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Erik Freitag Germany Local time: 03:45 Member (2006) Dutch to German + ...
Feb 22, 2018
Dear colleagues,
This may not be the best forum for my question, but here goes:
I'm looking for a convenient way to extract all acronyms/abbreviations from the source text, by which I basically (as a working definition) mean words that are not found in standard monolingual dictionaries and are written in capitals.
Ideally, I'd like to have them exported as a list, possibly with the whole sentence they appear in for context.
This may not be the best forum for my question, but here goes:
I'm looking for a convenient way to extract all acronyms/abbreviations from the source text, by which I basically (as a working definition) mean words that are not found in standard monolingual dictionaries and are written in capitals.
Ideally, I'd like to have them exported as a list, possibly with the whole sentence they appear in for context.
If anyone know a way to achieve this with SDL Trados Studio 2017, TermExtract, or third party software, I'd be grateful for a hint.
Many thanks in advance, kind regards, Erik ▲ Collapse
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Adam Łobatiuk Poland Local time: 03:45 Member (2009) English to Polish + ...
With Word
Feb 22, 2018
For a rough list of acronyms with capital letters, you can copy and paste the text in MS Word, search with wildcards for <[A-Z]{2;}> (see note below) and replace with just bold formatting, and then search (without wildcards) for non-bold formatting and replace with ^p. That should leave you with just 2-letter or longer words in ALL CAPS with line breaks.
In the regular expression, you may need to use {2,} instead of {2;} depending on your system settings.
For a rough list of acronyms with capital letters, you can copy and paste the text in MS Word, search with wildcards for <[A-Z]{2;}> (see note below) and replace with just bold formatting, and then search (without wildcards) for non-bold formatting and replace with ^p. That should leave you with just 2-letter or longer words in ALL CAPS with line breaks.
In the regular expression, you may need to use {2,} instead of {2;} depending on your system settings.
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