Getting Started with Linguistic ToolBoxLTB Getting Started Guide for Translation Partners v. 15 Contents Getting Started with Linguistic ToolBox ................................................................................... 1 How to Install LTB .................................................................................................................. 2 1. System Requirements ................................................................................................ 2 2. Installing Linguistic ToolBox ....................................................................................... 4 What is the Linguistic ToolBox Core Configuration? ............................................................. 5 How to Work with a Linguistic ToolBox Customized Configuration or with the Core .......... 7 How to Work with the LTB Output Reports ........................................................................ 13 Lionbridge Confidential go to Configure and then select the Options tab. You can download and install it from the following link: . In order to optimize LTB’s performance and to better manage resources to provide users with new features and capabilities. but correct tool behavior is not guaranteed.5. 1.Net Framework 4.5.NET Framework 4.2 How to Install LTB 1.3 Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2003. 2. 3. Windows 8 or Windows 10. Important Notes: Windows XP is no longer supported by LTB since ver.0. Under Virtual Machine. Lionbridge Confidential 2 . Linguistic ToolBox can no longer support Windows XP.NET Framework 4.NET cannot run on Windows XP. if you wish to use LTB in a Mac environment with Parallels Desktop installed. Some minor testing has been done under Microsoft Windows 2000.1 Operating System LTB has been tested under the following environments: Windows Vista. Microsoft Office 2010. Microsoft Office 2007.2 Microsoft . This version of . Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 365 is required. Mac is not an officially supported environment. Windows 7.1. you need to follow these steps: 1. 1. make sure that you meet the following requirements: 1. select Sharing in the left panel and ensure that this option is disabled: Share Mac user folders with Windows. and therefore no testing is done in this environment.5. the new releases of Linguistic ToolBox use Microsoft . Under the Options tab. System Requirements Before installing Linguistic ToolBox (LTB).1.1 or higher is required. consequently. However.NET Framework Microsoft .9. They will provide you with special Translation Workspace login details that will enable you to use LTB. “Install on first use” will not work.4 Translation Workspace In order to use Linguistic ToolBox. and it will not work with previous versions of Microsoft Office. Lionbridge Confidential 3 .3 Important Notes: LTB uses features available only in Microsoft Office 2003 or later.com All translators/reviewers using LTB should already have the required Translation Workspace credentials. you need to provide your Translation Workspace: o o o o Username Password Tenancy Server Address: translate. 1. the Office features need to be installed on your hard drive prior to the installation of LTB. Important Note: If you don’t need to have a Translation Workspace subscription for the work that you do for Lionbridge but you still need to use Linguistic ToolBox.translationworkspace. please contact your Lionbridge project team. Unzip the Linguistic ToolBox. LTB will connect to the AutoUpdate server to check if you have the latest version. Note: LTB has AutoUpdate functionality. double-click the Installer.lionbridge. Installing Linguistic ToolBox LTB can be installed from the following URL: http://autoupdate. if not. click on the green down arrow. Lionbridge Confidential 4 . so every time you open LTB on your computer. you can be sure that everybody is using the latest version of the tool. In the Download now! section.4 2.com/ltb3/.zip file.exe file and follow the installation steps. it will automatically download the latest LTB files from the server. In this way. The Core configuration should ONLY be used for those situations where the project team has not provided a customized configuration file for your project or account. What is the Linguistic ToolBox Core Configuration? The Linguistic ToolBox Core is a Linguistic ToolBox configuration file that has been only created with the sole purpose to serve as an “entry-level” or “basic” approach to automated quality control for unclean files. UI consistency. When you load this zip file from the File menu in Linguistic ToolBox. Important Note: The recommended way to use Linguistic ToolBox is always with a customized configuration. This can include customized rules for glossary or style guide compliance.5 What is a Linguistic ToolBox Customized Configuration? A Linguistic ToolBox configuration file is a zip file that contains all the Linguistic ToolBox settings necessary for each component and the support files that are required to perform a set of automated linguistic checks. it loads all or most of the needed settings to carry out linguistic checks for a particular batch of work. such as adherence to a glossary. A customized configuration includes checks that are oriented to meet the most important quality requirements for a particular project or account. Therefore you should ONLY use the Linguistic ToolBox Core for the cases where a customized configuration is not available for a particular account or project. style guide. etc. Lionbridge Confidential 5 . as customized configurations are specifically designed with a view to enforce specific customer requirements. Usually a customized configuration file will be provided by the Lionbridge project team for a specific batch or work for your project or account. When provided with a customized configuration file for a specific project or account. as it does not contain those checks that need to be customized in order to enforce key customer’s requirements such as compliance with a customer glossary. etc. specific settings for the Segment Checker. without intending to meet specific customer’s requirements. please save this configuration file on your computer and use this customized configuration for checking your files before your deliverable to Lionbridge. style guide or guidelines about how to deal with product names. since the Core does not provide with a comprehensive quality control check. 6 The Linguistic ToolBox Core is provided as a separate LTB Configuration file with the Linguistic ToolBox standard installation and only includes these checks without addressing any customer specific requirements: Segment Checker component Check inconsistency Check if target is empty Check if source equals target Spelling component Run spell check on target segment Use MS word spell checker Term & Punctuation component Duplicated words Punctuation Spacing Numbers Dates Copyright marks CaMeL words URLs Tags Lionbridge Confidential 6 . in the left hand panel. If the language settings are not defined correctly before you open the LTB configuration file. Important Note: LTB uses these language settings to include/exclude Term & Punctuation rule files while loading the configuration. In LTB. select your relevant Source and Target language from the drop-down list. This is especially important if you work with LTB for several languages. under Languages.7 How to Work with a Linguistic ToolBox Customized Configuration or with the Core 1. the proper set of languagedependent rules will not be loaded. Lionbridge Confidential 7 . 