<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
is	O
a	O
computer-assisted	B-Application
translation	I-Application
tool	I-Application
written	O
in	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Keith	O
Godfrey	O
in	O
2000	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
currently	O
developed	O
by	O
a	O
team	O
led	O
by	O
Aaron	O
Madlon-Kay	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
is	O
intended	O
for	O
professional	O
translators	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
features	O
include	O
customisable	O
segmentation	O
using	O
regular	B-Language
expressions	I-Language
,	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
with	O
fuzzy	O
matching	O
and	O
match	O
propagation	O
,	O
glossary	O
matching	O
,	O
dictionary	O
matching	O
,	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
and	O
reference	O
material	O
searching	O
,	O
and	O
inline	O
spell-checking	O
using	O
Hunspell	B-Application
spelling	O
dictionaries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
runs	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
macOS	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
and	O
Solaris	B-Application
,	O
and	O
requires	O
Java	B-Language
8	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
a	O
survey	O
in	O
2010	O
among	O
458	O
professional	O
translators	B-Application
,	O
OmegaT	B-Language
is	O
used	O
1/3	O
as	O
much	O
as	O
Wordfast	B-Language
,	O
Déjà	B-Application
Vu	I-Application
and	O
MemoQ	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
1/8	O
as	O
much	O
as	O
the	O
market	O
leader	O
Trados	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
was	O
first	O
developed	O
by	O
Keith	O
Godfrey	O
in	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
public	O
release	O
in	O
February	O
2001	O
was	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
version	O
used	O
a	O
proprietary	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
could	O
translate	O
unformatted	O
text	O
files	O
,	O
and	O
HTML	B-Language
,	O
and	O
perform	O
only	O
block-level	O
segmentation	O
(	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
of	O
OmegaT	B-Language
is	O
hosted	O
on	O
SourceForge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
with	O
many	O
open	O
source	O
projects	O
,	O
new	O
versions	O
of	O
OmegaT	B-Language
are	O
released	O
frequently	O
,	O
usually	O
with	O
2-3	O
bugfixes	O
and	O
feature	O
updates	O
each	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
handles	O
a	O
translation	O
job	O
as	O
a	O
project	O
,	O
a	O
hierarchy	O
of	O
folders	O
with	O
specific	O
names	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
,	O
when	O
directed	O
,	O
generates	O
the	O
(	O
partially	O
)	O
translated	O
versions	O
in	O
the	O
/target/	O
subfolder	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
user	O
goes	O
to	O
translate	O
a	O
segment	O
in	O
the	O
Editor	O
pane	O
,	O
OmegaT	B-Language
automatically	O
searches	O
the	O
.tmx	O
files	O
in	O
the	O
/tm/	O
hierarchy	O
for	O
previous	O
translation	O
pairs	O
with	O
similar	O
source	O
sentences	O
and	O
displays	O
them	O
in	O
the	O
Fuzzy	O
Matches	O
pane	O
for	O
insertion	O
into	O
the	O
Editor	O
pane	O
with	O
a	O
keyboard	O
shortcut	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
optional	O
Machine	O
Translation	O
pane	O
shows	O
machine	O
translations	O
from	O
Google	B-Application
Translate	I-Application
and	O
similar	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
user	O
leaves	O
a	O
segment	O
,	O
OmegaT	B-Language
normally	O
first	O
adds	O
the	O
source-target	O
pair	O
to	O
its	O
database	O
in	O
memory	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
subsequently	O
saves	O
that	O
database	O
to	O
disk	O
in	O
Translation	B-General_Concept
Memory	I-General_Concept
eXchange	O
(	O
.tmx	O
)	O
format	O
for	O
use	O
another	O
day	O
,	O
in	O
other	O
projects	O
,	O
by	O
other	O
translators	B-Application
,	O
and	O
even	O
with	O
other	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Note	O
that	O
OmegaT	B-Language
copies	O
source	O
segments	O
verbatim	O
if	O
they	O
have	O
yet	O
to	O
be	O
translated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
shares	O
many	O
features	O
with	O
mainstream	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
include	O
creating	O
,	O
importing	O
and	O
exporting	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memories	I-General_Concept
,	O
fuzzy	O
matching	O
from	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memories	I-General_Concept
,	O
glossary	O
look-up	O
,	O
and	O
reference	O
and	O
concordance	O
