Connecting XTM Cloud to your Amazon Translate MT engine
Select Configuration > Settings > Translation.
Select the Machine translation tab.
In the MT engines section, select the Amazon Translate checkbox.
Result: The Amazon Translate section is displayed below the General options section.
In the Amazon Translate section, fill the relevant fields:
Table 29. Amazon Translate – configuration parametersParameter
Description
Mandatory/Optional
Type
Valid values
Default setting
Use this parameter to specify whether this MT engine should automatically be enabled at customer and project level.
Optional
Checkbox
Cleared (default).
If you select this setting, Project Managers need to select the relevant checkbox to use this MT engine at customer and project level.
Selected.
If you select this setting, this MT engine is automatically selected at customer and project level. Project Managers need to clear the relevant checkbox to disable this MT engine at customer and project level.
AWS access key ID
Your access key for AWS.
Mandatory
Text field
Alphanumeric
AWS secret access key
Your secret access key for AWS.
Mandatory
Text field
Alphanumeric
Use Amazon custom terminology
You can use your Amazon Translate custom terminology in XTM Cloud projects.
Optional
Checkbox
Valid values:
Cleared (default).
Selected.
If you select this setting, after synchronizing the Amazon MT, to display the Amazon Custom Terminology popup, select View.
Send text for matching
Use this parameter to specify the stage at which content is to be sent to the MT engine.
Mandatory
Radio buttons
Valid values:
In XTM Workbench (default).
If you select this setting, the text is only sent to an MT engine when a user enters a segment in XTM Workbench in Edit mode. The translation is provided on a segment-to-segment basis.
After analysis.
If you select this setting, the whole text is sent to MT matching during project analysis. When the user enters XTM Workbench, all segments are filled with MT matches.
After analysis and in XTM Workbench.
If you select this setting, the whole text is sent to MT matching during project analysis. The text can be resent to the MT on a segment-to-segment basis as in the In XTM Workbench option.
Use auto inline tag placement
This feature uses the XTM NLP framework for the automatic placement of inline tags in the machine translation.
Mandatory
Radio buttons
Valid values:
Never (default).
If you select this setting, the inline tags are NOT processed by the auto-insert mechanism. XTM Cloud retains the structure of the inline tags inside matches as received from the MT.
Only incorrect inline tags.
If you select this setting, the inline tags are sent to an MT engine and the auto-insert mechanism only works for MT matches that have an incorrect inline tag structure, for example:
too many inline tags in a match.
missing or too few inline tags in a match.
Always.
If you select this setting, after receiving the translation from MT system, the auto-insert mechanism works for all matches received from MT.
Select Synchronize.
At the bottom of the page, select Save.
Result: Amazon Translate MT engine is displayed in the Configuration > Settings > Translation > Machine Translation section.
Project Managers can enable or disable Amazon Translate MT at customer level. They can also add Amazon Translate MT to a new project while creating it, or to an existing one in the Project Editor. Additionally, they can enable or disable Amazon Translate MT for the relevant project template(s).