Lilt API API Reference
The Lilt API enables programmatic access to the full-range of Lilt backend services including:
- Training of and translating with interactive, adaptive machine translation
- Large-scale translation memory
- The Lexicon (a large-scale termbase)
- Programmatic control of the Lilt CAT environment
- Translation memory synchronization
Requests and responses are in JSON format. The API only responds to HTTPS / SSL requests.
Authentication
Requests are authenticated via API key, which requires the Business plan.
Requests are authenticated using
HTTP Basic Auth. Add your API key as both the username and password.
For development, you may also pass the API key via the key query parameter. This is less secure than HTTP Basic Auth, and is not recommended for production use.
API Endpoint
https://lilt.com/2Contact: support@lilt.com
Request Content-Types: application/json
Response Content-Types: application/json
Schemes: https
Version: v2.0
Authentication
BasicAuth
ApiKeyAuth
Root
Retrieve the API root
This resource does not have any attributes. It lists the name of the API.
This endpoint can be used to verify API keys and to check the availability of the API.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"api_name": "Lilt REST API v2",
"api_root": "/2"
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Documents
Create a Document
Create a new Document. A Document is a collection of one or more Segments. Documents are nested inside of Projects, and appear in the Project details view in the web app. Document-level relationships between Segments are considered by the machine translation system during adaptation. If there is no inherent document structure in your data, you still might consider grouping related Segments into Documents to improve translation quality.
The Document resource to create.
- name: string
-
The document name.
- project_id: integer
-
A unique Project identifier.
Request Example
{
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"project_id": 23618
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Retrieve a Document
List a Document.
A unique Document identifier.
Flag indicating whether full segment information should be returned.
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Update a Document
Update a Document.
The Document resource to update.
- id: integer
-
A unique Document identifier.
- name: string
-
The Document name.
Request Example
{
"id": 46530,
"name": "Introduction to our App"
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Delete a Document
Delete a Document.
A unique Document identifier.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"deleted": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Assign a Document
Assign and unassign a Document for translation and/or review.
Attributes of the Document resource to assign.
- id: integer
-
A unique Document identifier.
- email: string
-
An email address.
- is_translator: boolean
-
If true, assign for translating. If false, then unassign.
- is_reviewer: boolean
-
If true, assign for reviewing. If false, then unassign.
Request Example
{
"id": 46530,
"email": "user@email.com",
"is_translator": true,
"is_reviewer": false
}
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Pretranslate a Document
Initiate pretranslation of a list of Documents. This request will mark document(s) as being pretranslated. Pretranslation in this context is:
- Applying and confirming exact TM matches based on the Memory of the Project;
- Translating all other segments via MT without confirming them.
Translation of the documents is performed in the background, and status can be pulled via GET /documents. The response will contain an indicator {"is_pretranslating": true} while pretranslation is running. Once pretranslation is finished, the document can be downloaded via GET /documents/files.
A list of unique Document identifiers.
- id: integer[]
-
A list of unique Document identifiers.
Request Example
{
"id": [
123,
234
]
}
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (202 Accepted)
{
"id": [
123,
234
],
"is_pretranslating": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Download a File
Export a Document that has been translated in the Lilt web application. Any Document can be downloaded in XLIFF 1.2 format, or can be retrieved in its original uploaded format by setting is_xliff=false. Example CURL command:
curl -X GET https://lilt.com/2/documents/files?key=API_KEY&id=274 -o from_lilt.xliff
An unique Document identifier.
Download the document in XLIFF 1.2 format.
A file.
Unexpected error
Response Content-Types: application/octet-stream
Response Example (200 OK)
"file"
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Upload a File
Create a Document from a file in any of the formats
documented in our knowledge base. Request parameters should be passed as JSON object with the header field LILT-API. Example CURL command:
curl -X POST https://lilt.com/2/documents/files?key=API_KEY \
--header "LILT-API: {\"name\": \"introduction.xliff\",\"project_id\": 9}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
--data-binary @Introduction.xliff
The file contents to be uploaded. The entire POST body will be treated as the file.
A file name.
A unique Project identifier.
