Linguistic Quality Assurance is the process of objectively evaluating translations based on a schema of error types.
The Linguistic Quality Assurance report gives a granular view of errors recorded within each category, on a string-level.
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.
The LQA report can take up to 24 hours to generate.
Tip: You can view up to the first 2,000 rows of data, however, the full report can be downloaded and viewed offline.
Access 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: Name of the Smartling account where LQA was carried out.
- Project Name: Name of the Smartling project where LQA was carried out.
- Project Uid: This is a unique identifier for each project in Smartling.
- Job Name: Name of the Smartling translation Job where LQA was carried out.
- Translation Job Uid: This is a unique identifier for each translation Job in Smartling.
- Job Number: Job number of the Job where LQA was carried out (if available)
- Reference Number: Reference number of the Job where LQA was carried out (if available).
- Hashcode: This is a unique identifier for each string in Smartling.
- Original Text: This is the source text.
- Locale ID: This is the locale code of the target locale.
- Translation Text: This is the original translation which went through LQA.
- Translated by (Name): Name of the Smartling user who translated the string.
- Translated by (UID): Unique identifier for the Smartling user who translated the string.
- Schema Name: Name of the LQA Schema used during the LQA process.
- Review Submit Date: Date when the LQA error was recorded.
- No LQA Errors (Yes/No): If no errors were recorded for a string, this column shows the value "Yes". If errors were recorded, this column shows the value "No".
- Category Name: Name of the recorded error category.
- Error Type Name: Name of the recorded error type.
- Severity Name: When using a schema template or a schema with a custom select menu for severity levels, the severity name will be displayed here.
- Severity Score: When using a schema with a numeric severity format, a numeric severity value will be displayed here.
- Comment: Comments added by the LQA reviewer.
- LQA Error recorded by (Name): Name of the Smartling user who recorded the LQA error.
- LQA Error recorded by (UID): Unique identifier for the Smartling user who recorded the LQA error.
- LQA error Workflow Step: Name of the workflow step where the LQA process was carried out.
- LQA error Workflow Name: Name of the workflow where the LQA process was carried out.
- Edited Translation: This is the translation that was edited and submitted from the LQA step.
- Final Translation: This is the latest published translation for the relevant string.
- Translation Workflow Step: Workflow step where the LQAed translation was originally submitted. If a separate workflow is used for LQA, this may differ from the "LQA error Workflow Step".
- Translation Workflow Name: Name of the workflow where the LQAed translation was originally submitted. If a separate workflow is used for LQA, this may differ from the "LQA error Workflow Name".
- Arbitration Comment: Comments added during the arbitration process.
- SmartMatched (Yes / No): The value "Yes" means that the LQAed translation was produced as a result of SmartMatch.
- Word Count: Word count of the source string.
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
- Locale ID
- Show Change History (Yes / No)
- By filtering for the option "Yes", the report will show all LQA reviews and their previous states.
- By filtering for the option "No", the report will show all LQA reviews in their latest state.
- The default option for this filter is "No".
- Project Name
- Job Name
Download the Report
The information gathered in this report can be downloaded as a PDF or CSV file by clicking the ellipsis on the top-right hand side of the page.
You can schedule the delivery of the report to be sent directly from Smartling to any email address.
This scheduled email can be set to a preferred delivery time and date on a recurring basis.
Note: This download is limited to the first 2,000 rows of data displayed on the filtered report.
Download All Data
To download all data available for the time period:
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Hover over the table > click the ellipsis that appear on hover > choose Download data
- In the modal, click to expand Advanced data options > All results
LQA Quality Score Report
For more information on translation quality scores generated from MQM schemas, read our documentation on Assess Translation Quality with the LQA Dashboard.
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.