| # Translation review rubric |
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| Review the canonical claims, source evidence, and target-language surface |
| together. A reviewer must not grade fluency while ignoring whether the caption |
| is true of the evidence. |
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| ## Severity |
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| | Severity | Meaning | Examples | |
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| | Critical | Changes the training target or contradicts evidence | wrong action, object, actor, hand, negation, quantity, direction, state, outcome, or timestamp | |
| | Major | Drops or invents a material distinction | missing tool, source/destination, bimanual coordination, uncertainty, goal, error or recovery | |
| | Minor | Meaning remains usable but expression is degraded | awkward word order, punctuation, nonpreferred terminology without ambiguity | |
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| Any critical error rejects the row. A major error requires correction and |
| re-review. Minor errors are counted by language and construction so systematic |
| problems cannot hide inside an average. |
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| ## Review dimensions |
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| 1. **Evidence fidelity:** every expressed claim is supported by its cited frame, |
| interval, sensor, source label, or human judgment. |
| 2. **Action structure:** predicate, actor, patient, instrument, source, |
| destination, manner, goal, and result remain distinct. |
| 3. **Hands and bodies:** ego versus other person, left/right, visibility, |
| contact, functional role, and bimanual coordination are preserved or marked |
| unknown. |
| 4. **Objects and state:** object identity, attributes, containment, contact, |
| before/after state, and outcome are not merged or hallucinated. |
| 5. **Time and granularity:** point, interval, atomic action, task phase, and |
| whole activity are not treated as synonyms. |
| 6. **Communicative meaning:** observation, directive, question, uncertainty, |
| register, polarity, aspect, modality, and reported speech remain explicit. |
| 7. **Language quality:** terminology, grammar, naturalness, locale, and audience |
| are appropriate without adding unsupported facts. |
| 8. **Provenance:** source record, revision, evidence selectors, producer, |
| method, review state, and loss ledger remain attached. |
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| ## Language-specific checks |
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| ### Simplified Chinese (`zh-Hans`) |
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| - Do not infer aspect particles, classifiers, completedness, or omitted |
| arguments from English. |
| - Check disposal/passive constructions such as 把 and 被 against semantic roles. |
| - Confirm that serial actions remain ordered and separate. |
| - Do not depend on whitespace tokenization. |
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| ### Tagalog (`tl`) |
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| - Review verbal voice and pivot together with `ang`, `ng`, and `sa` phrases. |
| - Do not force English subject–verb–object order onto the target. |
| - Preserve actor versus patient prominence and source/destination roles. |
| - Tag code-switched spans instead of silently normalizing them. |
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| ### Spanish (`es`) |
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| - Separate grammatical gender from physical-world attributes. |
| - Check number, determiner, person, register, and imperative morphology. |
| - Preserve reflexive constructions, clitic roles, and source/destination. |
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| ### Hindi (`hi`, experimental) |
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| - Check case/postpositions, agreement, aspect, word order, and politeness. |
| - Do not infer gender or honorific commitments without evidence. |
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| ### English (`en`) |
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| - Distinguish observation from imperative fragments. |
| - Do not use articles or pronouns to invent definiteness, identity, or gender. |
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| ## Reviewer independence |
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| Model output is a candidate. The producing model cannot approve its own row. |
| High-risk or benchmark rows require two independent bilingual judgments and |
| adjudication of disagreements. Review records bind the source revision, |
| canonical claim set, exact target text, rubric version, and reviewer decision. |
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