Request Content-Types: application/xml
Request Example
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\r\n<xliff xmlns=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2\"> \r\n...\r\n</xliff>"
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Languages
Retrieve supported languages
Get a list of supported languages.
Locales (e.g., en-US) are not explicitly supported. To create locale-specific systems,
simply create a new Memory and upload locale-specific translation memory data to it. The system will adapt to the locale.
An object listing supported languages.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"source_to_target": {
"en": {
"da": true,
"de": true,
"fr": true,
"...": "..."
},
"...": "..."
},
"code_to_name": {
"aa": "Afar",
"ab": "Abkhazian",
"af": "Afrikaans",
"...": "..."
}
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Lexicon
Update a Lexicon
Update the Lexicon with a new term. The maximum source length is 250 characters.
The lexicon entry.
- memory_id: integer
-
A unique Memory identifier.
- source: string
-
The source side of the lexicon entry.
- target: string
-
The target side of the lexicon entry.
Request Example
{
"memory_id": 10641,
"source": "washing machine",
"target": "Waschmaschine"
}
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"memory_id": 46530,
"success": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Query a Lexicon
Query the Lexicon. The Lexicon is an editable termbase / concordance that is integrated with the Memory.
A unique Memory identifier.
An ISO639-1 language code.
An ISO639-1 language code.
The query term.
The maximum number of results to return.
A list of LexiconEntry objects.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
[
{
"translations": [],
"examples": [
[
{
"source": "Waschmaschine",
"sourceDelimiters": [
"",
""
],
"target": [
"washing",
"machine"
],
"targetDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
""
],
"sourceSpan": {
"start": 0,
"length": 1
},
"targetSpan": {
"start": 1,
"length": 1
},
"similarity": 0,
"memoryId": 10641
}
]
]
}
]
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Memories
Create a Memory
Create a new Memory. A Memory is a container that collects source/target sentences for a specific language pair (e.g., English>French). The data in the Memory is used to train the MT system, populate the TM, and update the lexicon. Memories are private to your account - the data is not shared across users - unless you explicitly share a Memory with your team (via web app only).
Refer to our KB for a more detailed description.
The Memory resource to create.
- name: string
-
A name for the Memory.
- srclang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- trglang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
Request Example
{
"name": "automotive",
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr"
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "Acme Corp Support Content",
"version": 78,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"num_segments": 1028,
"resources": [
"string"
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Retrieve a Memory
Retrieve a Memory. If you cannot access the Memory (401 error) please check permissions (e.g. in case you created the Memory via the web app with a different account you may have to explicitly share that Memory).
An optional Memory identifier.
Response Example (200 OK)
[
{
"id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "Acme Corp Support Content",
"version": 78,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"num_segments": 1028,
"resources": [
"string"
]
}
]
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Update a Memory
Update a Memory.
The Memory resource to update.
- id: integer
-
A unique Memory identifier.
- name: string
-
The Memory name.
Request Example
{
"id": 7246,
"name": "Automotive Memory"
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "Acme Corp Support Content",
"version": 78,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"num_segments": 1028,
"resources": [
"string"
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Delete a Memory
Delete a Memory.
A unique Memory identifier.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"deleted": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Query a Memory
Perform a translation memory query.
A unique Memory identifier.
A source query.
Maximum number of results to return.
A list of TranslationMemoryEntry objects.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
[
{
"source": "The red bus.",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"score": 100,
"metadata": "object"
}
]
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Get-sync for a Memory
Get all or part of a memory in TMX 1.4b format. If the from_time and/or to_time are omitted, then all segments are returned. The parameter when specifies on which date field from_time and to_time are matched. Possible values are created (when the segment was originally created in the memory), updated (when the segment was lastly updated), and deleted (when the segment was deleted).
Example CURL command:
curl -X GET https://lilt.com/2/memories/sync?key=API_KEY&id=42 -o from_lilt.tmx
A unique Memory identifier.
Unix time stamp (epoch, in seconds) of the start of the Memory section.
Unix time stamp (epoch, in seconds) of the end of the Memory section.
The date field on which retrieved segments match from/to time stamps: created, updated, deleted. If this parameter is omitted, then the whole Memory is returned.
A TMX 1.4b file.
