I recently downloaded the JRC-ACQUIS Multilingual Parallel Corpus from http://wt.jrc.it/lt/Acquis/ because I do a lot of translation that deals with EU matters.

Has anyone been able to import this into a TM?

I followed the directions on the website, and get a giant XML file that looks like:

<link type="1:1" xtargets="3;3">
<s1>THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,</s1>
<s2>LE CONSEIL DES COMMUNAUTÉS EUROPÉENNES,</s2>
</link>
<link type="1:1" xtargets="4;4">
<s1>of the one part, and</s1>
<s2>d'une part,</s2>
</link>
<link type="1:1" xtargets="5;5">
<s1>THE SWISS FEDERAL COUNCIL,</s1>
<s2>LE CONSEIL FÉDÉRAL SUISSE,</s2>
</link>

I have Deja Vu, but am not sure how to align it since the source and target are all in the same file.  I also have OmegaT installed as well.

Really, any advice would be appreciated...

Thanks,

John

Thanks Dragomir...

After looking a bit more into this, there are two sets of data over there... one is the TMX one and the other is the one I was referring to.

I went with this choice because the page @ http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html said:

What is the difference between the DGT Translation Memory and the JRC-Acquis

The two resources are rather similar in nature as they are both based on the Acquis Communautaire, but they are not identical and can both serve different purposes. The main differences are the following:

• The collection of documents of both resources should mostly be the same, but they are not identical as both resources were collected in different ways. None of the resources is exactly equivalent to the Acquis Communautaire. The criteria for the collection of the JRC-Acquis were rather loose (all documents were collected which were available in at least ten languages of which at least three 'new' EU languages) so that the JRC-Acquis is bigger.

So that being said, that automated tool seems only to work with the DGT TM.

I've been able to use a script to get the terms into a TMX format with some ugly hacking.  I also have it so that there are two files, one source, one target that has a term on each line.

The problem is that no TM tool I find can deal with a 100MB text file.  Deja Vu crashes right away. Stingray just runs forever.  I killed it after 3 hours.

I looked at OmegaT, but that too crashes.

And Oliphant looks nice, but I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to import two aligned files.

Does anyone know of a tool that can handle large text files for importing?

Thanks,
John

Normally, OmegaT should handle a 100 MB TMX.

What memory had you allocated to OmegaT (and under which operating system)?

Didier