Forum: Across support
Topic: Is concordance search in Across Language Server working for anybody?
Poster: Katarzyna Slowikova
Post title: don't buy it
Sorry, looks like I don't know how to quote properly... So I'll try to distinguish it manually.
[quote]AAV wrote:
Thank you, much more clear now.
"If the word differs" is the core moment.
Concordance match will never be found if word differs, because otherwise you'll get a lot of unusable garbage in results. If you are searching how "call customer" is usually used, would thousands of TMs with "all customers" help?
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Maybe I'm spoiled by Trados, but that's really not my definition of concordance. (not only my: [url removed] )
As Dominique already pointed out, in inflected languages a 13-letters phrase like yours would differ much (!) more than by 1 letter and still remain "the same" phrase.
It has crossed my mind that this could be a "normal" function in Across. But if so, why is there the "minimum matching degree" ????
And why on Earth would it be called "concordance", in the first place, if it's just the most primitive kind of search (compare to search engines ;)) ...?
In short, I'm still struggling to believe, this is a "normal functionality" in Across. If so, it must have been developed by people who now *** about languages (wouldn't expect that from Germans, which after all, made Trados as well).
I'm still hoping to be enlighten as to what I'm doing wrong.
But thanks for your answers, both of you. And sorry for my late response, too much work (luckily not in Across).
[Edited at 2014-06-30 16:13 GMT]
[Edited at 2014-06-30 16:14 GMT]
Topic: Is concordance search in Across Language Server working for anybody?
Poster: Katarzyna Slowikova
Post title: don't buy it
Sorry, looks like I don't know how to quote properly... So I'll try to distinguish it manually.
[quote]AAV wrote:
Thank you, much more clear now.
"If the word differs" is the core moment.
Concordance match will never be found if word differs, because otherwise you'll get a lot of unusable garbage in results. If you are searching how "call customer" is usually used, would thousands of TMs with "all customers" help?
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Maybe I'm spoiled by Trados, but that's really not my definition of concordance. (not only my: [url removed] )
As Dominique already pointed out, in inflected languages a 13-letters phrase like yours would differ much (!) more than by 1 letter and still remain "the same" phrase.
It has crossed my mind that this could be a "normal" function in Across. But if so, why is there the "minimum matching degree" ????
And why on Earth would it be called "concordance", in the first place, if it's just the most primitive kind of search (compare to search engines ;)) ...?
In short, I'm still struggling to believe, this is a "normal functionality" in Across. If so, it must have been developed by people who now *** about languages (wouldn't expect that from Germans, which after all, made Trados as well).
I'm still hoping to be enlighten as to what I'm doing wrong.
But thanks for your answers, both of you. And sorry for my late response, too much work (luckily not in Across).
[Edited at 2014-06-30 16:13 GMT]
[Edited at 2014-06-30 16:14 GMT]