Prompting

Overview

The prompt that is passed to an TMS or an LLM translation connection is a combination of:

• The Translation Connection Level prompt. For example: As a professional translator, translate an application user interface text from English to Latin. Special considerations for UI: Brevity is crucial, Clarity over creativity, Consistency with UI patterns, Action-oriented language. Return only the translated text-no explanation.
• The Project Level Prompt: For example: The application is Globalyzer and Localyzer described here https://lingoport.com/software-localization-tools/localyzer-l10n/
• If InContext Server has astring associated image, that image for that string: For example: Strings
• The text to translation: For example: Strings

The resulting prompt without an image:

 As a professional translator, translate an application user interface text from English to Latin. Special considerations for UI: Brevity is crucial, Clarity over creativity, Consistency with UI patterns, Action-oriented language. Return only the translated text-no explanation. The application is Globalyzer and Localyzer described here https://lingoport.com/software-localization-tools/localyzer-l10n/. Now translate the following: Strings

If an image is associated, the prompt will include:

The PXML section will look like:

Translation Connection Level

Prompting can be passed to

• a TMS - e.g. Trados Enterprise - using PXML
• an LLM connection - e.g. ChatGPT

Example

The Translation Connection Level prompt is set here:

Note: The variables ${SOURCE_LOCALE} and ${TARGET_LOCALE} must be part of the prompt.

Context Prompting

If the ChatGPT connection is configured with an InContext server, then when a context has been associated with a string (See String Manager / Context), the context will be passed to ChatGPT to provide the necessary information to better translate that string.