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Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?
Subject:Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations? From:Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com> To:dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com Date:Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:33:58 -0400
I'm not sure that I agree with that assumption. The original question
was "how do you ensure the quality of translations?" not "how do you
ensure high quality of translations."
The reverse translation spot check assumes that you will definitely be
able to identify poor translations (which ensures a certain minimum
quality of translation), but cannot demonstrate that the translation is
of a particular high quality.
Personally, I feel that it's impossible to find a consistent method that
guarantees high quality translations, but it's fairly trivial to
identify poor quality translations which is ultimately the more useful
as it's the poor ones that cause problems.
On 7/27/09 11:03 AM, Deborah Hemstreet wrote:
> The assumption is that if this small sample is good, the entire document
> will be good.
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