Case-insensitive matching
Amazon Translate matches the source terms in your custom terminology regardless of letter case. When a source term in your terminology file matches text in the input document – ignoring differences in capitalization – Amazon Translate applies the corresponding target term. You don't need to create separate entries for the uppercase, lowercase, or mixed-case forms of a source term.
Amazon Translate determines the capitalization of the applied target term from the matched source text, as follows:
If the matched source text is all lowercase, Amazon Translate applies the target term exactly as it appears in your terminology file.
If the matched source text is all uppercase, Amazon Translate applies the target term in all uppercase.
If the matched source text is in title case (each word begins with a capital letter), Amazon Translate capitalizes the first letter of each word of the target term.
For any other capitalization, such as mixed case (
coNsole) or a phrase in which only some words are capitalized, Amazon Translate applies the target term exactly as it appears in your terminology file.
For example, if your terminology file maps the source term console to a target
term, Amazon Translate matches console, Console, and CONSOLE in
the input text. Amazon Translate applies the target term as it appears in the file for
console, with an initial capital letter for Console, and in all
uppercase for CONSOLE.
Important
Amazon Translate matches custom terminology source terms regardless of letter case. If
your terminology file contains entries that differ only by letter case, such as
console and Console, Amazon Translate treats them as the same source term.
Remove duplicate entries that differ only by case.
Note
These capitalization rules apply to languages that distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters. For scripts without letter case, Amazon Translate applies the target term exactly as it appears in your terminology file. Uppercasing follows the casing rules of the target language.
Note
Case-insensitive matching applies to how Amazon Translate matches source terms. As with all custom terminology, Amazon Translate doesn't guarantee that it applies the target term for every translation; it uses the meaning of the source and target term in the translation context to decide whether to apply the target term. For more information, see Best practices.
A single custom terminology file can contain up to 30 target languages. For the file size and language quotas, see Service quotas.
