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Target
Vol. 2:1 (1990) ► pp. 43–67

A Statistical Method for Translation Quality Assessment [1] 1

| Foreign Affairs College, Beijing
This paper attempts to introduce a new statistical method for making a quantitative assessment of the quality of a translation. A set of criteria was defined, against which the quality of a given unit of translation can be measured. These criteria provide a framework within which a mathematical model is constructed. It takes the fuzzy subset theory as its theoretical basis, trying to solve the problem of translation quality assessment by an approach which might be called analysis-synthesis fuzzy evaluation. Mathematical operations can be performed with the aid of a computer program to yield a grade of membership which indicates the quality of a given translation. The model proposed in this paper is, therefore, of methodological significance.
Article outline
  • 1.Quality as a Linguistic Variable
  • 2.Criteria of Translation
  • 3.A Mathematical Model for Quantitative Analysis
  • 4.Sampling and Data
    • Group Q
      • Original
      • Translation
  • 5.Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 01 January 1990
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.2.1.04fan
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