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    Daniel, you lost me a little with linguistic quality assurance. What does that process entail?

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    A linguistic quality assurance or LQA is a process from the localization industry that companies define according to their needs and processes. It's basically a control of the linguistic part of the text.

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    Hi Adam,

    Some companies have to translate and back-translate documents to respect ISO norms. The rule is: the translating team has to be completely different from the back-translating team (with no contact between both teams). If the translation has a memory, it can't be used for the back-translation.
    On a higher level, a back translation is the best QA check you could have. Indeed, if the back translated term doesnt match the source term, it means that the translation was wrong: take for instance "spouse", that is translated to "esposa", that is back-translated to "wife".... You start with "spouse" and end up woth "wife"=the spanish translation was incorrect.

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    Hi Nabyl,

    Thanks for the detailed reply! Are there other methods used for checking the quality of a translation, or is this the only option?

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    There are a lot of methods, and softwares for QA checks. You can always add control steps to a project. But I think the back translation is the "ultimate" one.

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    Exactly. There are hundreds of options for quality check. They will depend on what is required. The process changes if you need to check the style, the terminology or the correspondance.

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    Okay, so back translation is the way to go, if you want to really be sure the translation is correct. Thanks guys!

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    It's mainly used for market surveys, sociological studies, medical forms, psychological examinations, informed consent forms, client-satisfaction assessment, pharmaceutical queries, research study protocols, etc.

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    Maximiliano, Do you mean there are other uses for back translation other than checking the quality of the translation?

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    Well, most often back translation is requested to satisfy a legal or regulatory requirement or to add additional quality checks to the forward translations. But the bottom line is always checking the accuracy of the translation.

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