How to Use it to Your Best Advantage
Jan 14, 2017
How to Use it to Your Best Advantage
What Do We Mean By
Quality Requirements Vary With Different Content Types
Even So, Consistency Within Each Type is Important
Clients are Demanding Faster Turnaround Times on Greater Varieties of Content
Automating as Much of the Review Process as Possible Helps a Lot!
Cognitive Load on Translators Can Reduce Productivity
Welocalize StyleScorer Can Help!
Why Does It Matter?
M a r k e t i n g B r o c h u r e s
Email Blasts
Technical Manuals
H e l p S y s t e m sLegal Documentation
Corporate Training
Style Can be Formally Defined in a Style Guide That Authors & Translators are Requested to Adhere to
(But it Doesn’t Have to Be)
Style is a Consistency of Voice Across Multiple Documents
Style Tells us Something About the Authors
Style Reflects Patterns of Conscious Grammatical and lexical Choices
Style caters to the Audience’s needs if you get it right
For the Purposes of StyleScorer, the Documents Define the Style, Rather than the Style Defining the Documents – let
the data decide
• A Language-Agnostic Tool for Scoring New Documents Against the Style of Established Documents
• Score Determined by Weighted Linear Combination of Multiple Components
• Average Perplexity
• Document Dissimilarity
• One-Class Support Vector Machine Classifier
• Neural Network Classifier
What is StyleScorer?
How Does StyleScorer Help?
• We Take Two or More Client Documents (TMs, Word Docs, Plain Text, etc.) & Feed Them Into StyleScorer
• Works Best With a Total of 10k or More Segments/Sentences
• We Then Take One or More New Documents & Ask StyleScorer to Rate Them
• Results File is Tab-Delimited With Test Filename & Score Per Line
• Scores are Analog 0-4, With Higher Scores Denoting Better Style Match
What Exactly Does it Do?
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