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    • Configure LQA profiles

    Learn how to use Smartcats customizable LQA profiles to label errors, calculate text quality scores, and enhance your translation accuracy.

    You can create LQA profiles for different types of issues found in the source and target texts.

    These profiles can be used to label the errors in the Editor and calculate the quality score for the text.

    How LQA profiles work

    LQA profiles are based on the MQM (Multidimensional Quality Metrics) scoring model where each error is assigned

    • Category (Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, etc.),

    • Weight (0 or more),

    • Severity (Critical= 25, Major=5, Minor=1, Neutral=0).

    The scoring algorithm will automatically collect and process all data from the labels, combine it with additional information such as the size of the text in words and return a value from 0 to 100 which represents the quality score for the specific project.

    Creating LQA profile

    To create an LQA profile act as follows:

    1. Go to Settings -> LQA Profiles.

    Select one of the provided templates: MQM Core or MQM-DQF which represent different versions of MQM framework*, to customize or pick a blank one to create a profile from scratch.

    *Regardless of how the profile is defined, Smartcat will use the same MQM scoring model to calculate the overall quality score.

    2. Enter the profile name, your comments, and the threshold value that will be used to consider the quality test passed or failed.

    3. Set up error categories and severity levels or go with the preset ones.

    4. Click Create level to save the changes.

    Using LQA Labels

    You can add LQA labels to the selected text elements (from the whole segment to one character) as comments in the Editor.

    To add such a (structured) comment, select the text element, press, and pick a label from the drop-down list.

    FAQ

    How does the automatic Quality Assurance feature work in the Editor?

    If there are errors in the target segment, a yellow exclamation point icon appears next to it. To see the list of errors found, hover your cursor over the icon or click on it to open the “QA check” tab. 

    Fix the errors and confirm the segment again.

    QA checks are performed automatically, so some words and phrases can be marked as errors incorrectly. If this happens, check the “Ignore” box next to the error description to hide the yellow icon, or simply ignore the error. 
    You can learn more about the Quality Assurance feature here.