8 Note: If you only work with a single language pair. your default language settings will appear automatically under the Languages area in the left hand panel of LTB. This way each time that you start up LTB. it is convenient to set your Default source language and Default target language in File > Preferences. go to the File menu and select Load Configuration. Lionbridge Confidential 8 . To load the configuration file. In the Input Files tab. including the Term & Punctuation rules that are applicable to your language pair. then use the Core. b) If you have not received any customized configuration from the project team. LTB loads the configuration. enabling the correct components and settings.zip and click Load. simply select LTB_Core_config. To do this.9 On the Local tab: a) If you have received a customized configuration file from the Lionbridge project team. add the files you want to run the LTB configuration checks on. either copy and paste the path to the folder where the customized configuration has been saved or click on the Browse button to browse to the location of the customized configuration. Lionbridge Confidential 9 . Select the relevant customized configuration and click on Load. To add additional dictionaries. If your target language is Japanese. If no dictionary file exists for your language. Chinese or Thai. click the Add button and browse to the location of the dictionary (. you will see by default the appropriate LTB dictionary for the target language automatically. then spell-checking is not possible and you should deselect the Spelling component. if necessary.xpl) file. Lionbridge Confidential 10 . create an empty one.10 In the Spelling tab. since LTB requires this in order to be able to communicate with the MS Word spell-checker. then click on Done.11 Note: You must have Microsoft Word spell-checking support installed for the target language. In the Dictionary Editor. The “New Dictionary” file will be displayed in the Dictionaries list. You can verify whether MS Word spell-checking is available for a language by looking for a little “ABC” check icon next to the language name in Word's Language dialog box: Microsoft Word 2003 and below Microsoft Word 2010 and above If you need to create an empty LTB dictionary. Select the new dictionary and click on the Edit button. Click Start. type the name for the dictionary (to be displayed in the Dictionaries list) and select the desired language from the drop-down list under Language. proceed as follows: Click on the New button in the Spelling tab. Save the new . Lionbridge Confidential 11 .xpl file you are creating with the desired name in the desired location. Click the Save Changes button. Set the name of the LTB output report file in the Report text box at the bottom of the LTB window. click on OK. Browse to the location of an LTB output report. choose Microsoft Excel and select Always use the selected program to open this kind of file. each time you click on View in LTB. check the Log tab to make sure that no file was skipped due to unhandled errors. right click on the file name and select Open with. Then.12 After LTB has finished. In order to see the LTB output report. From now on. please follow these additional steps to be able to view the LTB output reports in Microsoft Excel. Then. Note: If your LTB output report does not open automatically in Microsoft Excel or if it is the first time that you run LTB. click on the View button. the output report will automatically open in Microsoft Excel. Lionbridge Confidential 12 . save. Please review carefully each of the entries in the LTB output report." for Office 2003 or to "Excel Workbook (*. etc. re-save it as a conventional workbook: Select Save As.13 How to Work with the LTB Output Reports The Linguistic ToolBox output is an XML report that includes all the “potential issues” found in the input files. from the File menu. In the Save As dialog box.xlsx)" for Office 2007 or above.xml extension as default.).. This makes it slower than a conventional XLS workbook file (slower to open. Mark to identify entries that do need to be corrected or verified in the translation. filter. You can open this output only in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or above. change the setting for Save as type: to "Microsoft Office Excel Workbook (*.xls). After opening the report.. selecting under the Ignore? column of the report only one of the two allowed values: Ignore to identify entries that are not real errors and therefore do not need to be corrected in the translation. Lionbridge Confidential 13 . Note: The Linguistic ToolBox report is created as an XML Spreadsheet file with . based on the specified checks in the configuration. Before sending the LTB Output report back to the project team. and nothing else. please refer to the LTB Helper Quick User Guide in the Help folder of your LTB installation (typically at this location: C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\LinguisticToolbox\Help). always ensure all entries have been reviewed adding under the Ignore? column either Ignore or Mark. Once you have finalized commenting the LTB output reports. Important Note: LTB output reports are always part of the deliverable for all projects where LTB is a requirement. This tool automatically groups similar types of issues together in the LTB output reports to allow users to automatically add a comment under the Ignore? column of the reports to designate each entry as either Mark or Ignore.14 Remember: Under the Ignore? column you can only enter one of the two pre-defined values. Ignore or Mark. LTB Helper is an add-in tool that has been developed in order to reduce the time and effort required for Linguistic ToolBox users to distinguish valid issues from false positives in the Linguistic ToolBox output report. Lionbridge Confidential 14 . When working with LTB output reports that contain a large number of entries. Note: For information on how to work with the Linguistic ToolBox output reports with the LTB Helper. we recommend processing the report with the LTB Helper. filter under the Ignore? column by Mark and implement all the relevant corrections in your unclean files before your deliverable to Lionbridge. com). then select Linguistic ToolBox and click on Training. Here you will find the following information: Introduction to Linguistic ToolBox for Partners (Recorded presentation including a demo) Getting Started with Linguistic ToolBox Frequently Asked Questions If you need support with this tool. Lionbridge Confidential 15 . go to the Lionbridge Service Partner Portal (http://partners. select the Lionbridge Tools & Processes section.15 Where to Find More Information on LTB To find more information about LTB. enter your username and password. please contact your Lionbridge project team.lionbridge.
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