User characteristics

Definition

This covers the characteristics of users in three senses: the end user who will interact with the machine translation system; the end user of the final product of the translation process which may include for example, post-editing; the organisation deploying the machine translation system

Relevant qualities - from part 2

Stakeholders

Translators

Post-editors

Translation consumers

Translation managers

Higher level management

References

Notes

Users here are human users. When an MT system is a component of a larger system, for example an information retrieval system, other pieces of software may be considered to be users of MT output. Which parts of the quality model will apply in the case of a software user is inherently linked to the overall application in question. Software as user is not explicitly considered in the current version of this taxonomy.