Quality evaluation is a costly task in the translation sector. It can take up more than 20% of the time spent on the actual translation production. Quality reporting is costly too. It is still a highly manual task, for most of us at least. And what’s worse, we find it hard to assure and deliver the quality that our customers and end-users need and want. In short, quality evaluation in the translation industry is failing.

1. Topic 2: QE made easy

2. Black box

3. 3 things coming together
Standard metrics
The MQM-DQF harmonized quality metrics is widely adopted
by translation buyers, technology and service providers.

4. 3 things coming together
Workflow integration
TAUS has coded the MQM-DQF metric into an API and made
this API available under an open source license. Buyers and
technology providers are building plugins with this API to
integrate QE in their workflow.

5. 3 things coming together
Dashboards
The data on quality evaluation and translation productivity are
collected automatically and used to generate reports on the TAUS
Quality Dashboard and other internal company dashboards.

6. Translation & review
dataMetrics
Algorithms
Project creation
data
How it works

7. Design principles of the Quality Dashboard

8. Outline
Demos: SDL Trados Studio/WorldServer & XTM
- Massimo Ghislandi (SDL)
- Bob Willans (XTM)
Discussion: Quality is communication
- Katka Gasova (Moravia)
- Maria Illescas (Seprotec)
- Sien Accou (Yamagata Europe)

9. Thank you!