The Multi-Range Theory of Translation Quality Measurement: MQM scoring models and Statistical Quality Control

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Autori principali: Lommel, Arle, Gladkoff, Serge, Melby, Alan, Wright, Sue Ellen, Strandvik, Ingemar, Gasova, Katerina, Vaasa, Angelika, Benzo, Andy, Sparano, Romina Marazzato, Foresi, Monica, Innis, Johani, Han, Lifeng, Nenadic, Goran
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author Lommel, Arle
Gladkoff, Serge
Melby, Alan
Wright, Sue Ellen
Strandvik, Ingemar
Gasova, Katerina
Vaasa, Angelika
Benzo, Andy
Sparano, Romina Marazzato
Foresi, Monica
Innis, Johani
Han, Lifeng
Nenadic, Goran
author_facet Lommel, Arle
Gladkoff, Serge
Melby, Alan
Wright, Sue Ellen
Strandvik, Ingemar
Gasova, Katerina
Vaasa, Angelika
Benzo, Andy
Sparano, Romina Marazzato
Foresi, Monica
Innis, Johani
Han, Lifeng
Nenadic, Goran
contents The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) framework for analytic translation quality evaluation. The MQM error typology has been widely used by practitioners in the translation and localization industry and has served as the basis for many derivative projects. The annual Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) shared tasks on both human and automatic translation quality evaluations used the MQM error typology. The metric stands on two pillars: error typology and the scoring model. The scoring model calculates the quality score from annotation data, detailing how to convert error type and severity counts into numeric scores to determine if the content meets specifications. Previously, only the raw scoring model had been published. This April, the MQM Council published the Linear Calibrated Scoring Model, officially presented herein, along with the Non-Linear Scoring Model, which had not been published before. This paper details the latest MQM developments and presents a universal approach to translation quality measurement across three sample size ranges. It also explains why Statistical Quality Control should be used for very small sample sizes, starting from a single sentence.
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Lommel, Arle
Gladkoff, Serge
Melby, Alan
Wright, Sue Ellen
Strandvik, Ingemar
Gasova, Katerina
Vaasa, Angelika
Benzo, Andy
Sparano, Romina Marazzato
Foresi, Monica
Innis, Johani
Han, Lifeng
Nenadic, Goran
Computation and Language
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The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) framework for analytic translation quality evaluation. The MQM error typology has been widely used by practitioners in the translation and localization industry and has served as the basis for many derivative projects. The annual Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) shared tasks on both human and automatic translation quality evaluations used the MQM error typology. The metric stands on two pillars: error typology and the scoring model. The scoring model calculates the quality score from annotation data, detailing how to convert error type and severity counts into numeric scores to determine if the content meets specifications. Previously, only the raw scoring model had been published. This April, the MQM Council published the Linear Calibrated Scoring Model, officially presented herein, along with the Non-Linear Scoring Model, which had not been published before. This paper details the latest MQM developments and presents a universal approach to translation quality measurement across three sample size ranges. It also explains why Statistical Quality Control should be used for very small sample sizes, starting from a single sentence.
title The Multi-Range Theory of Translation Quality Measurement: MQM scoring models and Statistical Quality Control
topic Computation and Language
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16969