{"id":791866,"date":"2026-02-20T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=791866"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:49:02","slug":"alconost-announces-public-availability-of-the-mqm-tool-api-automating-project-management-for-distributed-manual-translation-quality-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/alconost-announces-public-availability-of-the-mqm-tool-api-automating-project-management-for-distributed-manual-translation-quality-evaluation_791866.html","title":{"rendered":"Alconost Announces Public Availability of the MQM Tool API &#8211; Automating Project Management for Distributed Manual Translation Quality Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">New API enables programmatic project setup, linguist coordination, progress tracking, and structured export \u2014 while keeping all linguistic evaluation fully human-performed<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/upload\/2026\/02\/51f40948ec2f7ad747c937852e53a49f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ALEXANDRIA, Va. &#8211; Feb 20, 2026 &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Alconost today announced the public release of the MQM Tool API, extending its free web-based MQM Tool with automation capabilities for project orchestration, data import, progress tracking, and export of structured translation quality evaluation results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MQM Tool is designed for manual quality evaluation of translations &mdash; including human translations, machine translation (MT) outputs, LLM-generated content, and vendor-delivered localization &mdash; using the industry-standard MQM (Multidimensional Quality Metrics) framework.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While translation assessment inside the MQM Tool remains fully manual and linguist-driven, the new API enables organizations to automate project setup and results management &mdash; making it easier to coordinate distributed reviewers and scale structured translation quality evaluation across teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>API documentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/alconost.mt\/mqm-tool\/api-guide\/\">alconost.mt\/mqm-tool\/api-guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><strong>Automating the Operational Side of Human Evaluation<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MQM Tool API does not automate linguistic judgment. Instead, it automates the administrative and technical processes surrounding evaluation workflows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the API, organizations can:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Create MQM projects programmatically<\/li>\n<li>Upload large batches of source and target segments<\/li>\n<li>Manage distributed linguist assignments<\/li>\n<li>Monitor annotation progress in real time<\/li>\n<li>Export structured evaluation results automatically<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This approach preserves expert-driven quality assessment while eliminating manual project setup and reporting overhead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><strong>Typical Workflow with the MQM Tool API<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> 1. Automated Project Creation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Localization engineers or QA managers create projects via API, configure language pairs and evaluation settings, and upload translation segments (e.g., TSV or JSON). This step can be triggered from a TMS, MT evaluation pipeline, sampling system, or CI\/CD workflow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2. Manual Annotation by Linguists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assigned linguists log into the MQM Tool web interface to review translations and annotate errors according to MQM categories and severity levels. All evaluation remains fully human-performed and structured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> 3. Programmatic Progress Monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Project owners retrieve project status and completion metrics via API, enabling efficient coordination of distributed reviewers across vendors or internal teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> 4. Automated Export and Integration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once evaluation is complete, structured annotation data and reports can be exported via API and integrated into dashboards, vendor scorecards, business intelligence tools, or machine translation benchmarking systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><strong>Designed for Scalable, Human-in-the-Loop Quality Programs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MQM Tool API is particularly suited for:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Enterprise localization teams running ongoing LQA programs<\/li>\n<li>Language service providers managing vendor quality audits<\/li>\n<li>AI and MT research teams benchmarking translation models<\/li>\n<li>Organizations implementing structured quality governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Manual MQM evaluation remains the gold standard for measuring translation quality. With the MQM Tool API, we&#8217;re enabling teams to scale that gold standard efficiently across distributed reviewers and modern localization workflows.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><strong>&mdash; Alexander Murauski, CEO, Alconost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><strong>About the MQM Tool<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MQM Tool is a free web-based platform for structured manual translation quality evaluation based on the MQM framework. It enables systematic error annotation, standardized scoring, and detailed reporting across translation workflows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Learn more and access the API guide: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/alconost.mt\/mqm-tool\/api-guide\/\">alconost.mt\/mqm-tool\/api-guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><strong>About Alconost<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alconost is a language services company specializing in translation, localization, and quality evaluation. With a network of 3,500+ professional linguists covering 100+ language pairs, Alconost serves technology companies, game developers, and enterprises requiring high-quality multilingual content. The company offers on-demand MQM annotation services and custom dataset creation, with methodology aligned to Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT) standards.<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/alconost.mt\/mqm-tool_176030.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alconost MQM Tool Team<\/a><br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=alconost-announces-public-availability-of-the-mqm-tool-api-automating-project-management-for-distributed-manual-translation-quality-evaluation\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alconost.mt\/mqm-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.alconost.mt\/mqm-tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=alconost-announces-public-availability-of-the-mqm-tool-api-automating-project-management-for-distributed-manual-translation-quality-evaluation\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New API enables programmatic project setup, linguist coordination, progress tracking, and structured export \u2014 while keeping all linguistic evaluation fully human-performed ALEXANDRIA, Va. &#8211; Feb 20, 2026 &#8211;&nbsp;Alconost today announced the public release of the MQM Tool API, extending its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/alconost-announces-public-availability-of-the-mqm-tool-api-automating-project-management-for-distributed-manual-translation-quality-evaluation_791866.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401,419,412,423,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Business","category-Media-Communications","category-News-Current-Affairs","category-Professional-Services","category-Technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}