Institution

Name

Applicable Field

Key Features

Relevant Parameters

The Standardization Administration of China (SAC)

GB/T-19682-2005

Translation service

Error rate formula, flexible weighting rates.

Fidelity to the source text, terminology consistency, fluency; proper nouns, measurement units, symbols, abbreviations, translation arrangement, semantic errors, omitted segments, mistranslations…

European Committee for Standardization (CEN)

EN15038

Certified translation services, specifically for European nations

Specific requirements for translators.

Terminology, grammar (including syntax, spelling, punctuation, orthography, diacritics), vocabulary, style, localization...

The Translation Bureau (Canada)

SICAL

Supports official large-scale translations

Error deduction; error categorization

Translation, language, terminology, (Unspecified details)

Localization Industry Standard Association (LISA)

LISA QA

Applicable to broader field of translation, localization.

Error deduction; error categorization

Accuracy, mistranslation, terminology, style, consistency, layout, font, images, figure numbering, descriptions, indexing, etc.

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

SAE J 2450

Automotive industry, medical, industrial, and other terminology-intensive field; also applicable to machine translation

Error deduction; error categorization

Terminology, semantics, omissions, structural, spelling, punctuation, and other errors…