Scoring

Set up the Quality Matrix

Define the relationship between categories, subcategories and severities by assigning a penalty score from 0 to 999 points to each severity level. This determines the importance of each severity level in the overall assessment. For example, you can create the following severity rating for your previously defined Accuracy - Mistranslation subcategory: Critical = 10, Major = 5, Minor = 1, Observation = 0.

Adding an item with 0 penalty points can help if you do not want it to count towards the pass/fail threshold (it may indicate a repetition of an error or it is simply evaluation feedback).

You can assign scoring for a category that does not have any subcategories set up. If the category does have subcategories, you can only assign scoring for the subcategories.

If you delete a category, subcategory or severity level, its corresponding scores are also deleted.

Define the Pass/Fail Threshold

The Pass/Fail Threshold is the maximum penalty score that Studio can admit before failing the TQA check for a project file.

You can define a score per a specific number of words or characters. This means that for each x number of words/characters in a document, Studio tolerates y number of penalty points.

As reviewers label translation issues using the metrics in your TQA configuration, Studio adds up the penalty points corresponding to each severity. When the Pass/Fail Threshold is crossed, the TQA icon on the status bar changes to a crossed out pen: . This shows that translation does not meet the quality level set in the TQA configuration.

After you have set up categories, severities and the scoring for your Translation Quality Assessment process, you can start using TQAs for review. You may also want to set up document types to have a classification of your reviewed documents.