How to Evaluate a Translation

[AriSanguinetti]

Hi all!

I'm just wondering if any of you have experience evaluating translations or if your translation have been evaluated by someone.

My main concern is how to measure the Quality of a translation, we could score it in a scale from 1 to 10, being 10 a perfect translation for example.

It would be great if we could build together a Checklist of things to take in account when evaluating a translation and how important is an error in the final score.

For example, I think that a translation with spelling issues should not be scored with more than a 6.

Saludos!

[joselas]

Hi Ari

A translation with spelling mistakes is unacceptable.. A 6 would be a too kind. There are all sorts of grammar check tools to avoid them

J.

[Davidrainey]

Any kind of mistake in translation is not at all acceptable. We define a good translation as one in which no errors are made. Marking less than 8 could not be said as a quality translation.

[Salvadorm]

There are some standards about translations errors and quality
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