Wordcount in tagged SGML files Thread poster: OTMed (X)
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OTMed (X)
Poland
Local time: 18:28
English to Polish
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Hello everyone,
Having finished translation of a 60 000 K+ chars SGML tagged text I need to calculate the wordcount for our linguistic editor.
She has worked with bilingual Trados segmented rtf doc only and now I need to count 'words + spaces', a standard count we use for linguistic editors.
Theoretically, extracting a green text style done in Trados to a new doc and counting the chars+spaces should do the trick. The problem is it does not. The green text is marked with variou... See more Hello everyone,
Having finished translation of a 60 000 K+ chars SGML tagged text I need to calculate the wordcount for our linguistic editor.
She has worked with bilingual Trados segmented rtf doc only and now I need to count 'words + spaces', a standard count we use for linguistic editors.
Theoretically, extracting a green text style done in Trados to a new doc and counting the chars+spaces should do the trick. The problem is it does not. The green text is marked with various styles (e.g. 'green', 'normal') and what is worse, the styles overlap with int. and ext. taggs.
Have you come across a similar problem? Does anybody know a tool that would reliably extract translated text or tags only?
Any input will be sincerely and wholeheartedly appreciated ▲ Collapse
| | | | Hynek Palatin 
Czech Republic
Local time: 18:28
English to Czech
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How about just removing all the tags (search for certain style, replace with an empty string) and counting the rest, which should be only the translated text? And keeping the source hidden, of course. And doing it with a temporary copy of the document.
| | | | OTMed (X)
Poland
Local time: 18:28
English to Polish
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TOPIC STARTER | Problem solved | Jan 10, 2004 |
Hynek Palatin wrote:
How about just removing all the tags (search for certain style, replace with an empty string) and counting the rest
This is exactly what I have tried originally, coming to a conclusion that styles overlap, making this method unusable.
What did not overlap though was font colors.
So I have used ol'good Search and replace leaving only green-coloured Trados made text. Perhaps not most elegant of options, but it did work for me (and the editor).
Cheers, Greg
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 18:28
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| Why not use the Trados analysis? | Jan 11, 2004 |
You can analyse the file prior to translation and get the word count for source language.
After the translation, you can clean up a copy of your file and analyse it against an empty Trados TM with reversed languages (if the translation was ie EN-PL with the PL-EN TM). Then you´ll get the number of words in your translated file without too much work.
This should do the trick for any format, compatible with trados.
Kind regards
Jerzy
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| Try PractiCount | Jan 11, 2004 |
You can try PractiCount - http://www.practiline.com. The new beta version (2.4) supports XML and SGML files.
Best regards,
Oksana Kornitskaya
| | | | OTMed (X)
Poland
Local time: 18:28
English to Polish
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TOPIC STARTER | This option wouldn't work | Jan 12, 2004 |
Jerzy Czopik wrote:
...you´ll get the number of words in your translated file without too much work..
As I said, the problem was I needed characters+spaces count for a lang. editor.
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 18:28
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| But Trados delivers that data too... | Jan 12, 2004 |
After Trados anylysisi you get number of words, number of characters (without spaces AFAIK) and average number of characters per word.
This is easy to prove: multiply the number of words with the average number of characters per word. The result is nearly the same as the given number of all characters in text, what means, characters are given without spaces.
If you now add the number of characters and the number of word, you will get the number of characters INCLUNDING spaces, as usu... See more After Trados anylysisi you get number of words, number of characters (without spaces AFAIK) and average number of characters per word.
This is easy to prove: multiply the number of words with the average number of characters per word. The result is nearly the same as the given number of all characters in text, what means, characters are given without spaces.
If you now add the number of characters and the number of word, you will get the number of characters INCLUNDING spaces, as usually any word is followed by a space.
Thats all - so why bother with other methods, if you have all the results allready?
Kind redards
Jerzy ▲ Collapse
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