Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?

Subject: Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?
From: Deborah Hemstreet <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com>
To: Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:10:27 -0400

Exactly, that is why there is so much debate about this method

Deborah

Dossy Shiobara wrote:
> 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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References:
How do you ensure the quality of translations?: From: Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)
Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?: From: Dossy Shiobara
RE: How do you ensure the quality of translations?: From: Dan Goldstein
Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?: From: Deborah Hemstreet
Re: How do you ensure the quality of translations?: From: Dossy Shiobara

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