How to Review your Translation with 2 Free and Open Source QA Tools
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The document discusses reviewing translations using free and open-source QA tools, emphasizing their role in quality assurance through rule analysis and error detection. It highlights various tools and frameworks such as Okapi and LanguageTool, their functionalities, and supported formats. The author also outlines the benefits and limitations of these QA tools in automating parts of the translation workflow.
How to Review your Translation with 2 Free and Open Source QA Tools
- 1. How to Review your Translation with 2 Free and Open Source QA Tools Sergio Alasia, Qabiria – ProZ.com International Conference – Pisa 29/06/2014
- 2. Open source? ? ?
- 4. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Publicly available Peer reviewed Modifiable Distributable Usable FOR FREE
- 5. Quality Assurance? ? ?
- 6. Set of actions for assuring conformance to specifications
- 7. Quality Assurance in Transalation Linguistic rules Locale parameters Text formatting Mistranslation
- 10. Automate what can be automated
- 11. Translation Project Workflow Projects Users Costs File management Sales Vendor management Translation workflow Query Data warehouse Quality management management Invoicing
- 12. Translation Translation workflow Bilingual editing Quality Assurance Final proofreading Sales Projects Users Costs File management Vendor management Query Data warehouse Quality management management Invoicing
- 13. QA Theory
- 17. QA doesn’t replace editing or proofreading
- 18. How does it work? ? ?
- 21. Rules Omissions Repetitions DNT Translation too long/too short Missing/misplaced tags Terminology (white list and black list) Punctuation Units of measure Numbers Missing parts (email addresses, URLs, etc.) Character encoding Custom patterns …
- 22. Analysis Ongoing translation Rules and filters Reference material
- 23. Does it work?
- 24. • More errors detected • More productivity • Less monotonous work • Quick to run • Too many false positives • Limited capabilities • Less reliable than human review Results → Palex.ru – Online poll 2007
- 25. «We can observe that user satisfaction with all features generally increases → Palex.ru – Online with poll 2007
- 26. QA Tools
- 27. Stand-alone solutions Integrated solutions Commercial tools Free and/or open-source software QA Checker Terminology Verifier Tag Verification XML Validation QA configuration pane Transcheck plugin … OmegaT QA Script LanguageTool plugin Tag Validation ApSIC Xbench 2.9 (Non-Unicode, Freeware) ApSIC Xbench 3.0 (Unicode) … CheckMate … LanguageTool
- 28. Stand-alone solutions Integrated solutions Commercial tools Free and/or open-source software QA Checker Terminology Verifier Tag Verification XML Validation QA configuration pane Transcheck plugin … OmegaT QA Script LanguageTool plugin Tag Validation ApSIC Xbench 2.9 (Non-Unicode, Freeware) ApSIC Xbench 3.0 (Unicode) … CheckMate … LanguageTool
- 29. Software and hardware requirements
- 31. Any OS supporting Java Any hardware supporting that OS
- 33. Okapi Framework
- 34. Okapi Framework The Okapi Framework is a cross-platform and free open-source set of components and applications that offer extensive support for localizing and translating documentation and software.
- 35. Rainbo w GUI app Launcher Longhor Check Mate XLIFF reviewer workbench Ratel GUI app Segmentation Tikal Command line Conversions / Extractions n Plugins for Omeg aT TM Editor Olifant Ocelot GUI app Quality Assurance
- 36. Rainbo w Longhor Check Mate Ratel Tikal n Plugins for Omeg aT Olifant Ocelot Supported formats: • XLIFF • TMX • TTX • PO • TS • Trados-Tagged RTF... ...and any other bilingual format supported by the framework.
- 37. Rainbo w Longhor Check Mate Ratel Tikal n Plugins for Omeg aT Olifant Ocelot Errors detected: • Repeated words • Corrupted characters • Mistaken patterns • Inline codes differences • Translation much longer or shorter than source • Missing translation • Leading and trailing spaces • ...
- 38. Interface
- 40. results (errors)
- 41. preview
- 42. filters
- 47. LanguageTool
- 48. LanguageTool Open source proofreading software for more than 20 languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect and several grammar problems.
- 49. OpenOffi ce and LibreOffic e Plugins Text only check Check Mate Plugin for Omeg aT Langua ge Tool (stand-alone) Server Integrated instant check Integrated instant check
- 50. Langua ge Tool (stand-alone) Server Check Mate OpenOffi ce and LibreOffic e Plugins Plugin for Omega T Main features: • 20+ languages • Checks for grammar and style errors • False friends (bilingual) • Online rule editor • Command line and GUI • Clipboard integration • WebStart version Other add-ons available: • TexStudio (LaTeX) • Oxygen XML editor • Firefox and Thunderbird
- 51. Interface
- 57. Compatibility
- 58. Open standards •All bilingual formats supported by the framework •It accepts TBX glossaries, as well as plain TXT format •Java Regular Expressions
- 59. Warning! Compatibility with other systems’ proprietary formats is not guaranteed.
- 60. Training
- 64. Support
- 65. Useful links Okapi Framework Home page: okapi.opentag.com Yahoo! Group for support: tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/okapitools LanguageTool Home page: www.languagetool.org Support forum: www.languagetool.org/forum How to contribute: www.languagetool.org/contribute wiki.languagetool.org/make-languagetool-better Online rule editor: community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor2
- 66. Contribution
- 67. • Offer financial support • Help with localization • Spread the word • Provide feedback • Report bugs • Submit requests for new features • Test beta versions • Write documentation • Become a developer
- 68. Thank you.
- 69. Questions? E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @TaxiQab Web: www.qabiria.com
Editor's Notes
- #2: • Il progetto Okapi Framework • Checkmate, funzionamento e caratteristiche • Language Tool, correttore stilistico e grammaticale
- #9: Per pigrizia, certo, ma anche perché il tempo non è mai abbastanza e se possiamo automatizzare…
- #10: Per pigrizia, certo, ma anche perché il tempo non è mai abbastanza e se possiamo automatizzare…
- #11: …l’automatizzabile, abbiamo l’obbligo di farlo.
- #14: Quanti di voi usano strumenti o funzionalità di QA? Da quanto tempo?
- #28: Quali di questi programmi conoscete? Quali utilizzate?
- #29: Quali di questi programmi conoscete? Quali utilizzate?
- #35: Grande supporto. Citare Yves Savourel, ENLASO. Gruppo Yahoo!
- #57: Rules in bitext mode In bitext mode, the following rules are used: false friend rules: the rules are matched only when both source and target contain the false friend terms rules for target language generic bitext rules (in Java) bilingual rules for target rules (if they are found in the /rules/[language]/bitext.xml file, where [language] is a two-letter code of the language). The generic bitext rules include the rules that check: if the translation length of the target is not radically different from the source (TRANSLATION_LENGTH) if the translation is not the same for multiple-word sentences (SAME_TRANSLATION) In the future, when the general mechanism for adding custom rules will be implemented, any custom rules will be added as well.
- #68: What can you do to contribute to open source projects? Can you code? Become a developer! Can’t you? It’s never too late to learn!
- #70: • Il progetto Okapi Framework • Checkmate, funzionamento e caratteristiche • Language Tool, correttore stilistico e grammaticale