searching	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
also	O
has	O
additional	O
features	O
that	O
are	O
not	O
always	O
available	O
in	O
other	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
starts	O
by	O
displaying	O
a	O
short	O
tutorial	O
called	O
"	O
Instant	O
Start	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
can	O
translate	O
multiple	O
files	O
in	O
multiple	O
file	O
formats	O
in	O
multiple	O
subfolders	O
simultaneously	O
,	O
and	O
consult	O
multiple	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memories	I-General_Concept
,	O
glossaries	O
and	O
dictionaries	O
(	O
limited	O
only	O
by	O
available	O
computer	O
memory	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
regard	O
to	O
supported	O
file	O
types	O
,	O
OmegaT	B-Language
allows	O
the	O
user	O
to	O
customise	O
file	O
extensions	O
and	O
file	O
encodings	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
in	O
OpenOffice.org	O
Writer	O
files	O
,	O
choose	O
whether	O
to	O
include	O
bookmarks	O
;	O
in	O
Microsoft	O
Office	O
2007/2010	O
files	O
,	O
choose	O
whether	O
to	O
translate	O
footnotes	O
;	O
or	O
in	O
HTML	B-Language
,	O
choose	O
whether	O
to	O
translate	O
ALT	O
text	O
for	O
images	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
user	O
can	O
also	O
choose	O
how	O
non-standard	O
elements	O
in	O
third-party	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memories	I-General_Concept
should	O
be	O
handled	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
's	O
segmentation	O
rules	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
regular	B-Language
expressions	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
edit	O
pane	O
also	O
has	O
inline	O
spell-checking	O
using	O
Hunspell	B-Application
dictionaries	O
,	O
and	O
interactive	O
spell-checking	O
is	O
done	O
using	O
the	O
mouse	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
shows	O
the	O
degree	O
of	O
similarity	O
in	O
fuzzy	O
matches	O
using	O
colours	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
can	O
also	O
display	O
the	O
date	O
,	O
time	O
and	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
the	O
user	O
who	O
translated	O
any	O
given	O
segment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
search	O
window	O
,	O
the	O
user	O
can	O
choose	O
to	O
search	O
the	O
current	O
files	O
 '	O
source	O
text	O
,	O
target	O
text	O
,	O
other	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memories	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
reference	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Searches	O
can	O
be	O
case	O
sensitive	O
,	O
and	O
regular	B-Language
expressions	I-Language
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
translation	O
,	O
OmegaT	B-Language
can	O
perform	O
tag	O
validation	O
to	O
ensure	O
that	O
there	O
are	O
no	O
accidental	O
tag	O
errors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
can	O
calculate	O
statistics	O
for	O
the	O
project	O
files	O
and	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memories	I-General_Concept
before	O
the	O
project	O
starts	O
,	O
or	O
during	O
the	O
translation	O
to	O
show	O
the	O
progress	O
of	O
the	O
translation	O
job	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
can	O
get	O
machine	O
translations	O
from	O
Apertium	B-Language
,	O
Belazar	O
,	O
Deepl	O
and	O
Google	B-Application
Translate	I-Application
,	O
and	O
display	O
it	O
in	O
a	O
separate	O
window	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
various	O
windows	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
's	O
user	O
interface	O
can	O
be	O
moved	O
around	O
,	O
maximised	O
,	O
tiled	O
,	O
tabbed	O
and	O
minimised	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
file	O
types	O
can	O
be	O
translated	O
directly	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
determines	O
the	O
file	O
type	O
by	O
the	O
file	O
extension	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
handles	O
formatted	O
documents	O
by	O
converting	O
formatting	O
to	O
tags	O
,	O
similar	O
to	O
other	O
commercial	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
File	O
format	O
File	O
extension	O
pattern	O
Format	O
type	O
Plain	O
text	O
(	O
any	O
text	O
format	O
which	O
Java	B-Language
can	O
handle	O
)	O
encoded	O
in	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
encodings	O
including	O
Unicode	O
.txt	O
,	O
.txt1	O
,	O
.txt2	O
,	O
.utf8	O
Documentation	O
HTML/XHTML	O
.html	B-Language
,	O
.htm	B-Language
,	O
.xhtml	B-Language
,	O
.xht	B-Language
Documentation	O
OpenDocument	B-Application
(	O
ODF	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Open	B-Application