Unexpected error
Response Content-Types: application/x-tmx
Response Example (200 OK)
"file"
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Insert-sync for a Memory
Inserts a TM in TMX 1.4b format into the Memory. Request parameters should be passed as JSON object with the header field LILT-API.
Example CURL command:
curl -X POST https://lilt.com/2/memories/sync?key=API_KEY \
--header "LILT-API: {\"name\": \"my_memory.tmx\",\"id\": 42}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
--data-binary @my_memory.tmx
The file contents to be uploaded. The entire POST body will be treated as the file.
A unique Memory identifier.
Name of the TMX file.
Request Content-Types: application/xml
Request Example
"string"
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 123,
"num_updates": 107
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Update-sync for a Memory
Updates the Memory with given TMX file. Request parameters should be passed as JSON object with the header field LILT-API. The number of segments returned by the from_time, to_time, when parameters and the number of segments in the TMX file need to be identical.
Example CURL command:
curl -X PUT https://lilt.com/2/memories/sync?key=API_KEY \
--header "LILT-API: {\"name\": \"my_memory.tmx\", \"id\": 42, \"from_time\": 1491048000, \"to_time\": 1491049800, "when": "Updated"}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
--data-binary @my_memory.tmx
The file contents to be uploaded. The entire PUT body will be treated as the file.
A unique Memory identifier.
Unix time stamp (epoch, in seconds) of the start of the Memory section.
Unix time stamp (epoch, in seconds) of the end of the Memory section.
The date field on which retrieved segments match from/to time stamps: created, updated, deleted.
Request Example
"string"
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 123,
"num_updates": "num_updates"
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Delete-sync for a Memory
Deletes segments in the Memory matching the from_time, to_time and when parameters.
Example CURL command:
curl -X DELETE https://lilt.com/2/memories/sync?key=API_KEY&id=42&from_time=1491048000&to_time=1491049800&when=created
A unique Memory identifier.
Unix time stamp (epoch, in seconds) of the start of the Memory section.
Unix time stamp (epoch, in seconds) of the end of the Memory section.
The date field on which retrieved segments match from/to time stamps: created, updated, deleted.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 123,
"num_updates": 107
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Projects
Create a Project
Create a Project. A Project is a collection of Documents.
A Project is associated with exactly one Memory.
Projects appear in the dashboard of the web app.
The Project resource to create.
- name: string
-
A name for the Project.
- memory_id: integer
-
The Memory to associate with this new Project.
- due_date: integer
-
The due date. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
Request Example
{
"name": "My new project",
"memory_id": 1234,
"due_date": 1489147692
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 448,
"memory_id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "My New Project",
"due_date": 1489147692,
"archived": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"documents": [
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Retrieve a Project
Retrieve a project.
A unique Project identifier.
An ISO639-1 language code.
An ISO639-1 language code.
Response Example (200 OK)
[
{
"id": 448,
"memory_id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "My New Project",
"due_date": 1489147692,
"archived": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"documents": [
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
]
}
]
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Update a Project
Update a Project.
The Project resource to update.
- id: integer
-
A unique Project identifier.
- name: string
-
The Project name.
- due_date: integer
-
The due date. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- archived: boolean
-
True if the project is archived. Otherwise, false.
Request Example
{
"id": 1234,
"name": "Walker Percy Essays",
"due_date": 1489147692,
"archived": false
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 448,
"memory_id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "My New Project",
"due_date": 1489147692,
"archived": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"documents": [
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Delete a Project
Delete a Project.
A unique Project identifier.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"deleted": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Retrieve Project report
Get information about a project that can be used for quoting. This includes:
- A translation memory leverage report
- Word count
- Segment count
A unique Project identifier.
An object that represents a Project quote.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 21902,
"num_source_words": 8000,
"num_words_new": 6039,
"num_segments_new": 151,
"num_words_repetition": 12,
"num_segments_repetition": 2980000,
"resources": [
{
"minimum_score": 94,
"maximum_score": 85,
"num_source_words": 151,
"num_segments": 12
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Retrieve Project status
Retrieve the status of a Project.
A unique Project identifier.
