Expert Tools.
User Interface Guide: SYSTRAN Online Tools and Application Packs Uninstalling an Application Pack To uninstall SYSTRAN Enterprise Application Packs, you can either run the Uninstall option in the SYSTRAN Client 5.0 group in your Windows Start menu. The Application Packs can also be removed using the Add/Remove Programs function in the Windows Control Panel.
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