Document	I-Application
Format	I-Application
for	I-Application
Office	I-Application
Applications	I-Application
–	O
ISO/IEC	B-Application
26300:2006	I-Application
format	O
used	O
in	O
LibreOffice	B-Application
,	O
StarOffice	B-Application
,	O
Apache	B-Application
OpenOffice	I-Application
.sx	O
?,	O
.st	O
?,	O
.od	O
?,	O
.ot	O
?	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
two	O
processes	O
that	O
allow	O
OmegaT	B-Language
to	O
handle	O
unsupported	O
formats	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
program	O
Rainbow	O
from	O
the	O
Okapi	B-Language
Framework	I-Language
can	O
convert	O
certain	O
file	O
formats	O
to	O
an	O
XLIFF	O
format	O
that	O
OmegaT	B-Language
does	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rainbow	O
can	O
also	O
create	O
complete	O
OmegaT	B-Language
project	O
folders	O
from	O
such	O
documents	O
,	O
for	O
easier	O
handling	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
number	O
of	O
file	O
formats	O
can	O
be	O
converted	O
to	O
Gettext	B-Application
Portable	B-Application
Object	I-Application
(	O
PO	O
)	O
files	O
,	O
which	O
can	O
be	O
translated	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Debian	O
program	O
po4a	O
can	O
convert	O
formats	O
such	O
as	O
LaTeX	B-Application
,	O
TeX	B-Application
and	O
POD	B-Language
to	O
Gettext	B-Application
PO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Translate	B-Language
Toolkit	I-Language
can	O
convert	O
Mozilla	O
.properties	O
and	O
dtd	B-Language
files	O
,	O
CSV	O
files	O
,	O
certain	O
Qt	O
.ts	O
files	O
,	O
and	O
certain	O
XLIFF	O
files	O
to	O
Gettext	B-Application
PO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
Word	O
,	O
Excel	O
and	O
PowerPoint	O
documents	O
from	O
version	O
97	O
to	O
2003	O
can	O
be	O
converted	O
to	O
Office	B-Operating_System
Open	I-Operating_System
XML	I-Operating_System
(	O
Microsoft	O
Office	O
2007/2010	O
)	O
or	O
ODF	B-Application
(	O
OpenOffice.org	O
)	O
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Trados®	O
.ttx	O
files	O
can	O
be	O
treated	O
using	O
the	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
's	O
internal	O
translation	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
format	O
is	O
not	O
visible	O
to	O
the	O
user	O
,	O
but	O
every	O
time	O
it	O
autosaves	O
the	O
translation	O
project	O
,	O
all	O
new	O
or	O
updated	O
translation	O
units	O
are	O
automatically	O
exported	O
and	O
added	O
to	O
three	O
external	O
TMX	O
memories	O
:	O
a	O
native	O
OmegaT	B-Language
TMX	O
,	O
a	O
level	O
1	O
TMX	O
and	O
a	O
level	O
2	O
TMX	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
native	O
TMX	O
file	O
is	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
level	O
1	O
TMX	O
file	O
preserves	O
textual	O
information	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
with	O
TMX	O
level	O
1	O
and	O
2	O
supporting	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
level	O
2	O
file	O
preserves	O
textual	O
information	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
inline	O
tag	O
information	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
with	O
TMX	O
level	O
2	O
supporting	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Exported	O
level	O
2	O
files	O
include	O
OmegaT	B-Language
's	O
internal	O
tags	O
encapsulated	O
in	O
TMX	O
tags	O
which	O
allows	O
such	O
TMX	O
files	O
to	O
generate	O
matches	O
in	O
TMX	O
level	O
2	O
supporting	O
CAT	B-Application
tools	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tests	O
have	O
been	O
positive	O
in	O
Trados	B-Application
and	O
SDLX	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
can	O
import	O
TMX	O
files	O
up	O
to	O
version	O
1.4b	O
level	O
1	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
level	O
2	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Level	O
2	O
files	O
imported	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
will	O
generate	O
matches	O
of	O
the	O
same	O
level	O
since	O
OmegaT	B-Language
converts	O
the	O
TMX	O
level	O
2	O
tags	O
of	O
the	O
foreign	O
TMX	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
glossaries	O
,	O
OmegaT	B-Language
mainly	O
uses	O
tab-delimited	O
plain	O
text	O
files	O
in	O
UTF-8	O
encoding	O
with	O
the	O
.txt	O
extension	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
structure	O
of	O
a	O
glossary	O
file	O
is	O
extremely	O
simple	O
:	O
the	O
first	O
column	O
contains	O
the	O
source	O
language	O
word	O
,	O
the	O
second	O
column	O
contains	O
the	O
corresponding	O
target	B-Application
language	I-Application
words	O
,	O
the	O
third	O
column	O
(	O
optional	O
)	O
can	O
