Roles in TQE
A clear distinction should be made between professional translators and other personnel involved in the language-service industry. Relevant to TQE are:
- Project managers, who oversee the translation, the translation evaluation, or both.
- Technicians, who set up and run the mechanics of a TQE, creating and maintaining tools that are critical to all parts of the process.
- Evaluators, who examine the source and target texts to identify errors relative to the specifications and produce annotation metadata.
One person may fill more than one of these roles, but it is critical that an evaluator have at least the competence of a professional translator for the languages, subject field, and type of text in question. Non-translators might fill the roles of technician or project manager.