Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: Word count analysis – 15% fewer words than in Trados?
Poster: Carl Carter
Post title: This is what the online help says...
Hi Lukasz,
Perhaps this page of the online help documentation will help explain the differences between memoQ and Trados in terms of word counts:
[url removed]
(You can also call it up by pressing F1 when you're in memoQ.)
This section looks particularly relevant:
"Word counts section:
• memoQ: Check this check box to display memoQ word counts.
Note: In memoQ, similarly to Microsoft® Excel®, every string or character that is between whitespaces is counted as a word. Therefore in memoQ mode you always count numbers as a single word and hyphenated words like in-bound are also considered to be a single word. [CC: my own emphasis]
• TRADOS-like: Check this check box to display Trados-like word counts. SDL Trados® is another CAT tool on the market that handles word counts differently. [CC: I wonder if there's any difference in the way Trados 2007 and Studio 2011 count words or characters. Anyone know?]
Note: In Trados, numbers are only counted as words when they are within a segment, and a number of other rules apply. In Trados®, segmentation is a factor in word count, i.e. you can get a different word count if the same text appears in one or two lines. Trados® segmentation rules are not public, therefore there is usually a small discrepancy between the word counts of Trados® and Trados-mode memoQ. In most of the cases, this discrepancy does not exceed 1.5%. We suggest that you only use Trados-like word counts if your client explicitly requires you to do so."
Well, I'd say the upshot is that you need to agree on a basis for doing word counts, be it memoQ 5, 6, 6.2, 2013 or Trados 2007/Studio 2009, Studio 2011 or whatever (even Word or a text editor can be used).
If you want to find out why memoQ counts the way it does, I'd get it touch with Support at Kilgray if I were you.
Regards
Carl
Topic: Word count analysis – 15% fewer words than in Trados?
Poster: Carl Carter
Post title: This is what the online help says...
Hi Lukasz,
Perhaps this page of the online help documentation will help explain the differences between memoQ and Trados in terms of word counts:
[url removed]
(You can also call it up by pressing F1 when you're in memoQ.)
This section looks particularly relevant:
"Word counts section:
• memoQ: Check this check box to display memoQ word counts.
Note: In memoQ, similarly to Microsoft® Excel®, every string or character that is between whitespaces is counted as a word. Therefore in memoQ mode you always count numbers as a single word and hyphenated words like in-bound are also considered to be a single word. [CC: my own emphasis]
• TRADOS-like: Check this check box to display Trados-like word counts. SDL Trados® is another CAT tool on the market that handles word counts differently. [CC: I wonder if there's any difference in the way Trados 2007 and Studio 2011 count words or characters. Anyone know?]
Note: In Trados, numbers are only counted as words when they are within a segment, and a number of other rules apply. In Trados®, segmentation is a factor in word count, i.e. you can get a different word count if the same text appears in one or two lines. Trados® segmentation rules are not public, therefore there is usually a small discrepancy between the word counts of Trados® and Trados-mode memoQ. In most of the cases, this discrepancy does not exceed 1.5%. We suggest that you only use Trados-like word counts if your client explicitly requires you to do so."
Well, I'd say the upshot is that you need to agree on a basis for doing word counts, be it memoQ 5, 6, 6.2, 2013 or Trados 2007/Studio 2009, Studio 2011 or whatever (even Word or a text editor can be used).
If you want to find out why memoQ counts the way it does, I'd get it touch with Support at Kilgray if I were you.
Regards
Carl