We have just released two new TQA Models and these should now be visible in your Trados Enterprise account. The two new models are SAE J2450 (Enhanced) and MQM. Read more about these two new models below.

SAE J4250 (Enhanced)

The enhanced SAE J2450 model has one new error category and two new severities. The available categories are:

• Wrong Term
• Wrong Meaning (previously Syntactic Error)
• Omission
• Structural Error
• Misspelling Error
• Punctuation Error
• Miscellaneous Error
• Style Error (new)

The available severities are:

• Minor
• Serious
• Critical (new)
• Preferential Improvement (new)
• Repeated

The default scores and pass threshold have also been adjusted.

MQM

MQM is Multidimensional Quality Metrics. More information is available on the website at https://themqm.org/

MQM has forty-seven sub-categories and five severity levels. The sub-categories are organized into the following categories:

• Terminology
• Accuracy
• Linguistic conventions
• Style
• Locale conventions
• Audience appropriateness
• Design and markup
• Other

The available severities are:

• Minor
• Major
• Critical
• Neutral
• Repeated

The default scores and pass threshold have been taken from best practise guides.

Using the new TQA models

The new models behave in precisely the same way as the previous ones. You can edit the severity scores and threshold of the existing models are you can take a copy and amend the details in the new model. When you have finished setting up the model, you can attach it to a project template to enable reviewers to evaluate the translation against the model. For more information, see the online documentation here.