The Problems of Assessing the Quality of Written Translation

Abstract

The article is devoted to an overview of various approaches to the development of quality criteria for assessing translation. The article examines various approaches to this issue, including subjective and objective systems, where the translator, and the second on precise measures, such as the number of errors in the translated text, base the first approach on assessing the linguistic decisions made. The approach to assessing the quality of translation is considered from various positions regarding the process itself and demonstrates how they change depending on who evaluates the result: the customer, the translator or the final recipient of the translated text.