An object that represents a Project status report.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 21902,
"num_source_words": 6039,
"num_words_confirmed": 151,
"num_words_reviewed": 12,
"time_elapsed": 2980000,
"time_elapsed_translation": 33487,
"time_elapsed_research": 912348,
"time_elapsed_review": 66521,
"resources": [
{
"email": "joe.strummer@lilt.com",
"name": "Joe Strummer",
"num_words_confirmed": 151,
"num_words_new": 12,
"num_words_fuzzy": 24,
"num_words_exact": 56,
"num_words_reviewed": 182,
"time_elapsed": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_translation": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_research": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_review": 1172000,
"num_segments_confirmed": 25,
"num_segments_reviewed": 30
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
QA
Perform QA check
Perform QA checks on a target string. Optionally, you can specify a source string for additional bilingual checks, e.g. number consistency.
A target string to be checked.
An ISO639-1 language code.
An optional source string.
An ISO639-1 language code.
A QARuleMatches object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"matches": [
{
"context": {
"length": 7,
"offset": 19,
"text": "This segment has a speling mistake"
},
"length": 7,
"message": "Possible spelling mistake found",
"offset": 19,
"replacements": [
{
"value": "spelling"
},
{
"value": "spewing"
},
{
"value": "spieling"
}
],
"rule": {
"category": {
"id": "TYPOS",
"name": "Possible Typo"
},
"description": "Possible spelling mistake",
"id": "MORFOLOGIK_RULE_EN_US",
"issueType": "misspelling",
"subId": "",
"urls": []
},
"shortMessage": "Spelling mistake"
}
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Segments
Create a Segment
Create a Segment and add it to a Memory. A Segment is a source/target pair that is used to train the machine translation system and populate the translation memory.
The maximum source length is 5,000 characters.
The Segment resource to create.
To add a Segment to a Memory, include the memory_id and target parameters.
To add a Segment to a Document, include the document_id and the source parameters. The target parameter is optional.
- memory_id: integer
-
A unique Memory identifier.
- document_id: integer
-
A unique Document identifier.
- source: string
-
The source string.
- target: string
-
The target string.
Request Example
{
"memory_id": 10641,
"document_id": 1876,
"source": "Code zur Fehleranalyse einschalten",
"target": "Enable debugging code"
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Retrieve a Segment
Retrieve a Segment.
A unique Segment identifier.
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Update a Segment
Update a Segment. The Memory will be updated with the new target string.
The Segment resource to update.
- id: integer
-
A unique Segment identifier.
- target: string
-
The target string.
Request Example
{
"id": 84480010,
"target": "Enable debug code"
}
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Delete a Segment
Delete a Segment.
A unique Segment identifier.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"id": 46530,
"deleted": true
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Tag a Segment
Project tags for a segment. The source_tagged string contains one or more SGML tags. The target string is untagged. This endpoint will automatically place the source tags in the target.
Usage charges apply to this endpoint for production API keys.
The tagged source string.
The target string.
A unique Memory identifier.
A TaggedSegment object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"source_tagged": "The <b>red bus.</b>",
"target_tagged": "Le <b>bus rouge.</b>"
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Translate
Translate a segment
Translate a source string.
Setting the rich parameter to true will change the response format to include additional information about each translation including a model score, word alignments, and formatting information. The rich format can be seen in the example response on this page.
By default, this endpoint also returns translation memory (TM) fuzzy matches, along with associated scores. Fuzzy matches always appear ahead of machine translation output in the response.
The maximum source length is 5,000 characters.
Usage charges apply to this endpoint for production API keys.
A unique Memory identifier.
The source text to be translated.
A source hash code.
A target prefix.
Return top n translations.
Returns rich translation information (e.g., with word alignments).
Include translation memory fuzzy matches.
A TranslationList object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"untokenizedSource": "Authentication not required.",
"tokenizedSource": "Authentication not required .",
"sourceDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
" ",
"",
""
],
"translation": [
[
{
"score": 3.4936864e-8,
"align": "0-0 1-1 2-2 3-3",
"targetDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
" ",
"",
""
],
"targetWords": [
"Authentifizierung",
"nicht",
"erforderlich",
"."
