Translation Review With Error Categories
Check a translation for accuracy, fluency and tone.
Added October 15, 2026. Written with AI assistance and checked for clarity and placeholders; not reviewed by a lawyer, accountant, clinician or other professional. How these prompts are made
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Review a translation from [SOURCE_LANGUAGE] to [TARGET_LANGUAGE]. Source text: [SOURCE_TEXT]. Translation: [TRANSLATION]. Purpose and audience (legal notice, marketing, personal letter, manual): [PURPOSE_AUDIENCE]. Go segment by segment and list issues in a table with Segment | Issue type | Severity | Explanation | Suggested revision. Use these issue types: mistranslation, omission, addition, terminology, grammar, fluency, register or tone, formatting, numbers and dates, and cultural fit. Rate severity as minor, major, or critical (changes meaning or could cause harm). Give totals by type and an overall judgement: usable as is, usable after edits, or retranslate. Present a revised version of the full text. Mark any term where you are not sure about the domain usage [VERIFY] and say a professional translator or domain expert should check texts with legal, medical or safety consequences. Add a short summary of patterns across the issues, for example whether most errors are terminology or fluency, so that I know what feedback to give the translator. Include a recommendation on whether a second reviewer is needed and a list of questions to ask the translator about their decisions, in a neutral and respectful tone. Add a worked example of three issues logged from an invented pair of sentences, one with a mistranslated number, one with an omitted condition and one with a register mismatch, showing issue type, severity, explanation and suggested revision. Label it an illustration. Add a severity scoring method that converts counts into a quality score per thousand words, with weights for minor, major and critical that I can edit, and a threshold for accept, revise or retranslate. Provide a feedback note for the translator in a neutral tone, a reviewer checklist for checks that are often skipped (numbers, dates, units, names, negation, headings), and a rule that safety, legal or medical texts are reviewed by a qualified person in the field.
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