Turkish linguistic quality assessment (LQA)
Native Turkish reviewers score translations from any vendor by error category and severity, against your error typology or an agreed one.
Native Turkish reviewers check translations from your vendors or ours and report every issue by category and severity, with a suggested correction.
Turkish linguistic quality assessment (LQA) for LSPs and enterprises: native Turkish reviewers score translations from any vendor by error category and severity, against an agreed error typology. El Turco runs Turkish LQA on its own work and on work from other vendors, with a documented methodology and a report that logs each issue with its category, severity and a suggested correction.
Turkish is El Turco's home language. LSPs use Turkish LQA to evaluate a new supplier, settle disputed quality for an end client or audit legacy content. Enterprises use it to check the Turkish they already publish before they change anything. The review can follow your own error typology where you have one.
Shared workflow: Translation & localization.
Buying for an LSP or an enterprise team? See For LSPs or For enterprises.
Scope
What does Turkish LQA cover?
- Vendor evaluation
- Onboarding tests and regular samples from a current or new Turkish supplier, scored on the same scale so vendors can be compared side by side.
- Disputed quality
- When an end client rejects a Turkish delivery, a native review from outside the original team shows which complaints are errors and which are preferences.
- Audits of live content
- Websites, help centers, apps and product catalogs already published in Turkish, sampled and scored before a vendor change or a relaunch.
- In-context review
- Native testers check the Turkish build or staging site for truncation, broken suffixes and context errors. Each issue is logged with a screenshot.
- Post-edited MT samples
- Samples of Turkish MTPE output checked against the agreed post-editing level, as a one-off or on top of a running program.
Turkish specifics
What do Turkish reviewers check that general QA misses?
- 01
Suffixes and vowel harmony
Turkish grammar sits in chains of suffixes, and each suffix changes form with vowel harmony. A wrong case or possessive ending still makes a valid word, so spell checkers pass it. Reviewers read for it.
- 02
Placeholders
The suffix after {name} or {count} depends on the value that fills it. Reviewers check each placeholder sentence in context and flag strings that cannot work for every value.
- 03
Formal and informal address
A product written in formal siz can slip into informal sen in a button, an email or a help article. Mixed address is logged against the choice in the style guide.
- 04
Dotted and dotless i
İ, i, I and ı are four different letters. Reviewers check titles, all-caps labels and product names, where a case conversion without the Turkish locale turns istanbul into ISTANBUL instead of İSTANBUL.
- 05
Word order
Turkish puts the verb last and modifiers before the noun. Text that follows English word order reads as translated even when every word is right, and reviewers score it as a fluency issue with a rewrite.
- 06
Characters and formats
Missing ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş and ü, a decimal point where Turkish uses a decimal comma and dates that are not day.month.year are logged as locale errors.
Process
How a Turkish LQA project runs
Turnaround is agreed at scoping, with a 24-hour option for small urgent updates.
Scoping
You send the files or the build with any style guide or glossary. We agree the sample, the error typology with its severity scale and whether the review runs on files or in context.
Reviewer assignment
A native Turkish reviewer for the subject takes the job. Files and builds are handled under NDA and ISO/IEC 27001.
Review and scoring
The reviewer logs each issue with its category, severity, the original text and a suggested correction. What's Wrong? checks on numbers, tags and terms can run alongside the human review.
Report
You receive a scorecard with errors by category and severity, plus the full issue log. An LSP can pass the findings to its vendor or use them with the end client.
Follow-up
Where fixes are made, the reviewer checks them in the next round or the next build.
Who buys Turkish linguistic quality assessment?
Other combinations
Language page
Turkish translation and localization
Our home language: native Turkish linguists for software, game, e-commerce and marketing content, plus Turkish AI training data.
Guide
Regional vendor checklist for LSPs: what to verify before onboarding a Turkish or Arabic subcontractor
A checklist and decision criteria for LSP vendor managers onboarding a Turkish or Arabic regional subcontractor.
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Turkish game localization
In-game text, UI, store pages and LQA in Turkish, by native Turkish linguists who play the genres they translate.
Same language
Turkish e-commerce localization
Product catalogs, marketplace listings, checkout and campaigns in Turkish, by native Turkish linguists with MTPE for volume.
Same language
Turkish software localization
UI strings, help content, release notes and store listings in Turkish, with continuous localization through your TMS or localization platform.
Same language
Turkish AI training data
Turkish speech collection, text annotation, RLHF, moderation and MT training data from native speakers, with gold tasks and agreement reporting.
Same language
Turkish machine translation post-editing
Light or full post-editing of Turkish machine translation by native post-editors, under ISO 18587:2017.
Same service
Arabic linguistic quality assessment
Native Arabic reviewers score translations from any vendor by error category and severity, in Modern Standard Arabic or a named dialect.
FAQ
Turkish linguistic quality assessment FAQ
What is Turkish LQA?
Turkish LQA, or linguistic quality assessment, is a structured review of finished Turkish translations by a native reviewer against an agreed error typology and severity scale. El Turco reviews its own work and work from other vendors and returns a report that logs each issue by category and severity, with the original text and a suggested correction.
Can El Turco review Turkish translated by another vendor?
El Turco reviews Turkish translations from any vendor, including the current supplier of an LSP or an enterprise. LSPs use the review to evaluate a new supplier, check disputed quality for an end client or audit legacy content. Reviewers follow a documented methodology and can score against the LSP's own error typology where one exists.
Which Turkish errors does an LQA look for?
A Turkish LQA looks for meaning errors, terminology and style first, then for the errors Turkish adds: wrong case or possessive suffixes, placeholders that break the sentence, mixed siz and sen, wrong capitals of İ and ı, English word order and missing Turkish characters. Each issue is logged with a category, a severity and a suggested correction.
How long does a Turkish LQA take?
Turnaround is agreed at scoping, with a 24-hour option for small urgent updates. The schedule depends on the sample size, the content type and whether the review runs on files or in a live build. The project manager confirms the delivery date before the review starts, and the report follows the format agreed at scoping.
Is there a free Turkish LQA?
Enterprises can send up to 1,000 words of Turkish content that is already live for a free comparative LQA and receive a scorecard with errors by category and severity. LSPs evaluating El Turco as a Turkish vendor start with a free test translation of up to 300 words, which their own reviewers assess against their quality criteria.
Ready to scope Turkish linguistic quality assessment?
Enterprises can send up to 1,000 words of live Turkish content for a free comparative LQA. LSPs can start with a free 300-word test translation. LQA is quoted after scoping.
A project manager reads your brief, usually the same working day.