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Do you know about any software tool to count the number of identical segments in a document?
Thread poster: Rafał Kotlicki
Rafał Kotlicki
Rafał Kotlicki
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May 7, 2009

Hello,

do you know about any tool which makes it possible to count the number of identical segments in a document? I have this +40000 entry text with a lot of repetitions and need to calculate the actual (not total) number of entries. Thank you in advance!

Rafał

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Heinrich Pesch
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Any CAT-tool May 7, 2009

Run an analysis with Trados Workbench or Wordfast and it will show the percentage of repetitions. But do you need to know how many times a specific segment is repeated? That would be difficult.
Regards
Heinrich
 
Gerard de Noord
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Wordfast? May 7, 2009

Hi Rafał,

A Wordfast analyses reports e.g. this for each document and all documents.

Regards,
Gerard


Number of files: 6. Totals:
Analogy segments words char. %
---------------------------------------------------------
Repetitions 240 2292 15286 39%
100% 78 134 1019 2%
95%-99% 3 4 31 0... See more
Hi Rafał,

A Wordfast analyses reports e.g. this for each document and all documents.

Regards,
Gerard


Number of files: 6. Totals:
Analogy segments words char. %
---------------------------------------------------------
Repetitions 240 2292 15286 39%
100% 78 134 1019 2%
95%-99% 3 4 31 0%
85%-94% 2 30 219 1%
75%-84% 14 53 378 1%
00%-74% 315 3426 23243 58%
Total 652 5939 40176
=========================================================
Note: The character count includes spaces. ▲ Collapse
 
Adam Łobatiuk
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Excel would work too May 7, 2009

If you need to calculate unique segments, you can paste the content into Excel.

In Word, replace all full stops with ".^p", all colons with ":^p" and all tabs (^t) with just the paragraph symbol (^p). Remove all empty paragraphs, and paste everything into Excel. This should give you all segments in separate rows. Now go to Data - Filter - Advanced filter, and check the Only unique records checkbox.

You can paste that back into Word and get the unique wordcount.
 
Rafał Kotlicki
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Excel works May 8, 2009

Thank you all for your replies. Yes, I needed to calculate the exact number of unique segments. Adam, your way does the trick most of the time. Thanks!
 


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