Technology, Workflow, Quality Assurance and Review
What the domain tests
Technology, Workflow, Quality Assurance and Review tests whether you can run a legal translation project without losing accuracy or security. ICLTE covers CAT tools, terminology management, machine translation, version control, review and error severity. The exam favours controlled processes over tool-name knowledge.
Core rules
- Segment and tag carefully. Legal texts contain cross-references, defined terms, numbering and formatting that must survive export.
- Do not put client material into public machine translation or cloud tools without contractual permission and security review.
- Maintain a termbase and style guide. Lock approved terms and record who approved them.
- QA checks should cover accuracy, completeness, terminology, register, numbers, dates, names, cross-references and formatting. A green QA tool does not prove legal accuracy.
- Use four-eyes review for high-risk documents. Classify errors by severity: critical meaning errors, major terminology or omission errors, minor style issues.
Worked example
An MT engine renders The Supplier shall not be liable for any indirect loss as The Supplier is not responsible for any loss. Reasoning: the post-editor must restore the negative obligation scope and the qualifier indirect. Is not responsible weakens the contractual limitation; dropping indirect expands it to all loss. Check the termbase for liable and indirect loss, confirm the modal, and run a QA query for omitted qualifiers before delivery.
Traps
Accepting 100% TM matches without context review. Overwriting tracked changes. Letting MT output set the register. Missing a broken cross-reference after conversion. Treating a spell-check as review. Failing to lock the final version.