Using descriptive mark-up to formalize translation quality assessment

TL;DR

This paper proposes an XML-based descriptive mark-up method for formalizing translation mistake annotation, aiming to standardize and automate translation quality assessment and facilitate corpus studies.

Contribution

It introduces a novel XML-based framework for marking translation errors, enabling standardized, impersonal, and potentially automatic quality evaluation.

Findings

Developed guidelines for descriptive mark-up of translation mistakes

Demonstrated potential for automatic translation assessment

Facilitated corpus-based translation studies

Abstract

The paper deals with using descriptive mark-up to emphasize translation mistakes. The author postulates the necessity to develop a standard and formal XML-based way of describing translation mistakes. It is considered to be important for achieving impersonal translation quality assessment. Marked-up translations can be used in corpus translation studies; moreover, automatic translation assessment based on marked-up mistakes is possible. The paper concludes with setting up guidelines for further activity within the described field.