Assimilation

Definition

The ultimate purpose of the assimilation task (of which translation forms a part) is to monitor a (relatively) large volume of texts produced by people outside the organization, in (usually) several languages.

Relevant qualities - from part 2

The required translation quality is generally not high, though translation speed and wide coverage are important.

Input-to-output translation speed (2.2.4.1.2/611)

System external characteristics in general (2.2/166)

Fidelity (2.2.1.2.1/179) - important

Style (2.2.1.1.2.2/173) - not a very important factor

Wellformedness (2.2.1.3/186) - not a very important factor

References

Hovy 1999

Notes

This requirement is also related to the "Domain" requirement (1.5.1.2/137): it must be clear to which domains the system can be applied.