Glossary - PQRS

Format for the graphical user interface of software, such as dialog boxes, menus, shortcut keys, etc.

Additional documents for the translator that contain relevant supplementary or background information for the translation.

A regular expression is a text pattern made up of both normal characters (e.g. the letters from a to z) and special characters, so-called meta-characters. The pattern specifies one or more sequences of characters for which a match has to be found when scanning a text.

In Across, a relation is usually a customer, but may also be a partner, a country subsidiary, or a product or product group. It can be used to specify a project, a crossTank entry, or a crossTerm entry.

Translation workflow that calls for the source text to first be translated into a third language because no suitable translator is available for the direct translation.
Example: A document that needs to be translated from French to Japanese must first be translated from French to English because there is only a translator available to do the translation from English to Japanese.

Advanced text format whose formatting (font size, color, font) is also retained when the text is exchanged between different word-processing programs.

In the Windows operating system, screen saver programs generally use the file extension .scr.

The sentence alignment is performed e.g. if a paragraph translated in crossDesk is saved to crossTank. The paragraph is split into segments (e.g. sentences), and the associated source and target-language segments are stored as translation units, i.e. crossTank entries.

Technology for recognizing sentences within a continuous text using pre-defined rules for sentence, sentence length and/or sentence delimiters.

Under employment of crossGrid, designates the data stock of a Master Server or a Trusted Server.

SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is the "original ancestor" of all markup languages on whose basis other markup languages were developed. For example, HTML was derived from SGML.

Dient in Across der einfachen Verbindung von Across Clients mit dem Across Server sowie der Authentifizierung von Benutzern am Server.

A character that is usually not displayed; may be used for separating words. Apart from normal spaces, tabs are also considered white spaces.

Line of text that usually consists of 50-55 characters (with or without spaces). In Germany, counting standard lines is the most common basis for calculating prices.

Pre-defined words not to be recognized as term candidates (potential terms) during the term extraction (e.g., articles, fillers, conjunctions).

A term, that has the same meaning as another term and describes the same concept.