A key challenge in the localization business is to ensure the correct product terminology is used across all localized materials. Most companies have over the years accumulated significant linguistic assets in the form of Translation Memories and Glossaries. However, it is not always possible to know if the TM segments being recycled from one release to the next contain the most up to date and approved glossary terms. Avantix Global developed KeyTerm QA to tackle this problem and help ensure clients that their terminology is consistent across user interfaces, user assistance and marketing or support content. The application has evolved to provide other automated QA checks resulting is higher quality translation output and faster turnaround.
KeyTerm QA is a cloud based linguistic QA system that integrates common linguistic QA checks into a simple set of online services.
FeaturesKeyTerm QA performs a number of automated linguistic checks designed to ensure quality translations for our client's product and content. The application checks the consistency of legacy translations against current glossaries and provides scalable in process QA for ongoing projects, identifying important quality issues such as:
- Incorrect glossary terminology use
- Untranslated segments
- Unique source segment with multiple target translations
- Multiple source segments with unique translated target
- Limits the recycling of errors or out of date terminology from legacy TM’s into current projects
- Reduces cost of 3rd party Linguistic QA by finding glossary errors during translation cycle
- Allows 100% LQA coverage of content instead of sample spot checks
- Improves quality and shortens turnaround of streaming releases
- Allows LQA budgets to be focused on overall linguistic quality
Legacy Content Verification -
KeyTerm QA allows a user check legacy TM's against current glossaries to verify that terminology is up to date and accurate before it is recycled into the next release. This pre-release QA improves overall product quality and consistency across application families and provides localization managers the peace of mind that terminology is up to date and accurate in product releases.
Ongoing Translation QA -
Ensuring that translators always use the most up to date approved glossary terms is not always as straight-forward a process as it should be. While most translation memory tools allow glossary suggestion during use, it is up to the translator to use these tools correctly during translation. KeyTerm QA allows Avantix verify glossary usage at delivery time from our translators. When a translator returns a piece of translation, KeyTerm QA will automatically check the new TM segments against an approved glossary file to ensure it was applied correctly and consistently.
To learn more about KeyTerm QA or to schedule a demo, please contact us.