How effective or valid are LQA quality ratings of translations?
Thread poster: John Fossey
John Fossey Canada Local time: 03:14 Member (2008) French to English
Oct 25, 2014
There are several LQA's - Linguistic Quality Assurance models used to assess the quality of translations and assign a numerical value to their quality. These include such standards as LISA, TAUS and SAE J2450, plus a handful of proprietary standards. I am interested to know how effective or valid they are in rating the quality of translations and the experiences people have had with them.
[Edited at 2014-10-25 16:45 GMT]
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Phil Hand China Local time: 15:14 Chinese to English
Not sure I've ever seen them used consistently
Oct 27, 2014
I've seen a couple of systems whereby we were supposed to look for numbers of serious/minor errors, and they were given a weighting (I remember one system was 5 for a serious error, 1 for a minor error). Is that the kind of thing you mean?
The agencies I saw using them didn't seem to be consistent in their use. In particular, when a translation was bad, and the system gave a corresponding bad numerical value, the agency did not always follow through. "Automatic rejects" were not automatically rejected.
In theory they seem quite good to me, though you'd have to remember that they are statistical tools, and of limited value for assessing single pieces of work.
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