Selecting Penalties

Penalties are defined to maintain high quality of the content leveraged from translation memory. A value is assigned to each of the penalties, which are taken into account to calculate the translation score. This score is used to differentiate between golden or 100 %, fuzzy and no match.

To select penalties:

1. Click the Preferences tab
   OR
   Press F9.

    

2. Click Penalties.
   The Penalties preferences appear.
   
   
    

   Enter values for penalties. Find below the list of penalties and description:

   Penalty	Description
   Case	Penalizes differences in case.
   Non literal	Penalizes differences in for punctuations, space, and special characters such apostrophes, dashes, and quotation marks.
   Tag	Penalizes differences in  tags.
   Whitespace	Penalizes differences in whitespaces.
   Align	Penalizes TUs with alignment attributes
   Machine translation	Penalizes TUs coming from MT (machine translation).
   Multiple translation	Penalizes TUs if there are duplicates within the TM with different translations
   Local TM	Penalizes TU from local desktop copy.
   Remote TM	Penalizes TU from remote TM.
   Private TU	Penalizes workgroup Translation Unit (TU) from TM
   Public TU	Penalizes non-workgroup TU from remote TM.
   Attribute	Penalizes if attributes differ.
   If attribute is not	Consider attribute name for penalization when the custom attribute in the TU. does not match the custom attribute in field.
   If filename attribute does not match	Penalizes TUs if the filename from the source file does not match the filename attribute