Linguistic Quality Assurance is the process of objectively evaluating translations based on a schema of error types.
The information in the Linguistic Quality Assurance report can be used by your stakeholders to make strategic decisions on your localization process.
It is important to remember that although LQA is highly useful in highlighting areas of focus on your translations, it is one of many ways to assign a quantitative metric to translations. LQA scores are useful, but should not be viewed in a vacuum. Human translation quality simply should not be boiled down to numbers (with no other qualitative quality measurement).
The LQA report can take up to 24 hours to generate.
Accessing the LQA Report
The LQA report containing all translations that have been evaluated can be accessed via the Reports dropdown, under Quality Reports > Linguistic Quality Assurance.
Viewing the LQA Report
The LQA Report contains the following columns of data, in the following order:
- Account Name
- Project Name
- Project Uid
- Job Name
- Translation
- Job Uid
- Job Number
- Reference Number
- Hashcode
- Original Text
- Locale ID
- Translation Text
- Translated by (Name)
- Translated by (UID)
- Schema Name
- Review Submit Date
- Category Name
- Error Type Name
- Severity Name
- Severity Score
- Comment
- LQA Error recorded by (Name)
- LQA Error recorded by (UID)
- LQA error Workflow Step
- LQA error Workflow Name
- Edited Translation
- Translation Workflow Step
- Translation Workflow Name
- Arbitration Comment
Columns can be reordered in the Smartling interface, however the downloaded report follows the above order.
Report Filters
You can filter the report by the following criteria:
- LQA Category Name
- LQA Error Type
- Hashcode
- Is Latest Review (Yes / No)
- Project Name
- Job Name
Downloading the Report
The information gathered in this report can be downloaded as a PDF or CSV file, and sent directly from Smartling to any email address. This email can also be scheduled to a preferred delivery time and date on a recurring basis.
Errors & Arbitration Report
For more information on Linguistic Quality Assurance Errors & Arbitration, read our documentation on Linguistic Quality Assurance Errors & Arbitration.
Errors Density Report
For more information on Linguistic Quality Assurance Errors Density, read our documentation on Linguistic Quality Assurance Error Density.
Additional Resources
For information on how to set up LQA, read our documentation on Setting Up LQA.
For information on how translations are evaluated with LQA, read our documentation on Evaluating Translations with LQA.