Preproduction Root Causes
Improper Translation Resource
- improper translation specification
- missing translation specification
- incomplete translation specification
- incorrect translation specification
- translation specification not available during translation
- improper source text
- improper formatting tag
- missing formatting tag
- incorrect formatting tag
- inconsistent formatting tag
- corrupted source text
- text omission in source text
- ungrammatical source text
- incomprehensible source text
- unclear source text
- inconsistent source text
- incorrect source term
- inappropriate use of internal jargon
- SL style guide violation
- incorrect abbreviated form
- missing antecedent or long-distance dependency
- improper formatting tag
- improper termbase (improper terminology resource?)
- no termbase provided
- wrong termbase applied
- SL term missing from termbase
- incorrect TL equivalent in termbase
- improper translation memory
- no appropriate TM provided (where there should have been one)
- wrong TM applied
- translation error in TM match
- improper style guide
- no style guide provided
- wrong style guide applied
- no style sheet provided (for real-time writing/translating/editing style addenda)
- incomplete coverage in style guide
- incorrect guidance in style guide
- no fallback style reference provided (industry style guide or reference dictionary)
Improper Internationalization
- concatenation
- confusable security
- embedded string
- embedded string in code
- embedded string in graphic
- functional
- case folding
- character set support
- fixed collation
- hard-coded keyboard command
- input validation
- missing fallback text
- string matching
- text corruption
- text indexing
- time zone support
- writing system support
- BiDi support
- font rendering engine
- keyboard support
- graphical aspects
- color internationalization
- culture-specific graphic
- hard-coded graphic
- language-dependent logic
- language-specific tool support
- grammar checker
- hyphenator
- spelling checker
- localization support
- address internationalization
- calendar internationalization
- currency internationalization
- date internationalization
- measurement internationalization
- name internationalization
- number internationalization
- shortcut key internationalization
- telephone internationalization
- time internationalization
- paper/envelope size
- resource externalization
- sequence
- text expandability
- user interface internationalization
- complexity
- fixed dialog/UI size
- nondynamic UI
- nonreversible UI
Production Root Causes
Human Translation Error
- translator error (tabula rasa, translation memory, or other multimodal translation environment; use source formatting applied incorrectly in target as an example)
- post-editor error
- editor error
- reviser error
- reviewer error
- proofreader error
- layout/UI editor error