Translation segments are a piece of text that a CAT tool handles separately from others. They may be a sentence or software string. Get more details here!
A piece of text that a CAT tool handles separately from others. In common translation, a segment is most often identical to a sentence. In software localization, it can be either a sentence or a whole string, even if it includes several sentences. This behavior is often configurable. The process of splitting a piece of content into segments is called parsing.
Example: Text parsed into segments in Smartcat's built-in editor.
Also known as parsing.
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This explainer is written by our localization team, edited for clarity, and reviewed by a Smartcat solutions engineer before publishing. We update it as terminology and tooling evolve.
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