Presentation and demonstration by Dace Dzeguze, TAUS

1. TAUS Quality Dashboard
Measuring and benchmarking translation quality and productivity
on an industry-shared platform
www.taus.net

2. Translator
Buyer
Project Manager
The translation industry is a black box
Reviewer
A sneak peek into the black box…

3. The origins of Dynamic Quality Framework
2011
Content Profiling
Knowledge Base
Evaluation Tools

4. 4
NEW APPROACH: Quality is dynamic
TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework
1. Dynamic:
• Quality level change based on content, process and audience
2. Objective:
• Standardized QE workflow with tools shared by the whole
industry
• Wide acceptance across stakeholders
3. Cheaper:
• More transparency > Less friction
• TAUS provides the tool set for QE
4. Business Intelligence:
• Quantifying QE > reports and scores + benchmarking

5. Design principles of TAUS Quality Dashboard
Transparent
Benchmarking
Support
Standard
Participation
Open

6. How does it work?
Project creation
data
Translation & review
dataMetrics
Algorithms

8. Error Review

9. DQF – MQM Harmonized error typology

10. Committed DQF users

11. SDL Studio plug-in demo

12. Thank you!