memoQ knows about Linguistic Quality Assurance. This is a way of adding human feedback to documents. The human reviewers can structure and formalize their feedback, and grade the translations if necessary. You use the LQA options - LQA models - to enter these and report about them.

An LQA model defines error categories. You can use these to score the errors, grade the translations. Some models allow you to fail a translation.

There are several standards about LQA. memoQ supports tbree of these: J2450, LISA, and TAUS. In addition, memoQ introduces yet another LQA model of its own.

To learn more about the various settings, see the topic about editing LQA models.

Don't mix LQA with QA: memoQ can check for some errors automatically. Those checks are called quality assurance checks. memoQ can check for the consistency of terms, or the length or the translations, or the matching of inline tags.

Belongs to a project: You choose an LQA model for a project. To make your choice, open a project. In Project home, choose Settings. Click the LQA models icon. (This icon shows an angry face.) Check the check box of the LQA model set you want to use.

Always add an LQA model to your project before you start importing documents.

To enter LQA feedback from the translation editor: Reject a segment using Shift+Enter, and fill in the form that appears. The form doesn't appear if you don't have an LQA model in your project.

Empty LQA model: A new LQA model is empty. You need to edit it to set up categories, severities, and grades.

How to get here

Open the Resource Console. Choose LQA settings. Under the list, click Create new.

From a project: Open a project. In Project home, choose Settings. In the Settings pane, click the LQA models icon. (This icon shows an angry face.) Under the list, click Create/use new. This command creates the LQA model, and adds it to the project.

From an online project: Open an online project for management. In the memoQ online project window, choose Settings. In the Settings pane, click the LQA models icon. (This icon shows an angry face.) Under the list, click Create/use new. This command creates the LQA model, and adds it to the project.

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If My Computer is selected in Resource Console

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If a memoQ server is selected in Resource Console, even if you come from a local project

What can you do?

Choose a place for the LQA model (Resource Console only)

Give a name and a description to the LQA model

When you finish

To create the LQA model: Click OK.

To return to the Resource Console or to Project home, and not create an LQA model: Click Cancel.

How can you use an LQA model?