Commissioning and running a translation

This branch covers organising and delivering medical translation work. It divides the work by project responsibility: budgeting, hiring, workflow, revision, quality assurance, standards, tools and organisational arrangements. The requirements of specialised text types and preparation of source text for translation belong to neighbouring branches.

• Budgeting a multilingual document set — translation volume, quality control, timing, the cost of delay and allocation of limited resources
• Finding and hiring a translator — project scope, agency or individual, search routes, qualifications and a test assignment
• Running a medical translation project — document-specific workflows, queries, terminology authority, review responsibilities and turnaround
• Agreeing the depth of translation revision — the revision task, quality criteria, parameters and levels of intervention
• Assuring the quality of a medical translation — translator qualifications, bilingual revision, final checks, process controls and commissioning-side review
• What a translation standard and a certificate cover — process standards, text quality, ISO 17100, the agreed service and quality management standards
• Software for translation work — computer-assisted translation, translation memory, terminology, tool selection, costs, voice recognition and automated checks
• Machine translation and AI in the language chain — capabilities, prompts, suitability, post-editing, productivity, terminology, review and confidentiality
• Building and running an in-house language function — scope, business value, establishment, staffing, funding and approved external suppliers
• Working an agency translation project as a freelancer — requirements, reference material, queries, review, delivery, feedback and negotiation