Description

This article is a step by step guide on pivot profile creation for Systran V9 Enterprise Server. The pivot profile creation will depend on your licence, you should have this option in your license to be able to create it.

A pivot profile is a combination of 2 profiles with a common language (which will become the pivot language), in order to propose a new translation direction, not available “as is” among the Translation Resources.

In SPN9, you have 2 ways to achieve a Pivot Profile :
1) From the 'Advanced Configuration' menu.
2) From the 'Profiles' menu.

Note that Creating a pivot from the 'Advanced Configuration' menu requires SPN9 version 9.5

Pre-requisite

You must have 1 profile for each of this language pairs under 'Profile Editing' tab. If you do not have them, then create them first.

In below steps and examples you will see that I will create a Pivot profile from German to Portuguese (DEPT) from two languages DEEN & ENPT, so here English is the common language.

Procedure

1) Below is an example of Pivot creation from the Advanced Configuration menu

1.1. Click on Create Pivot and wait for the new window to pop up

1.2. On the new screen choose the language directions carefully.

In this example we are creating German to Portuguese or DEPT Pivot. Hence, we will choose DEEN first and the ENPT afterwards, so the flow of the translation will be DE -> EN -> PT

Next click on submit button

1.3. Now look for the newly created resource, you will see that the Pivot engine created will appear in your search.

1.4. Add one instance and create a profile from this Pivot TR and you can try the new pivot translation.

2) Below is an example of Pivot creation from the 'Profiles' menu

2.1. On the new screen choose the language directions carefully and in the right order

In this example we are creating Russian to German or RUDE Pivot. Hence, we will choose RUEN first and the ENDE afterwards so the flow of the translation will be RU -> EN -> DE