contain	O
anything	O
including	O
comments	O
on	O
context	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
is	O
open-source	O
software	O
and	O
benefits	O
from	O
the	O
help	O
of	O
volunteers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
If	O
you	O
feel	O
so	O
inclined	O
,	O
you	O
may	O
also	O
modify	O
OmegaT	B-Language
to	O
suit	O
your	O
own	O
requirements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT	B-Language
's	O
user	O
interface	O
and	O
documentation	O
have	O
been	O
translated	O
into	O
about	O
30	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Volunteer	O
translators	B-Application
can	O
translate	O
either	O
the	O
user	O
interface	O
,	O
the	O
"	O
Instant	O
Start	O
"	O
short	O
tutorial	O
,	O
or	O
the	O
entire	O
user	O
manual	O
(	O
or	O
all	O
three	O
components	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
the	O
language	O
files	O
and	O
all	O
translations	O
of	O
the	O
user	O
manual	O
are	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
standard	O
distribution	O
of	O
OmegaT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
characteristic	O
of	O
the	O
OmegaT	B-Language
user	O
community	O
is	O
that	O
deficiencies	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
often	O
prompt	O
users	O
to	O
create	O
macros	O
,	O
scripts	O
and	O
programs	O
that	O
perform	O
those	O
functions	O
,	O
although	O
sometimes	O
those	O
features	O
later	O
become	O
available	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
OmegaT	B-Language
offered	O
only	O
paragraph	O
segmentation	O
,	O
a	O
user	O
created	O
OpenOffice.org	O
macros	O
for	O
segmenting	O
by	O
sentence	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
automatic	O
leveraging	O
of	O
TMs	O
in	O
OmegaT	B-Language
still	O
required	O
TMs	O
to	O
be	O
merged	O
,	O
a	O
user	O
created	O
a	O
TMX	O
merging	O
script	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
OmegaT	B-Language
offered	O
no	O
spell-checking	O
support	O
,	O
several	O
users	O
created	O
scripts	O
or	O
found	O
solutions	O
to	O
provide	O
spell-checking	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
an	O
OmegaT	B-Language
based	O
translation	O
process	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Directorate-General	O
for	O
Translation	O
of	O
the	O
European	O
Commission	O
(	O
DGT	O
)	O
uses	O
OmegaT	B-Language
as	O
an	O
alternative	O
CAT	B-Application
tool	I-Application
alongside	O
a	O
mainstream	O
commercial	O
tool	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DGT	O
maintains	O
a	O
fork	O
of	O
OmegaT	B-Language
(	O
DGT-OmegaT	O
)	O
with	O
adaptations/improvements/new	O
features	O
that	O
meet	O
DGT-specific	O
requirements	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
helper-applications	O
to	O
integrate	O
OmegaT	B-Language
in	O
its	O
workflow	O
:	O
a	O
Wizard	O
to	O
automate	O
the	O
creation	O
,	O
updating	O
,	O
revision	O
and	O
delivery	O
of	O
projects	O
,	O
Tagwipe	O
to	O
clean	O
useless	O
tags	O
in	O
docx	B-Operating_System
documents	O
and	O
TeamBase	O
to	O
allow	O
the	O
sharing	O
of	O
memories	O
in	O
real-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
OmegaT	B-Language
code	O
to	O
handle	O
the	O
TM	O
matching	O
process	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Autshumato	O
consists	O
of	O
a	O
CAT	B-Application
tool	I-Application
,	O
an	O
aligner	O
,	O
a	O
PDF	O
extractor	O
,	O
a	O
TMX	O
editor	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
public	O
TM	O
based	O
on	O
crawled	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
finished	O
version	O
will	O
include	O
a	O
terminology	O
manager	O
and	O
a	O
machine	O
translator	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CAT	B-Application
tool	I-Application
element	O
is	O
built	O
upon	O
OmegaT	B-Language
,	O
and	O
requires	O
OpenOffice.org	O
to	O
run	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT+	O
is	O
a	O
CAT	B-Application
tool	I-Application
that	O
was	O
forked	O
from	O
OmegaT	B-Language
version	O
1.4.5	O
in	O
2005	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OmegaT+	O
works	O
in	O
a	O
way	O
similar	O
to	O
OmegaT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
developed	O
its	O
own	O
features	O
but	O
projects	O
are	O
not	O
compatible	O
with	O
OmegaT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Boltran	O
is	O
a	O
web-based	O
tool	O
that	O
mimicks	O
the	O
workflow	O
of	O
an	O
OmegaT	B-Language
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
built	O
upon	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
of	O
OmegaT	B-Language
and	O
can	O
export	O
OmegaT	B-Language
projects	O
.	O
</s>
