- The document discusses the challenges of linguistic quality assurance (QA) in online translation environments and existing QA technologies and their shortcomings. - It introduces the lexiQA solution, an online API that can integrate full QA functionality into any translation workflow with language-specific checks, lower noise levels, and reduced time and costs for human review. - A demo of lexiQA integrated with MateCat is shown, and future plans outlined including adding languages, clean-up tools, and custom plugins for major CAT tools.

1. Linguistic QA in online translation environments:
An old problem, a new solution
Vassilis Korkas
lexiQA co-founder and COO
TAUS Translation Technology Showcase - Dublin 8 June 2016

2. Overview
• The challenges of linguistic quality assurance (QA)
• Existing QA technologies
• Problems and shortcomings
• The lexiQA solution
• Advantages of online integration with lexiQA
• lexiQA demo
• Where we are now
• Looking forward

3. The challenges of linguistic QA
• Linguistic quality is difficult to achieve but easy to
judge (client expectations and subjectivity)
• Locale-specific grammatical rules and conventions
• Configuration of QA systems can be very complex
• Resource-intensiveness and cost (of human review)

4. Existing QA technologies
• Most CAT tools have some built-in QA functionality
• Stand-alone offline QA tools
• Some designed for error detection/correction
• Others use translation quality metrics for
assessment purposes
• Custom tools developed by LSPs and translation
buyers

5. Problems and shortcomings
• Most checks are language-independent
 Noise levels are usually very high
• Manual and offline QA
• Workflow integration is cumbersome
• Most checks are done after translation
• Processing error reports is very time-consuming
• Resistance from translators and reviewers

6. The lexiQA solution
• Online API solution which can bring full QA
functionality to any translation environment
• Unintrusive to existing workflows
• Can be used for current translations, legacy
projects, translation memory clean-up, etc.

7. Advantages of online integration with lexiQA
• Consolidation of QA in your own platform
• Language-specific checks
• Lower levels of noise (<10%)
• Short learning curve
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Online and user-friendly QA reports
• Reduced time/cost of human review

8. lexiQA demo
(integration with MateCat)

9. Where we are now
• In development since late January 2016
• Four working languages (En, Fr, De, It)
• Over 30 error classes detected
• Glossary checks / spell-checking
• Integration with MateCat and used in production
• Offering a variable business model
• Volume-based licensing
• API customisation based on client requirements

10. Looking forward
• Addition of new languages and functions
• Clean-up of .tmx/.xliff files
• User roles and global/project/personal settings
• Development of custom plug-ins for major CAT tools

11. Thank you for your attention
Vassilis Korkas
vassilis@lexiqa.net
We want to change the way linguistic QA is
delivered in the language services industry