In a real-world scenario, the goal of such an evaluation would be to help a localisation manager decide whether or not MT output can be used as TM input in the documentation localisation process. The process evaluated is specifically from a standpoint of the software industry and the software localisation industry.
Software documentation tends to be highly repetitive yet affected by frequent version updates.
Therefore, TM technology has been used throughout this industry for a number of years. As a result, both software publishers and localization agencies have built up large corpora of translation memories, considered as important company assets. The main decision criterion in this context is the gain in production time without quality loss. Other important aspects for the localisation manager are the cost-saving potential and the increase of flexibility through possible process automation. Actually, the fuzzy matching algorithm of TM systems is often based on the calculation of edit distance.