There are several QA tools on the market and I'll focus on two of them that are free and open-source. They are useful before delivery to automatically process your translation against a set of custom parameters, such as translation memories, term bases, punctuation rules, etc., in order to detect mistakes that might have escaped in the editing phase. learning objectives: You'll learn how to set up and use two free tools to improve the quality of your translation.

1. How to Review your Translation
with 2 Free and Open Source
QA Tools
Sergio Alasia, Qabiria – ProZ.com International Conference – Pisa 29/06/2014

2. Open source?
? ?

4. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Publicly available
Peer reviewed
Modifiable
Distributable
Usable
FOR FREE

5. Quality
Assurance? ? ?

6. Set of actions for
assuring
conformance to
specifications

7. Quality Assurance in
Transalation
Linguistic rules
Locale parameters
Text formatting
Mistranslation

10. Automate what can
be automated

11. Translation Project
Workflow
Projects
Users
Costs
File
management
Sales
Vendor
management
Translation
workflow
Query
Data
warehouse
Quality
management
management
Invoicing

12. Translation
Translation
workflow
Bilingual
editing
Quality
Assurance
Final
proofreading
Sales
Projects
Users
Costs
File
management
Vendor
management
Query
Data
warehouse
Quality
management
management
Invoicing

13. QA Theory

15. tool
configuratio
n

17. QA doesn’t
replace
editing or
proofreading

18. How does it
work?
? ?

19. Rules
Analysis
Results

20. Rules
Analysis
Results

21. Rules
Omissions
Repetitions
DNT
Translation too long/too
short
Missing/misplaced tags
Terminology
(white list and black list)
Punctuation
Units of measure
Numbers
Missing parts
(email addresses, URLs,
etc.)
Character encoding
Custom patterns
…

22. Analysis
Ongoing translation
Rules and filters
Reference material

23. Does it work?

24. • More errors detected
• More productivity
• Less monotonous
work
• Quick to run
• Too many false
positives
• Limited capabilities
• Less reliable than
human review
Results
→ Palex.ru – Online poll
2007

25. «We can
observe that
user
satisfaction
with all features
generally
increases → Palex.ru – Online with
poll 2007

26. QA Tools

27. Stand-alone solutions Integrated solutions
Commercial tools Free and/or open-source software
QA Checker
Terminology
Verifier
Tag Verification
XML Validation
QA configuration
pane
Transcheck
plugin
…
OmegaT
QA Script
LanguageTool
plugin
Tag Validation
ApSIC Xbench 2.9 (Non-Unicode, Freeware)
ApSIC Xbench 3.0 (Unicode)
…
CheckMate
…
LanguageTool

28. Stand-alone solutions Integrated solutions
Commercial tools Free and/or open-source software
QA Checker
Terminology
Verifier
Tag Verification
XML Validation
QA configuration
pane
Transcheck
plugin
…
OmegaT
QA Script
LanguageTool
plugin
Tag Validation
ApSIC Xbench 2.9 (Non-Unicode, Freeware)
ApSIC Xbench 3.0 (Unicode)
…
CheckMate
…
LanguageTool

29. Software and hardware
requirements

31. Any OS supporting Java
Any hardware supporting that
OS

33. Okapi Framework

34. Okapi Framework
The Okapi Framework is a cross-platform
and free open-source
set of components and
applications that offer extensive
support for localizing and
translating documentation and
software.

35. Rainbo
w
GUI app
Launcher
Longhor
Check
Mate
XLIFF reviewer
workbench
Ratel GUI app
Segmentation
Tikal Command line
Conversions / Extractions
n
Plugins
for
Omeg
aT
TM Editor Olifant
Ocelot
GUI app
Quality Assurance

36. Rainbo
w
Longhor
Check
Mate
Ratel
Tikal
n
Plugins
for
Omeg
aT
Olifant
Ocelot
Supported formats:
• XLIFF
• TMX
• TTX
• PO
• TS
• Trados-Tagged
RTF...
...and any other
bilingual format
supported by the
framework.

37. Rainbo
w
Longhor
Check
Mate
Ratel
Tikal
n
Plugins
for
Omeg
aT
Olifant
Ocelot
Errors detected:
• Repeated words
• Corrupted
characters
• Mistaken patterns
• Inline codes
differences
• Translation much
longer or shorter
than source
• Missing translation
• Leading and
trailing spaces
• ...

38. Interface

40. results (errors)

41. preview

42. filters

47. LanguageTool

48. LanguageTool
Open source proofreading
software for more than 20
languages.
It finds many errors that a
simple spell checker cannot
detect and several grammar
problems.

49. OpenOffi
ce and
LibreOffic
e Plugins
Text only check
Check
Mate
Plugin
for
Omeg
aT
Langua
ge Tool
(stand-alone)
Server
Integrated instant
check
Integrated instant
check

50. Langua
ge Tool
(stand-alone)
Server Check
Mate
OpenOffi
ce and
LibreOffic
e Plugins
Plugin
for
Omega
T
Main features:
• 20+ languages
• Checks for grammar
and style errors
• False friends (bilingual)
• Online rule editor
• Command line and
GUI
• Clipboard integration
• WebStart version
Other add-ons available:
• TexStudio (LaTeX)
• Oxygen XML editor
• Firefox and
Thunderbird

51. Interface

57. Compatibility

58. Open standards
•All bilingual formats supported
by the framework
•It accepts TBX glossaries, as
well as plain TXT format
•Java Regular Expressions

59. Warning!
Compatibility with
other systems’
proprietary formats is
not guaranteed.

60. Training

61. Okapi Framework Wiki

62. LanguageTool Wiki

64. Support

65. Useful links
Okapi Framework
Home page: okapi.opentag.com
Yahoo! Group for support:
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/okapitools
LanguageTool
Home page: www.languagetool.org
Support forum: www.languagetool.org/forum
How to contribute: www.languagetool.org/contribute
wiki.languagetool.org/make-languagetool-better
Online rule editor: community.languagetool.org/ruleEditor2

66. Contribution

67. • Offer financial support
• Help with localization
• Spread the word
• Provide feedback
• Report bugs
• Submit requests for new features
• Test beta versions
• Write documentation
• Become a developer

68. Thank you.

69. Questions?
E-mail: salasia@qabiria.com
Twitter: @TaxiQab
Web: www.qabiria.com