Metric: The developer should provide a description of the theory and method of translation used by the system. -- Method: The developer should provide white-papers and supporting documentation. -- Measurement: Confirmation of method by study of documentation.
Metric: Size of parallel corpus -- Method: Developer report of parallel corpus size -- Measurement: Size can be reported in terms of bytes, sentence pairs or words per language.
Metric: Accessibility of example corpus -- Method: Specification by developer of corpus accessibility -- Measurement: Yes or no: Corpus is accessible
Metric: Form of examples -- Method: Specification by developer of example formats -- Measurement: Confirmation of example format specifications
Metric: Number of examples -- Method: Counting of examples -- Measurement: Number of examples in corpus
Metric: Source language matching technique -- Method: Specification of source language matching technique and parameters -- Measurement: Yes or no: is specification provided. Also, can use test suite to test coverage and flexiblity of source language technique.
Metric: Ease of extending / adding examples -- Method: Test corpus -- Measurement: Percentage test items that can be added.
Somers, 2000
See also ease of update in section 2.2.5.2.4