Prerequisites
For being able to complete the following exercise you need at least to have gone through course 3 "TM Functionalities", included in our Translation Memory Module. You also need to have installed on your computer Déjà Vu X and Microsoft Office Word. The screen shots used to illustrate several steps of this exercise sheet were taken from Déjà Vu X.
Outline of this exercise
On completion of these exercises, you should be able to:
- Align source and target language texts in Déjà Vu X
- Join and split segments in order to obtain correct alignments
- Save the alignment project
- Create a Translation Memory from the alignment results
- Export the alignment results from the translation memory
- Export the translation back in its original format
Preparing your working environment
Before starting to work, prepare your working environment by creating a folder called "CAT tools" under My Documents.
Download from our eCoLoTrain web page the zipped folder called "Alignment.rar" and unzip it in My Documents\CAT tools. The path now should be: My Documents\CAT tools\Alignment.
All files you will need during this exercise are located in the Alignment folder, which consists of six sub-folders, each containing two *.doc files with the same text in two different languages. Choose one of the language pairs among English-German, English-Estonian, English-French, English-Italian, English-Romanian, and English-Slovenian for your alignment activity.