Our Quality Metrics is designed integrating standard practice of the industry, advanced calculation methodology and our decade-old experience. It provides a method for classifying and weighing translation errors and thus calculates a score for translation quality.
With the quality metrics, we are able to assess translation quality in terms of the following parameters:
- Semantic - The target text should accurately and unambiguously convey the right meaning of the source text, with no interpretation errors.
- Terminology - Accurate terms should be used in specialized fields, such as science & technology, law, finance, etc.
- Grammar & Syntactic - All elements in a sentence, such as words and phrases, should be organized according to grammatical and syntactic requirements of the target languages.
- Style - The target text should retain the styles of the source, such as elegant, formal and colloquial. Never use outdated or culturally inappropriate expression or wording.
- Omission & Addition -It refers to the case when meaning not explicitly expressed in the source is added or segments that are semantically important are deleted in the target.
- Structure & Agreement - A Structure Error occurs when an otherwise correct target word or term is expressed in an incorrect morphological form. An Agreement Error occurs when two or more target words disagree in any form of inflection.
- Spelling & Typos - The target text should contain no spelling or typo errors.
- Punctuation, Capitalization, Spacing & formatting - The target text should use punctuation marks correctly in accordance with recognized rules and recommendations of the target language.
- Miscellaneous error - Errors related to the target language which are not clearly attributable to one of the above categories
Once error categories are assigned, different weights and severity levels are assigned to each error occurred and a final quality score is obtained, offering us an insight into translation quality of a specific job.