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How to Run a Human Evaluation of MT Output the Right Way
B2B 2026-07-11 15 min

How to Run a Human Evaluation of MT Output the Right Way

A practical guide for translation agency PMs and quality engineers: rater selection, MQM vs Direct Assessment, sample size, inter-annotator agreement, and the mistakes that make your eval meaningless.

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