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Is it possible to change default segmentation rules rather than on an individual memory basis?

Neil Allen

I often receive documents with soft line breaks which really should break the segment. This is a particular nuisance in Excel sheets where the author types lines of text into single cells, many of which are repeated in subsequent cells, but the fact that they are all in one long segment means that propagation is not possible and reuse is very limited.

Under these circumstances, I change the memory segmentation and reimport, having added the soft line break as a break character.

However, rather than having to keep doing this, is there any way to change the default segmentation rules so that I don't have to keep making this change every time I create a memory for a document where this is needed?

Thanks,

Neil
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    Neil Allen said:
    the fact that they are all in one long segment

    Please elaborate on this... I don't understand what you mean here.
    Multiple sentences in a single Excel cell should be normally segmented to multiple segments...

    Neil Allen said:
    so that I don't have to keep making this change every time I create a memory for a document

    Why would you create separate TM each time?!?! Simply create a TM with appropriate segmentation rules, which will be used for segmentation only (i.e. put it as a first TM in the list) and NOT for the update (turn off the appropriate check box)... and use another TM for updating only.
    EDIT: Ah, Nora wrote the same thing in the meantime ;-)

    But I still don't understand the first part... if the sentences within a cell are properly punctuated, they should be correctly segmented.
    Or are you maybe talking about cases like "bullet lists" where individual list items do not contain punctuation?
  • 0 in reply to Evzen Polenka

    Ok, thank you Nora and Paul for your quick replies. The solution you mention, Nora, suits me perfectly.

    Evzen, the default segmentation rules do not include the soft line break. I occasionally receive Excel files where dozens of lines containing hundreds of words are placed in a single Excel cell, which then gets imported as a single large segment.

    Thank you for your answer.

    Neil
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    Neil Allen said:
    Evzen, the default segmentation rules do not include the soft line break. I occasionally receive Excel files where dozens of lines containing hundreds of words are placed in a single Excel cell, which then gets imported as a single large segment.

    Yes, I know that line feed is not included in default segmentation rules.
    My point was that this rule is not necessary if sentences are properly punctuated in the first place and if the source file is parsed by a correct file type.

    It sounds to me like that you are using the Bilingual Excel file type (which AFAIK does NOT perform sentence segmentation within a cell... which results in multiple sentences in a single segment) instead of the standard Excel file type.

    A screenshot of such Excel file would be worth a thousand words...
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    Neil Allen said:
    Evzen, the default segmentation rules do not include the soft line break. I occasionally receive Excel files where dozens of lines containing hundreds of words are placed in a single Excel cell, which then gets imported as a single large segment.

    Yes, I know that line feed is not included in default segmentation rules.
    My point was that this rule is not necessary if sentences are properly punctuated in the first place and if the source file is parsed by a correct file type.

    It sounds to me like that you are using the Bilingual Excel file type (which AFAIK does NOT perform sentence segmentation within a cell... which results in multiple sentences in a single segment) instead of the standard Excel file type.

    A screenshot of such Excel file would be worth a thousand words...
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