Tags Quality Assurance
Tag errors are easy to miss. That’s why Lilt’s Auto Review automatically searches for potential tag errors for you, saving time and effort. This article goes over using Auto Review for finding tag errors. To learn more about tags in general, see the Tags & Formatting article.
Running Auto Review
To run Auto Review to reveal tag errors across all segments in a document, open the File
tab and click Run full QA check
.
To run Auto Review on a single segment, click on the QA
button on the right side of the segment.
After running Auto Review, if any potential tag issues are found, they will be highlighted in Lilt Translate. Note that the Auto Review also searches for and displays Linguistic Errors.
Hover over any tags highlighted by the QA check to see information and suggestions about the tag error.
Issues with tag placement are typically found around punctuation, whitespace, or numbers. These types of tag errors can be easily overlooked, so utilizing Lilt’s Auto Review to automatically search for them is a good way to ensure accuracy.
Summary of the Tag QA rules
Error Message | Possible Triggers | Example |
---|---|---|
Tags may be misplaced around punctuation |
| Source:<b>Hello,</b> from Lilt Target with error:<b>Bonjour</b>, de Lilt Target without error: <b>Bonjour,</b> de Lilt |
Tags may be misplaced around whitespace |
| Source:<b>Hello there </b> Target with error: <b>Bonjour</b> Target without error: <b>Bonjour </b> |
Tags do not wrap identical content in the target |
| Source:<b>The shovel</b> works well Target with error: <b>La pelle fonctionne bien</b> Target without error: <b>La pelle</b> fonctionne bien |
Tags co-located in the source are not co-located in the target |
| Source:<1><2>Hello Target with error: <1>Bonjour<2> Target without error: <1><2>Bonjour |
Missing text between tags |
| Source:<b>Hello</b> Target with error: <b></b>Bonjour Target without error: <b>Bonjour</b> |
Mismatched tags at beginning of sentence |
| Source:<1><2>Hello Target with error: <1>Bonjour<2> Target without error: <1><2>Bonjour |
Mismatched tags at end of sentence |
| Source:Hello, from <b>Lilt</b> Target with error: Bonjour, de <b></b>Lilt Target without error: Bonjour, de <b>Lilt</b> |