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SAE J2450 Translation Quality Metric is a quality assurance metric used in the automotive industry to grade the quality of translations of service information. It was developed by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to create a consistent standard to judge the quality of translation, regardless of the source or target language. The metric can be applied to either human translation or machine translation.[1] To carry out an assessment, the analyst tallies pre-defined types of translation errors in the document then uses weighting and normalization to derive a score that can be compared across different documents.

History

The SAE J2450 Translation Quality Metric was developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) under the J2450 Task Force on a Quality Metric for Language Translation of Service Information. The task force formed in 1997 and contained representatives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.[2] The first version of SAE J2450 was released in August, 2001 as a recommended practice.[3]

At the end of 2001, a European SAE-2450-Committee was founded to fix problems in and improve the original metric. Members of this committee came from the language staffs at

Daimler-Chrysler, Audi and Volkswagen and other European translation agencies. After negotiations between the American and European car makers, J2450 became an SAE-Norm in 2005.[citation needed
]

As of 2024, the current version of the standard is J2450_201608.[4]

Description

SAE J2450 bases quality scores on seven types of errors: wrong term,

weighted sum of the errors normalized
by the number of words in the source text.

As well as introducing a unified way to compare the quality of a variety different texts and translations, the method's categorization of errors can further assist in the identification of particular problem areas. It also speeds up post-translation review processes.[3]

Quality benchmark

Since its publication, SAE J2450 Translation Quality Metric has become one of the most important measurements in judging the quality of translation in the

car manufacturers
.

References

  1. ^ SAE J2450 Translation Quality Metric. Vehicle E/E System Diagnostic Standards Committee. 2001.
  2. Society of Automotive Engineers
    . Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Article for translators: Mission Impossible: Improve Quality, Time and Speed At the Same Time". www.translationdirectory.com. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  4. Society of Automotive Engineers
    . Retrieved 29 January 2024.
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