],
"target": "Authentifizierung nicht erforderlich .",
"targetWithTags": "Authentifizierung nicht erforderlich.",
"isTMMatch": false,
"provenance": "0 0 0 0"
}
]
]
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Register a segment
Register a source string for interactive translation. The source_hash value that is returned by this request is required by the prefix parameter for the translation endpoint. The maximum source length is 5,000 characters. Usage charges apply to this endpoint for production API keys.
A source string to be registered.
An ISO639-1 language code.
An ISO639-1 language code.
A status object.
Unexpected error
Response Example (200 OK)
{
"source_hash": 11476,
"num_words": 88
}
Response Example (default )
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Schema Definitions
Error: object
Response in the event of an unexpected error.
- message: object
-
A human-readable message describing the error.
Example
{
"message": "Internal server error."
}
Project: object
A Project is a collection of zero or more Documents. It is specific to a language pair, and is associated with exactly one Memory for that language pair. The Memory association cannot be changed after the Project is created.
- id: integer
-
A unique number identifying the Project.
- memory_id: integer
-
A unique number identifying the associated Memory.
- srclang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- trglang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- name: string
-
A name for the project.
- due_date: integer
-
The due date. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- archived: boolean
-
The archived state of the Project.
- created_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- updated_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- documents: Document
-
A list of Documents.
Example
{
"id": 448,
"memory_id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "My New Project",
"due_date": 1489147692,
"archived": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"documents": [
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
]
}
ProjectQuote: object
Quoting information for a Project.
- id: integer
-
A unique Project identifier.
- num_source_words: integer
-
The number of source words in the Project.
- num_words_new: integer
-
The number of new source words in the Project.
- num_segments_new: integer
-
The number of new segments in the Project.
- num_words_repetition: integer
-
The number of repetition source words in the Project.
- num_segments_repetition: integer
-
The number of repetition segments in the Project.
- resources: MatchBand
-
A list of MatchBand objects that represent translation memory leverage statistics.
Example
{
"id": 21902,
"num_source_words": 8000,
"num_words_new": 6039,
"num_segments_new": 151,
"num_words_repetition": 12,
"num_segments_repetition": 2980000,
"resources": [
{
"minimum_score": 94,
"maximum_score": 85,
"num_source_words": 151,
"num_segments": 12
}
]
}
MatchBand: object
A translation memory match band.
- minimum_score: integer
-
The minimum fuzzy match score.
- maximum_score: integer
-
The maximum fuzzy match score.
- num_source_words: integer
-
The number of source words in the band.
- num_segments: integer
-
The number of source segments in the band.
Example
{
"minimum_score": 94,
"maximum_score": 85,
"num_source_words": 151,
"num_segments": 12
}
ProjectStatus: object
The status of a Project.
- id: integer
-
A unique Project identifier.
- num_source_words: integer
-
The number of source words in the Project.
- num_words_confirmed: integer
-
The number of confirmed source words.
- num_words_reviewed: integer
-
The number of reviewed source words.
- time_elapsed: integer
-
The total time spent on the project by all resources. Measured in milliseconds.
- time_elapsed_translation: integer
-
The total time spent on translation by all resources. Measured in milliseconds.
- time_elapsed_research: integer
-
The total time spent on research by all resources. Measured in milliseconds.
- time_elapsed_review: integer
-
The total time spent on reviewing by all resources. Measured in milliseconds.
- resources: ResourceStatus
-
A list of ResourceStatus objects that represent per-resource statistics.
Example
{
"id": 21902,
"num_source_words": 6039,
"num_words_confirmed": 151,
"num_words_reviewed": 12,
"time_elapsed": 2980000,
"time_elapsed_translation": 33487,
"time_elapsed_research": 912348,
"time_elapsed_review": 66521,
"resources": [
{
"email": "joe.strummer@lilt.com",
"name": "Joe Strummer",
"num_words_confirmed": 151,
"num_words_new": 12,
"num_words_fuzzy": 24,
"num_words_exact": 56,
"num_words_reviewed": 182,
"time_elapsed": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_translation": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_research": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_review": 1172000,
"num_segments_confirmed": 25,
"num_segments_reviewed": 30
}
]
}
ResourceStatus: object
The status of a resource working on a Project.
