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Anonymizing some specific words before sending to MT
Thread poster: Philippe Locquet
Philippe Locquet
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Sep 5, 2021

Since many tools are now getting to offer options to add a glossary to influence MT output and avoid having to F/R after the fact, in some situations, this feature can be leveraged to anonymise what is sent to MT before the MT sees it, and I think this may be interesting to some of you. Let me explain:

Among tools I know that offer the function are: DeepL, Intento and GT4T. The only one handling that on your local machine is GT4T.

So, what happens with GT4T is that when... See more
Since many tools are now getting to offer options to add a glossary to influence MT output and avoid having to F/R after the fact, in some situations, this feature can be leveraged to anonymise what is sent to MT before the MT sees it, and I think this may be interesting to some of you. Let me explain:

Among tools I know that offer the function are: DeepL, Intento and GT4T. The only one handling that on your local machine is GT4T.

So, what happens with GT4T is that when you add a term to your glossary in GT4T (glossary stored on your computer), GT4T recognises the term in the source, replaces it with a GT4T tag and sends the sentence to MT with a tag instead of your glossary word. So, the MT you’re using never sees the glossary term and returns the translated sentence with the tag in it.

So, a use of that could be to add terms/name you wish to keep private on your local glossary so that the MT you’re connecting to never sees them.

I made a video about GT4T here: https://youtu.be/XgPhkUXUTis the process I described above is shown at 8:11 if you want to jump straight to it.
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Hans Lenting
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CafeTran Espresso ... again Sep 6, 2021

Philippe Locquet wrote:


Among tools I know that offer the function are: DeepL, Intento and GT4T. The only one handling that on your local machine is GT4T


CafeTran Espresso can mask words before sending segments them to MT engines. GT4T's feature was developed after CafeTran Espresso's introduction of the feature. For RWS Studio, a plugin exists.

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Philippe Locquet
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Cool Sep 6, 2021

German Dutch Engineering Translation wrote:
CafeTran Espresso can mask words before sending segments them to MT engines. GT4T's feature was developed after CafeTran Espresso's introduction of the feature. For RWS Studio, a plugin exists.


Thanks for that, you're right! (BTW, I meant MT tools, DeepL, Intento and GT4T are all straight MT tools or MT).
What I like about doing it this way is that it's not CAT-dependant, so that gives some flexibility.
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