Managing Data Sources in LILT
In LILT, all translation data is organized into Data Sources. Each Data Source is designated by a language pair and aggregates the following linguistic assets:
Translation Memory (one or many): A collection of source/target TM entries (previously translated segments).
Termbase (zero or many): A collection of source/target TB entries (Termbase terms that help to maintain consistent terminology usage).
Contextual AI: A self-learning neural translation system.
Note that there can be more than one Data Source for a given language pair.
Each Project in LILT is associated with one Data Source, and only uses the resources from that Data Source. Multiple Projects can share the same Data Source.
Managing your Data Sources
Managing your Data Sources is an important part of localization. To get started, navigate to the Data > Sources tab.
Data Sources are grouped into sections based on language pair. Use the search bar to filter Data Sources by language code or name.
Each Data Source is displayed as a card with the following information:
Data Source name
Data Source languages
Date the Data Source was last updated. Note: This date reflects the last time an action was taken against the data source directly (e.g. adding a TMX file) and does not represent the last time a segment was added.
Create a Data Source
Data Sources can be created at any time under the Sources tab or during Job Creation.
To create a new Data Source through the Sources tab, click the New data source button in the upper-right.
This will open a popup box with the following fields to fill out in order to create your new Data Source:
Name: The name of the Data Source.
Source language: The source language of the Data Source.
Target language: The target language of the Data Source.
In-context learning: Whether to enable LILT's Contextual AI for translation suggestions.
Force TB case-sensitivity: Whether to enforce term matches to respect case-sensitivity.
After filling in the fields, click the Create button to create the Data Source. Once created, you can Upload Memory Files to it, and you can make use of the Data Source in your Projects.
Default Data Sources
Whenever a Model is created that uses a new language pair, LILT also creates a Default Data Source for that language pair. Default Data Sources are distinguished by the Default text next to the name.
Each language pair must have exactly one Default Data Source. The Data Source set as the default cannot be deleted. However, administrators and managers can change the Default Data Source for a language pair by clicking the dropdown and selecting the option to Set as default data source.
Delete a Data Source
Clicking the Delete button in the dropdown and confirm that you want to permanently delete the Data Source.
Edit a Data Source
Updating a Data Source will affect all Projects using that Data Source (with no latency). Your translators are guaranteed to always be working with the most up-to-date version of the Data Source.
Click on the Data Source name or the Edit button to open up the Data Source, where you can edit all the entries and settings of the selected Data Source.
From the Manage Entries page, you can access all the Data Source Settings and contents of the selected Data Source to Managing Termbase and Translation Memory Entries.
Manage resources
The Manage resources page on the left sidebar lets you Upload TB/TM Files to the selected Data Source.
Uploaded TM file entries are used in TM Matching to train the Data Source's Model.
Uploaded TB file entries provide Termbase references within LILT Translate.
Download Data Source Entries
While Data Sources cannot be downloaded in full, the translation memory and termbase entries can be downloaded separately.
To download all entries in a Data Source, click the Download button in the top right corner, then select from the modal which items you’d like to download and in what format.
To download only specific TM entries or TB entries, open the Manage entries page, select the desired entries, and then clicking the TM entries or TB entries button.
