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Yuhiko IZUMI Japan Local time: 15:38 English to Japanese + ...
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ありがとうございます
Jul 25, 2011
マイケルさん、ありがとうございます。 MS Wordでワードカウントができるのですが、差分のワードカウントはできなかったような気がします。でも、いただいた内容をもとにして、改めて挑戦してみます!
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Katalin Horváth McClure United States Local time: 02:38 Member (2002) English to Hungarian + ...
It is not a simple wordcount difference
Jul 25, 2011
Michael, Your method does not work, because what Izumi-san needs is not only the difference in the simple number of words, but the wordcount for all changes. Let me give you an example. "I ate an apple for lunch." - 6 words "I had a pear for dinner." - 6 words No change in the wordcount, right? But there are actually 3 words that were changed.
Or another example: "I ate an apple for lunch." - 6 words "I had a nice pear for dinner." - ... See more
Michael, Your method does not work, because what Izumi-san needs is not only the difference in the simple number of words, but the wordcount for all changes. Let me give you an example. "I ate an apple for lunch." - 6 words "I had a pear for dinner." - 6 words No change in the wordcount, right? But there are actually 3 words that were changed.
Or another example: "I ate an apple for lunch." - 6 words "I had a nice pear for dinner." - 7 words Wordcount difference: 1 word Real difference: 4 words.
A CAT-tool would be the most appropriate to count the changes. It would not count individual words, but would find sentences that are different, estimate the % of similarity, and categorize the sentence (using its total wordcount) based on that.
Although, I am not sure the purpose of counting the differences through several changes in the draft, but if Izumi-san has to process these files for translation, and the client wants to pay full rate only for the changes, I would suggest using a CAT-tool anyway to make sure the end product is consistent. If the changes are minimal, then a per-hour fee would be a good approach.
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