You can put both terminology pairs and previously translated source and target segments into your prompt. Terminology pairs help the AI use your preferred terms; translated segments give it examples of your project’s translated style and sentence structure.
For terminology, copy the entries you need from your termbase, or export the relevant terminology and open it in Excel. Then copy the source and target columns into the prompt. Keep each pair together, preferably on its own line, separated by a descriptive symbol or a tab.
Add an instruction such as:
“Use the following terminology when translating this project. Each line contains a source term followed by its approved target-language equivalent.”
For multiple translated segment pairs, ordinary copying from memoQ’s translation grid may not give you both columns in the format you need. There is a workflow for adding multiple segments individually, described in the last section of The CotranslatorAI Guide.
Another workaround I’ve used is ABBYY Screenshot Reader. Capture the relevant source and target rows in your CAT-tool editor, extract the text with OCR, and paste it into the prompt. You can use another OCR tool if you prefer. You don’t need to export the entire bilingual document for this approach. Just capture the rows you want to use as reference. Check the extracted text for recognition errors and make sure each source segment is clearly paired with its translation.
Then add an instruction such as:
“The following source and target segment pairs are approved translations from this project. Use them as reference examples for terminology, style, and sentence structure when translating new segments.”
Another option is to keep an exported bilingual file open alongside your project and copy only the relevant sections into the prompt. Although this involves an initial export, it can be more convenient than repeatedly capturing text from the CAT-tool grid.
