Dynamic Quality Framework: quantifying and benchmarking quality

Abstract

Translation quality is one of the key topics in the translation industry today. In 2011, TAUS developed the Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) in an attempt to standardize translation quality evaluation. Quality in DQF is considered dynamic since today’s translation quality requirements change depending on content type, purpose and audience. DQF contains a rich knowledge base, resources on quality evaluation and a number of tools to profile and evaluate translated content. As of this year, DQF is freely available for academics and can be accessed on the TAUS Evaluate platform.

Keywords

• translation quality evaluation
• MT evaluation
• DQF
• TAUS
• tools
• metrics