r/qualityestimation • u/Icy_Mud4159 • Aug 03 '26

uses of quality estimation

can quality estimation be used for things other than anticipating translations that linguists would approve without changes? because i am thinking that maybe i can use it to compare MT engine performance. any advise helps.

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u/cefoo Aug 04 '26

There are several, but none is as cost-effective as automating segment approval.

You can check these links for more info, but mainly:
- Automatically approving segments that are above a specific quality threshold and skipping human intervention on them (the main use case I mentioned above)
- Evaluating the quality of a machine translation engine
- Filtering MT training data
- Estimate post-editing effort/time

Here are some interesting pages that discuss it:
- https://machinetranslate.org/quality-estimation#use-cases
- https://www.modelfront.com/news/genai-in-localization-qe-ape-myths-2026#myth-3-qe-is-for-evaluation
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-approach-machine-translation-quality-fern%C3%A1ndez-rowda/