Hello memoQ 10.3!

LiveDocs on memoQweb

We are constantly improving and adding new functionality to memoQweb so that project participants can collaborate more effectively online and project managers can take advantage of a full project management workflow. As a next step, we are adding LiveDocs to the available resources for online projects. Project managers can now add or remove LiveDocs corpora that are available on the server to and from the associated projects. Look out for more functionality to come in future releases!

Rename projects on memoQweb

Based on our users’ feedback and suggestions, memoQ project managers and server administrators are now allowed to rename projects on memoQweb.

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Concordance in TM+

With the new Guess translation function, concordance can be used to find the translation of a word or expression that's not included in your term bases. From memoQ 10.3 on, this feature is also available in TM+ as well as classic translation memories.

User roles in TM+

Storing user roles for TM entries or importing/converting TM entries with user roles has become possible in TM+.

When a user changes an existing TM entry, that existing entry will be overwritten, along with its user role. In the case of a TMX import or TM+ conversion, if there are multiple versions of translations for the same source segment modified by different user roles, then memoQ picks the entry that has the “most valuable” user role.

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The ICR tool in memoQ 10.3 will feature the following:

• A new ICR configuration option for the PM: An ICR user can now be configured to edit and comment, rather than just comment. The PM can also configure whether or not the edits made by the ICR users are displayed with tracked changes (the ICR user can switch between the two views in the ICR editor).
• My Review Tasks page: We have added a simplified version of the My Tasks page in WebTrans, accessible from any ICR document by clicking the back arrow in the top left corner or shown as the default page for the ICR user when directly logging in to the memoQ TMS.
• If you have images for terms, these are now also displayed on the Terms side panel.
• Users can insert terms displayed on the Terms panel into the target segment of the active row (except for forbidden terms).
• Replace is now available in addition to Find.
• Under the Help menu, the Keyboard shortcuts dialog offers users a quick reference tool.

From memoQ 10.3 on, you will have a distinct import option when uploading reference files into LiveDocs rather than needing to check the Import as binary option in the import filter. We have also added a Description field for all LiveDocs documents (including reference files) to make it easier for PMs to communicate the value of each corpus document to linguists without writing a lengthy explanatory email.

Moreover, reference files of any source language can be uploaded to a LiveDocs corpus in a project, thereby allowing a greater variety of reference files (e.g., a Swedish IKEA catalog can now be uploaded to an English-German project). All reference files in a project are available to all project participants, regardless of the document languages and the users' assignments, thereby allowing for more diversity of reference files.

These improvements were designed while working on the In-country review tool, but they are also available to all users working with LiveDocs documents.

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The scope of the backup has become more versatile to reduce disk space, optimize speed, and enhance performance. Users can now freely configure the backup scope by choosing which files to back up and, if your enterprise data warehouse is handling a memoQ database, decide whether the database needs to be backed up. This helps optimize performance and ensures that memoQ is fully aligned with your organization’s data management policies.

Finally, the code has been separated from the Deployment Tool. This eliminates the potential failure of the backup if the Deployment Tool is left running on the server when a scheduled backup is due.

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Google Advanced MT plugin renewal for Native models

Google’s machine learning infrastructure is changing. The custom models of Google’s machine learning platform (AutoML) have a new shape and form. The former models have become obsolete (called Legacy models), and the new models are now called Native models.

We have upgraded the plugin to enable you to work with the custom models of the renewed AutoML service. The renewed plugin now includes both Legacy and Native models.

Google Advanced MT - added PEM certificate authentication option

For enhanced security, users can now use the Google Advanced MT plugin with their own PEM certificate to encrypt the translation data traveling between memoQ and Google.

Expose Edit Distance Report to WebPM

Edit distance reports are used to show you how much work has been done by translators and reviewers, and how good your supporting technologies (TMs and MT) are. When generating the edit distance report, memoQ computes the amount of editing required to transform the source text into the target text. Edit distance reports are now available in WebPM.

Plugin chunked download through WCF

We renewed the MT plugins' data communication between the memoQ server and the memoQ desktop client to make it faster and more reliable.

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• Adjust default behavior for security measures
  The suggested default password settings have been improved on the memoQ server.
• WebTrans accessibility improvements
  • When displaying the translation results, the screen reader software can communicate to the user the selected translation result as well as its percentage value.
  • WebTrans will remember the state of accessibility mode after you’ve refreshed the screen.
• Introducing lookaround in Regex Tagger
  By defining regular expressions, you can convert parts of the text into inline tags. You can create regexes subsequently, but so far, the subsequent regex rules have been applied to the text that had already been converted by a previous regex. The new functionality allows you to write regexes with lookahead and lookbehind components and make the original text available to subsequential regex rules.
• Locking/Unlocking possible in online projects (memoQweb)
  The Locking/unlocking ability (introduced in memoQ 10.2) is now also available in memoQweb.
• Support TM+ in package workflow
  When a filtered package (one TMX has been created from one or more relevant TMs of a project) is being imported, the newly created TM will become a classic TM if at least one of the original TMs was a Classic TM, or a TM+ if all original TMs were TM+s.
• CORS support for CMS API
  CMS API is now enabled to work securely with applications with web-based GUI. Integrating the latter systems with memoQ becomes easier while keeping security at the forefront of the integrations.