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QA Distiller AUTOMATED TRANSLATION QUALITY CONTROL Proudly developed by Yamagata Europe YAMAGATA EUROPE | Thomas Vackier | March 23, 2011 Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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QA Distiller is a stand-alone translation quality control tool to check bilingual files.
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QA Distiller AUTOMATED TRANSLATION QUALITY CONTROL
Proudly developed by Yamagata Europe
YAMAGATA EUROPE
| Thomas Vackier | March 23, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
YAMAGATA EUROPETranslating Knowledge
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What do we do?
Core business
We write
We translate
We do the layout
We print
We package & ship
We create software
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On what scale do we do it?
Size matters
Team of 50 people
Pool of 1000 language vendors
Translate about 400,000 words a day
Translate into 50 languages
Layout 450 pages a day
18,000 publications a day
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How it all startedand got completely out of hand
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Finding errors manually
The European way
PLAIN BORING
SUBJECTIVE
PRONE TO OVERSIGHTS
NOT EVERYTHING IS CHECKED DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS
LABOUR INTENSIVE
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Finding errors manually
The Japanese way
Our Japanese colleagues were able to find more mistakes
Even in languages they didn't understand
Very methodical
Extremely consistent
Still very costly
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AUTOMATEWhat you can objectively measure,
you can automate
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Enter QA Distiller
First version developed in 2003
We gain time
We check everything
We check objectively
We check in the same way
We have reports
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What can QA Distiller check?
Supported checks
OMISSIONS
INCONSISTENCIES
FORMATTING
TERMINOLOGY
CUSTOM PATTERNS
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What can’t it check?
Human revision still needed!
Caveat
GRAMMAR
STYLE
SPELLING*
TRANSFER OF MEANING
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Input formats & languages
Formats & languages
BILINGUAL
TERMINOLOGY
TTX (Trados TagEditor) TMX (Translation Memory eXchange)
XLIFF (including SDL XLIFF used in SDL Studio)
DICT (created from Excel using QA Distiller) TBX (TermBase
eXchange)
Bilingual Word not supported
LANGUAGES More than 70, including RTL and CJK
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Omissions
Omissions
EMPTY
FORGOTTEN
SKIPPED
PARTIALLY FORGOTTEN
TOO SHORT/LONG
Spaces or nothing
Source = Target
Untouched
Parts left untranslated
Percentage
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Inconsistencies
Inconsistencies
TARGET LANGUAGE
SOURCE LANGUAGE
Switch the unit ON has been translated differently
1 time(s) as
Schakel
het toestel
aan 1 time(s) as
Schakel
het toestel
uit
Schakel
het toestel
aan has been used for 2 different source
segments 1 time(s) for
Switch the unit ON
1 time(s) for
Switch the unit OFF
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Formatting
Language independent
SPACING ISSUES
PUNCTUATION
BRACKETS
TABS
CAPITALISATION
Double, extra leading, trailing
Double, end of segment
Non-matching pairs
Different count
Initial, entire
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Formatting
Language dependent
CORRUPT CHARACTERS
SPACING
NUMBERS
QUOTATION MARKS
MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Garbled letters like �,⃞
Required, forbidden
Values, formatting
Non-matching, type
Type, conversion
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Terminology
Proprietary dictionary and TBX
EXCEL
OPEN OFFICE
SDL MULTITERM 2009
TERMWEB
Convert to DICT using QA Distiller
Free plug-in to export to TBX
Export to TBX
Export to TBX
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Custom patterns
Search and Regular Expressions
SEARCH
REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
Source and/or Target
Report patterns
Ignore patterns
Make your own checks!
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REPORTSShare error logs
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THE CURSEof the
FALSE POSITIVESand how to avoid it
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PROFILESShare settings
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BATCH REPLACEDo more in less time
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A SAMPLE PROJECTGarbage in, garbage out quality out
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THE FUTUREThe future is bright, and regex-flavoured
