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Translation Memory (TM) is a database of the source strings and their corresponding translations into different languages that can speed up the translation of the same or similar strings in your projects. The project TM is created automatically for each project. Every translation made in the project is automatically added to the project TM.

Creating TM

Besides the project TMs that are automatically created with the respective projects, you can also create separate TMs, fill them with the appropriate content by uploading your existing TMs in TMX, XLSX, or CSV format, and then assign these TMs to the needed projects.

To create a TM, follow these steps:

1. Open your organization Workspace and select Translation memories on the left.
2. At the bottom right, click add.
   
3. In the appeared dialog, name your TM and select a default language that will be displayed first in the table of TM records.
4. (Optional) Click Select files to upload your existing TM. You can skip this step and upload a TM later.
5. Click Create.
   

Creating and Editing TM Records

You can create TM records from scratch and edit existing TM records of a particular TM.

Creating TM Records

To create a TM record, follow these steps:

1. Open your organization Workspace and select Translation memories on the left.
2. Click on the needed TM.
3. Click Add phrase.
   
4. In the appeared dialog, select the language from the drop-down menu and type the translation of the TM record.
5. Click add Translation to add more translations for the TM record.
6. Click Add phrase.
   

Editing TM Records

To edit a TM record, follow these steps:

1. Open your organization Workspace and select Translation memories on the left.
2. Click on the needed TM.
3. Edit a TM record’s translation and press Ctrl+Enterto save changes.
   

Downloading and Uploading TM

To download or upload TMs, follow these steps:

1. Open your project and go to Resources > Translation memories.
2. Click on the needed TM.
3. Click or .

The owner, admins and managers can download and upload TM in the following file formats: TMX, XLSX, or CSV.

If you upload TM in CSV or XLS/XLSX file formats, match columns with the corresponding languages in the configuration dialog.

Downloading TM for Offline Management

When downloading TM from Crowdin Enterprise in TMX format, you can get some additional metadata that might be useful for different usage scenarios with offline tools.

Additional TM attributes provided by translation memory downloaded in TMX format:

x-crowdin-metadata – String identifier hash.
creationid – Translation author’s full name and username in Crowdin Enterprise.
creationdate – Translation creation date.
changeid – Full name and username of the person who updated a translation.
changedate – Translation update date.
usagecount – Translation suggestion’s number of usages in Crowdin Enterprise.
lastusagedate – The last date a translation suggestion was used in Crowdin Enterprise.

Often translation vendors that work in Crowdin Enterprise export TMs from projects to manage (e.g., for cleaning TMs from irrelevant translations and further reimport back to Crowdin Enterprise) them for their clients in various desktop applications. The TM attributes listed above allow better navigation and filtering of TM segments based on different criteria. Also, you might use cleaned and refreshed TMs to train MT engines only on product-specific data to ensure a higher quality of translations as a result.

Прив’язка ПП

Щоб прив’язати будь-які конкретні ПП для вашого проекту, виконайте наступні дії:

1. Open your project and go to Resources > Translation memories.
2. Assign the needed TMs from the list.

Prioritizing TM

When you assigned a few TMs to the project, you can set the needed priority for each of them. As a result, TM suggestions from the TM with the higher priority will be displayed in the first place.

The default TM priority value is set to 1. A higher number has a higher priority (for example, 5 has a higher priority than 1). For example, if you assigned four TMs to your project, you can set the priority of 4 to the most important TM, the one that should be used in the first place. And respectively set the lower priorities to other TMs.

To set the priority for TMs, follow these steps:

1. Open your project and go to Resources > Translation memories.
2. In the Priority column, set the preferred priority for assigned TMs.

Спільне використання ПП

Using the shared TMs, you can pre-translate any of the projects in your organization. Also, TM suggestions from all TMs will appear in the Editor.

To share TMs between all of the projects in your organization, follow these steps:

1. Open your organization Workspace and select Translation memories on the left.
2. Select Share Translation Memories.
   

Застосування пам’яті перекладів через попередній переклад

Pre-translation via TM allows you to leverage a configurable (40% to 100% match ratio) and Perfect matches.

Read more about Pre-translation.

TM Match Calculation

Crowdin Enterprise calculates the TM match by comparing the source string to be translated and TM’s existing segments.

There are three main types of TM matches:

• Perfect Match - TM segment’s text and context completely matches the source string
• 100% Match - TM segment’s text matches the source string, but the context is different
• Fuzzy Match (99% and less) - TM segment’s text is different to a certain extent compared to the source string

If the Perfect and 100% TM match calculation is relatively straightforward, the fuzzy matches’ calculation may not be so obvious.

There are multiple different factors that affect the calculation of fuzzy matches, for example:

• Word order
• Punctuation
• Formatting tags
• Matches that are longer than the source string