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API Add Memory Content

Quick Example

Adding a TMX file to an already existing memory

curl -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
     -H "MMT-ApiKey: <your_api_key>" \
     -F "tmx=@<absolute_path_to_your_tmx>" \
     https://api.modernmt.eu/memories/5/content \
     | python -mjson.tool

{
    "data": {
        "begin": 76692,
        "dataChannel": 0,
        "end": 76699,
        "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000004",
        "memory": 5,
        "progress": 0,
        "size": 8
    },
    "status": 200
}

Adding a single contribution to an already existing memory

curl -X POST \
     -H "MMT-ApiKey: <your_api_key" \
     -d "source=en" \
     -d "target=it" \
     -d "sentence=Hello Mike!" \
     -d "translation=Ciao Mike!" \
     https://api.modernmt.eu/memories/5/content \
     | python -mjson.tool

{
    "data": {
        "begin": 16,
        "dataChannel": 1,
        "end": 16,
        "id": "80000001-0000-0000-0000-000000000010",
        "memory": 0,
        "progress": 0,
        "size": 1
    },
    "status": 200
}

Description

This method appends parallel text to the content of a Memory.
It is possible to append either a single translation unit (source/translation pair), or an entire TMX file.

Adding more data to a Memory can improve the quality of the translation of ModernMT; appending post-edited segments for example is the best way to let MMT learn from corrections made by professional translators and be also able to adapt translation output to the translator’s taste.

To add a TMX to a Memory, the user must be linked to that Memory. To add a single contribution to a Memory, the user can be either linked or not linked to it (it must have a valid MMT-apiKey anyway).

Resource URL

https://api.modernmt.eu/memories/:id/content

Parameters

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source oprional	The source language of the content to add, in the form of a language tag. Mandatory if the content to add is a single contribution. Example: en
target optional	The target language of the content to add, in the form of a language tag. Mandatory if the content to add is a single contribution. Example: it
sentence optional	The source part of a translation unit. Mandatory if the content to add is a single contribution. Example: Hello Mike!
translation optional	The target part of a translation unit. Mandatory if the content to add is a single contribution. Example: Ciao Mike!
tmx optional	This parameter represents a TMX file to import into a memory. To import a tmx, the Content-Type: multipart/form-data` header must be specified.
compression optional	If you are sending a compressed TMX file, you also need to specify the compression type. NOTE: at the moment the only supported compression type is GZIP. Example: gzip

Note: The Memory identifier must be specified in the URL. It can be:

• the id of the MMT Memory that this ServiceApi Memory refers to (example: 5);
• the MMT Memory Key (example: mk_f4932hg205vh7h20h05g72);

Response Fields

The response object is an ImportJob, for more details please have a look at the API Get Import Job documentation.

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