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Documentation (glossaries) — Google Cloud Translation
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- https://docs.cloud.google.com/translate/docs/advanced/glossary
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Glossary definition Report an error
“A glossary is a custom dictionary the Cloud Translation API uses to consistently translate the customer's domain-specific terminology.”
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Glossary types Report an error
“The Cloud Translation API supports both unidirectional glossaries, which specify the desired translation for a single pair of source and target languages, and equivalent term sets, which identify the equivalent terms in multiple languages.”
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Glossary file formats Report an error
“The Cloud Translation API accepts TSV, CSV or TMX files.”
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Glossary tmx version Report an error
“The Cloud Translation API supports input files in a format based on TMX version 1.4.”
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Equivalent term sets CSV only Report an error
“For equivalent term sets, Cloud Translation API only accepts files in the CSV format.”
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Glossary size limit Report an error
“The total number of terms in a glossary input file can't exceed 10.4 million (10,485,760) UTF-8 bytes for all terms in all the languages combined. Any single glossary term must be less than 1024 UTF-8 bytes.”
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Glossary case sensitivity Report an error
“By default, glossary matches are case sensitive. When you apply a glossary, you can ignore case for all entries.”
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Glossary version control Report an error
“Cloud Translation doesn't support version control on glossary resources.”
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Glossary stopwords Report an error
“Cloud Translation ignores some terms that are included in a glossary; these terms are known as stopwords.”
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Glossary multiple per project Report an error
“A project can have multiple glossaries.”
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Glossary storage source Report an error
“For creating glossaries, you also need permissions to read objects in the Cloud Storage bucket where your glossary file is located.”
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Contextual glossary llm only Report an error
“Translation LLM, NMT, and customized NMT models can be called in combination with glossary, but only Translation LLM supports the latest quality enhancement with contextual glossary.”
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Glossary term length Report an error
“The terms in a glossary can be single tokens (words) or short phrases (usually fewer than five words).”
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Glossary entry API Report an error
“You can add new entries to a glossary, list all of the entries for an existing glossary, or modify existing entries.”
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Glossary entry create limit Report an error
“You can create only one entry per request.”
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Glossary tmx invalid tu limit Report an error
“The Cloud Translation API also aborts processing if it skips more than 1024 invalid <tu> elements.”
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Glossary rest endpoints Report an error
“HTTP method and URL: POST https://translation.googleapis.com/v3/projects/PROJECT_NUMBER_OR_ID/locations/us-central1/glossaries”
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Glossary crud operations Report an error
“You can update a glossary to change its name or replace all of its entries with a new glossary input file.”
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Adaptive translation glossary Report an error
“To use a glossary with an adaptive translation request, include a glossary configuration with your request.”
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Content license Report an error
“the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.”
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