- email: string
-
An email address.
- name: string
-
The full name.
- num_words_confirmed: integer
-
The number of source words confirmed.
- num_words_new: integer
-
The number of new source words confirmed.
- num_words_fuzzy: integer
-
The number of fuzzy match source words confirmed.
- num_words_exact: integer
-
The number of exact match source words confirmed.
- num_words_reviewed: integer
-
The number of source words reviewed.
- time_elapsed: integer
-
The total time spent on translation and research. Measured in milliseconds.
- time_elapsed_translation: integer
-
The total time spent translating. Measured in milliseconds.
- time_elapsed_research: integer
-
The total time spent on research. Measured in milliseconds.
- time_elapsed_review: integer
-
The total time spent reviewing. Measured in milliseconds.
- num_segments_confirmed: integer
-
The number of source segments confirmed.
- num_segments_reviewed: integer
-
The number of source segments reviewed.
Example
{
"email": "joe.strummer@lilt.com",
"name": "Joe Strummer",
"num_words_confirmed": 151,
"num_words_new": 12,
"num_words_fuzzy": 24,
"num_words_exact": 56,
"num_words_reviewed": 182,
"time_elapsed": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_translation": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_research": 1172000,
"time_elapsed_review": 1172000,
"num_segments_confirmed": 25,
"num_segments_reviewed": 30
}
Document: object
A Document is a collection of zero or more Segments.
- id: integer
-
A unique number identifying the Document.
- project_id: integer
-
A unique number identifying the Project.
- srclang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- trglang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- name: string
-
The document name.
- import_in_progress: boolean
-
True if the document is currently being imported
- import_succeeded: boolean
-
True if the import process succeeded.
- import_error_message: string
-
Error message if
import_succeeded=false - is_pretranslating: boolean
-
True if the document is currently being pretranslated.
- created_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- updated_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- segments: Segment
-
A list of Segments.
Example
{
"id": 46530,
"project_id": 287,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "de",
"name": "Introduction.xliff",
"import_in_progress": false,
"import_succeeded": false,
"import_error_message": "Could not parse XML.",
"is_pretranslating": false,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"segments": [
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
]
}
LexiconEntry: object
An Lexicon entry for a source term or phrase.
- translations: object[]
-
A list of translations for the query term.
- examples: object[]
-
A list of concordance examples for the query term.
Example
{
"translations": [],
"examples": [
[
{
"source": "Waschmaschine",
"sourceDelimiters": [
"",
""
],
"target": [
"washing",
"machine"
],
"targetDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
""
],
"sourceSpan": {
"start": 0,
"length": 1
},
"targetSpan": {
"start": 1,
"length": 1
},
"similarity": 0,
"memoryId": 10641
}
]
]
}
Memory: object
A Memory is a collection of parallel (source/target) segments from which a MT/TM model is trained. When a translator confirms a segment in the Interface, a parallel segment is added to the Memory. Parallel segments from existing translation memories and bitexts can also be added to the Memory via the API.
- id: integer
-
A unique number identifying the Memory.
- srclang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- trglang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language identifier.
- name: string
-
A name for the Memory.
- version: integer
-
The current version of the Memory, which is the number of updates since the memory was created.
- created_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- updated_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- num_segments: integer
-
The number of confirmed Segments incorporated into this Memory.
- resources: string[]
-
The resource files (translation memories and termbases) associated with this Memory.
Example
{
"id": 1234,
"srclang": "en",
"trglang": "fr",
"name": "Acme Corp Support Content",
"version": 78,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"num_segments": 1028,
"resources": [
"string"
]
}
Translation: object
A machine translation (MT) or a translation memory (TM) match of a source segment.
- target: string
-
The target string.
- targetWithTags: string
-
The target string with source tags projected into the target.
- align: string
-
"MT only: A whitespace delimited list of source-target alignment indices."
- provenance: string
-
Positive values indicate that the word is from the Memory, with contiguous identical entries (e.g., 2 2) indicating phrase matches. Negative contiguous values indicate entries from the Lexicon. 0 indicates a word from the background data.
- score: number
-
The score of the translation.
