Poll: Do you use a general Translation Memory for a variety of topics your work on? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you use a general Translation Memory for a variety of topics your work on?".
This poll was originally submitted by Frank Wang. View the poll results »
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My answer is NO of course, but I have been thinking of merging my TMs about one specific topic e.g medicine. However, I am not really sure about how the accuracy will be. For now, difference is %10 between yes & no. Is it useful to use one TM.
| | | | Anja Weggel 
Local time: 07:12
Member (2007)
English to German
... since you never know if one job turns out to have follow-ups, etc. It is simply to "messy" for my taste. And creating a new TM for every job just takes a second.
Best Regards
Anja
| | | | Laurent KRAULAND (X)
France
Local time: 07:12
French to German
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| Yes and No :) | Dec 25, 2010 |
I find it useful to create specific TM's for direct clients, but not for agencies.
Furthermore, I can extract TU's from the "Big Mama" (multilingual and multidirectional TM) according to diverse criteria and create a distinct TMX file from the extracted items.
[Modifié le 2010-12-25 15:43 GMT]
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Actually, I have two TMs - one for each translation direction. Why bother having many TMs if TM size has no negative impact on computer performance?
| | | | Jana Kinská
Czech Republic
Local time: 07:12
English to Czech
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I have quite a large "general" TM that I use for a number of clients, as I prefer having a large database of my previous solutions. Thanks to the attribute fields filled in I do not have to worry about using an inappropriate equivalent. For specific fields, clients and projects I use separate TMs, of course. Nevertheless, these can be merged to form a large one, again. Depends on the fields and types of texts, really. Good organisation is a must, of course.
| | | | Adnan Özdemir
Türkiye
Local time: 08:12
Member (2007)
German to Turkish
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Anja Weggel wrote:
... since you never know if one job turns out to have follow-ups, etc. It is simply to "messy" for my taste. And creating a new TM for every job just takes a second.
Best Regards
Anja
100 % agree with Anja.
Saludos desde Anatolia
Anadolu'dan selamlar
| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 07:12
Member (2006)
German to English
as most if not all of my TM´s are customer related and that would be breaching their terms and conditions!!
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