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What does the quality score mean?

It is a 0–100 rating transglot produces for a translation, backed by a list of specific findings, not a certification, and not a substitute for reading the findings.

It is a 0–100 rating transglot produces for a translation, backed by a list of specific findings, not a certification, and not a substitute for reading the findings.

Who this is for

Anyone reading a score and deciding what to do about it.

What happens next

The quality score is a 0–100 rating that transglot produces for a translation, alongside a list of specific findings, each with a severity. The scorecard groups those findings using the industry-standard MQM categories so they can be compared with other tools' reports.

The categories are the standard five:

  • Accuracy: the translation does not convey the source meaning.

  • Fluency: grammar, spelling or punctuation problems in the target language.

  • Terminology: a term departs from your glossary.

  • Style: awkward, off-register or inconsistent phrasing.

  • Locale convention: placeholders, plural categories, length limits, number and date formatting.

Two things the score is not. It is not an external certification: it is our assessment, expressed in a shared vocabulary so it can be compared. And it is not a gate: a low score does not stop anything shipping. The findings are what you act on; the score is the summary you report.

A score only exists for translations a quality check has actually looked at. Run a check to get one.

Related

  • Quality checks

  • The per-language scorecard

  • Why was my translation flagged for review?

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