Language Quality Assurance语言质量保证
Language Quality Assurance (LQA) is a structured evaluation process in which reviewers score translated or localized content against defined criteria such as accuracy, terminology, grammar, style, and locale suitability. In translation and localization documentation, LQA appears in quality plans, error typologies, scorecards, and final sign-off reports, where it provides a systematic basis for accepting, revising, or rejecting deliverables at the project or account level.
Angel Translation editorial reference · Confirm the rendering against your source and approved project terminology.
Check source meaning → confirm the preferred term → record approved variants and references.
Where this term appears
In translation and localization work, LQA is used after translation and editing, often on a sample of segments or a full deliverable such as an app UI, help article, or marketing asset. Reviewers log defects by severity and category, and the scores may trigger rework or feed vendor performance dashboards.
Translation checks
A common error is treating LQA as line-editing or rewriting instead of measuring quality against agreed criteria. Over-editing can distort the translation brief and inflate costs, while vague error categories make scores meaningless; without a clear error typology, teams cannot tell whether issues come from terminology, accuracy, style, or formatting.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Creative and consumer content needs accurate meaning as well as tone and context. Subtitles, interfaces and voice scripts also require checks for timing, character limits and pronunciation.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
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