Comment on ITS 2.0 specification WD - "conformance" Issue Type

I would like to propose the addition of "conformance" to Appendix C 
(Values for the Localization Quality Issue Type).
The values in the appendix cover specific and discrete classes of error 
(putting "other" and "unintelligible" to one side). When you start to 
apply new text classification based quality checking methods to text 
several error classes may combine in subtle ways to produce a measure of 
quality that is "aggregate" across error types but none-the-less 
accurately indicative that something is wrong. For example, a target 
sentence may be deemed to have poor conformance when measured against a 
corpus of domain relevant reference translations. A score would reflect 
this poor conformance but the underlying errors within the sentence could 
be a mixture of grammar, spelling, style and/or terminology. In such 
instances you may not need to explicitly enumerate all of the combining 
errors and the extent of their contribution to the score, but just 
classify it under and umbrella term of "conformance".
The proposed information for the "conformance" value would be as follows:
Value
conformance
Description
The content is deemed to have a level of conformance to a reference 
corpus. Reflects the degree to which the text conforms to a reference 
corpus given an algorithm which combines several classes of error type to 
produce an aggregate rating. Higher values reflect poorer conformance.
Example
"The harbour connected which to printer is busy or configared not 
properly." In a system which uses classification techniques this would be 
deemed to have poor conformance. The poor conformance is a function of the 
combined incorrect terminology, wrong spelling and bad grammar.
Scope
S or T
Notes
Reflects the degree to which the text conforms to a reference corpus given 
an algorithm which combines several classes of error type to produce an 
aggregate rating. Higher values reflect poorer conformance.
Phil Ritchie

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