The Settings page within a Translation Memory provides you with the tools to streamline the process of managing your Translation Memories and Termbase.

General settings

Note: All options under General settings are only applied if you click the Save button at the bottom of the Memory settings section.

Memory name: This field lets you change the name of the Translation Memory.

ID: This is the unique ID of the Translation Memory.

Languages: This field displays the languages of the Translation Memory. Translation Memory languages cannot be changed.

Default TM entry status: Select the default status for new Translation Memory entries. By default, this option is set to Unreviewed. If you have a lot of entries you want to add and don’t want to manually mark them all as reviewed, it could speed up your workflow to set the Default TM Entry Status to Reviewed. Both Unreviewed and Reviewed TM entries are shown to translators in Lilt Translate.

Default TB entry status: Select the default status for new Termbase entries. By default, this option is set to Unreviewed. If you want to add a lot of entries and don’t want to manually mark them all as Reviewed, it could speed up your workflow to set the Default TB Entry Status to Reviewed. Only entries that are Reviewed are shown to translators in Lilt Translate.

  • Draft: Entries are not used in translation and not shown to translators.
  • Reviewed: Entries are used in translation and shown to translators.
  • Unreviewed (default option): Entries are not used in translation and not shown to translators.

When an entry in the Draft state or Unreviewed state is reviewed, it automatically moves to the Reviewed state. Terms are only visible under the Segment Context tab of Lilt Translate if they are in the Reviewed state.

Adaptive memory: This option allows you to enable or disable adaptive machine translation. For more information, see the Adaptive Memory article.

Case-sensitive matching: This option allows you to enable or disable case-sensitivity when matching TB entries. For more information, see the Terminology article.

Custom properties:

The Custom properties section allows you to add custom metadata fields to all your TM and TB entries within the Translation Memory. Custom fields allow you to add metadata about translations that provide context to translators about the translation. Once a custom field is created, you can change the Field Name and whether it is a Required field, but you cannot change the field type. Clicking on the trash can icon will immediately remove the custom field and permanently delete the field from all TM and TB entries in the Lilt Memory.

Custom properties are only applied if you click the Save button at the bottom of the Memory Settings section. So if you accidentally delete a custom field, simply leave the page without clicking the Save button and your custom fields will remain intact.

Reset MT

If adaptive memory is turned on, Lilt’s translation models learn every time a user confirms a segment during translation. If for some reason the translation recommendations aren’t quite what you are looking for, clicking the Reset button will reset the adaptive memory to a clean state. Resetting the MT does not affect the Termbase or memories.

Purge memory

To remove all memory entries, all Termbase entries, and all resources from a memory, click the Purge Memory button. This will bring up a popup to confirm you want to permanently delete these assets.