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I think double-checking results would bring the most benefit, especially if done by a native speaker of the target language. They don't have to understand the s
by nzmsv 17y ago
I think double-checking results would bring the most benefit, especially if done by a native speaker of the target language. They don't have to understand the source language, just point out that a sentence makes no sense or uses awkward grammar.
- patio11 17y agoThey don't have to understand the source language Find the mistake in the following sentence which cost my company $X (can't tell you, but it is eyepopping): "The subject registration screen should list the lecture subject name, drawn from the database table for the lectures subject name."
- andrewljohnson 17y agoI can find at least one grammar mistake. There should be an apostrophe in lecture's. Did that cost you money?
- patio11 17y agoYour correction was precisely what cost $X.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoCan you explain why this cost money without revealing too much?
- patio11 17y agoThere is a long standing tradition at a major customer of my company, unrelated to this system, that any worker anywhere on the line can hit a Big Red Button which will stop the line if they detect a quality issue. Hitting the Big Red Button has immediate costs: it delays production ($$$), it incurs overtime expenses to get the lost production back ($$$), it throws your supply lines into chaos ($$), it causes you to miss targets with your customers and pay out contractual damages ($$$$$$), etc, etc. Hitting the Big Red Button on a software project is cheaper, but not free. (For example, the Big Red Button plan for customer acceptance testing might sound like "Nobody goes home if there is an unknown risk to delivery", and a translation error anywhere means there is an unknown risk to delivery until you have verified that whatever process introduced the error was not similarly out of control elsewhere.)
- az 17y agoYes, double-checking like the way 'recaptha' sign up forms work! Two images re-confirmed by millions across the web. Great idea. I wonder if there are other ways to confirm data in other instances... (Where recaptha-like processing is n/a).