- isTMMatch: boolean
-
TM only: If true, indicates an exact translation memory match.
- targetDelimiters: string[]
-
A format string that indicates, for each word, if the word should be preceded by a space.
- targetWords: string[]
-
A list of target words corresponding with the same dimension as
targetDelimiters. The target string can be constructed by prefixing each word with its corresponding value intargetDelimiters, and then concatenating the words.
Example
[
{
"score": 3.4936864e-8,
"align": "0-0 1-1 2-2 3-3",
"targetDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
" ",
"",
""
],
"targetWords": [
"Authentifizierung",
"nicht",
"erforderlich",
"."
],
"target": "Authentifizierung nicht erforderlich .",
"targetWithTags": "Authentifizierung nicht erforderlich.",
"isTMMatch": false,
"provenance": "0 0 0 0"
}
]
TranslationList: object
An ranked list of translations and associated metadata.
- untokenizedSource: string
-
The untokenized source segment. Punctuation has not been separated from words.
- tokenizedSource: string
-
The tokenized source segment. Punctuation has been separated from words.
- sourceDelimiters: string[]
-
A format string that indicates, for each word, if the word should be preceded by a space.
- translation: Translation
-
A list of Translation objects.
Example
{
"untokenizedSource": "Authentication not required.",
"tokenizedSource": "Authentication not required .",
"sourceDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
" ",
"",
""
],
"translation": [
[
{
"score": 3.4936864e-8,
"align": "0-0 1-1 2-2 3-3",
"targetDelimiters": [
"",
" ",
" ",
"",
""
],
"targetWords": [
"Authentifizierung",
"nicht",
"erforderlich",
"."
],
"target": "Authentifizierung nicht erforderlich .",
"targetWithTags": "Authentifizierung nicht erforderlich.",
"isTMMatch": false,
"provenance": "0 0 0 0"
}
]
]
}
Segment: object
A Segment is a source string and, optionally, its translation. A Segment can be associated with both a Memory and a Document. The Segment object contains additional metadata about the source and target strings.
- id: integer
-
A unique number identifying the Segment.
- created_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- updated_at: integer
-
Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
- document_id: integer
-
A unique Document identifier.
- memory_id: integer
-
The Memory with which this Segment is associated.
- source: string
-
The source string.
- srclang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language code.
- target: string
-
The target string.
- trglang: string
-
An ISO639-1 language code.
- is_confirmed: boolean
-
The confirmation status.
- is_reviewed: boolean
-
The review status.
Example
{
"id": 84480010,
"created_at": 1489147692,
"updated_at": 1489147692,
"document_id": 1234,
"memory_id": 5678,
"source": "The red bus.",
"srclang": "en",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"trglang": "fr",
"is_confirmed": true,
"is_reviewed": true
}
TaggedSegment: object
A source string with tags automatically projected from source to target.
- source_tagged: string
-
The tagged source string.
- target_tagged: string
-
The tagged target string.
Example
{
"source_tagged": "The <b>red bus.</b>",
"target_tagged": "Le <b>bus rouge.</b>"
}
TranslationMemoryEntry: object
A translation memory entry.
- source: string
-
The source string.
- target: string
-
The target string. Tags will be automatically placed according to the query string.
- score: integer
-
The fuzzy match score.
- metadata: object
-
Attributes describing the translation memory entry.
Example
{
"source": "The red bus.",
"target": "Le bus rouge.",
"score": 100,
"metadata": "object"
}
QARuleMatches: object
QA rules describing the errors in the text.
- matches: object[]
Example
{
"matches": [
{
"context": {
"length": 7,
"offset": 19,
"text": "This segment has a speling mistake"
},
"length": 7,
"message": "Possible spelling mistake found",
"offset": 19,
"replacements": [
{
"value": "spelling"
},
{
"value": "spewing"
},
{
"value": "spieling"
}
],
"rule": {
"category": {
"id": "TYPOS",
"name": "Possible Typo"
},
"description": "Possible spelling mistake",
"id": "MORFOLOGIK_RULE_EN_US",
"issueType": "misspelling",
"subId": "",
"urls": []
},
"shortMessage": "Spelling mistake"
}
]
}