Re: [xliff] Type values for the match element (Y22)

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Helena S Chapman <>
Date
2012-10-29T13:28:57+00:00
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Re: [xliff] Type values for the match element (Y22)
Is the tm to 100% similarity not close
to ICE enough? I still don't quite get the need of it.

Also, I would suggest not using "ibm"
for ID based match because that is too close to be confused as a match
from IBM memory.

Best regards, 

Helena Shih Chapman

Globalization Technologies and Architecture

+1-720-396-6323 or T/L 938-6323

Waltham, Massachusetts

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 Yves Savourel <>

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 <>

Date:      
 10/29/2012 07:25 AM

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   [xliff] Type
values for the match element (Y22)

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Hi all,

I think a few of the proposed values for the type attribute of the match
element should be changed:

We have:

am - Assembled Match

ebm - Example-based Machine Translation

ibm - ID-based Match

ice - In-Context Exact Match

mt - Machine Translation

tm - Translation Memory Match

- a) It seem to me that 'ebm' should be removed: Knowing the kind of MT
system produced the candidate is not the purpose here, or if it is then
we should also have values for rule-based MT, hybrid-MT, etc. IMO 'mt'
is enough. If some specific information is needed about the type of MT
that should be a different attribute.

I propose to remove 'ebm'.

- b) I think 'ice' (In-Context Exact Match) gives too much information:
the fact that a match is exact should be provided by the 'similarity' attribute.
You can have in-context match that are not exact.

I propose to change 'ice' to 'icm' and the definition to "In-Context
Match". We should also probably expand a bit the definitions, for
example a new comer may have hard time understanding what 'context' means
here.

Cheers,

-yves

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