Why Corpus Metadata Matters
A document corpus can grow quickly. Without clear metadata, useful records become hard to trust. This calculator gives managers a compact view of corpus health. It checks document count, segment volume, term coverage, alignment coverage, duplicate load, error rate, and field completion. These measures help teams decide whether a translation memory is ready for search, training, audit, migration, or publication.
What The Calculator Reviews
The tool focuses on practical signals. Metadata completeness shows how many required fields were filled. Term coverage compares matched TM terms with unique terms. Alignment coverage shows how many segments are paired correctly. Duplicate rate highlights repeated segments that may inflate volume. Error rate warns about records that need cleaning. Lexical diversity shows how varied the language appears across the corpus.
Why Teams Use It
Corpus review is often shared by writers, translators, analysts, archivists, and machine learning teams. Each group needs simple numbers before deeper work begins. A high readiness score suggests the corpus has enough structure for reuse. A low score points to missing fields, weak terminology, poor alignment, or excessive errors. The result does not replace expert review. It gives a fast checkpoint before spending more time.
Improving Corpus Quality
Start by fixing missing metadata fields. Then remove duplicate segments that do not add value. Review unmatched terms and update the term base. Check poorly aligned segments next, because alignment quality strongly affects TM reuse. Finally, inspect errors and unsupported records. After each cleanup step, run the calculator again and compare the exported report with the earlier file.
Best Use Cases
This calculator works well for translation memory audits, document archive checks, content migration planning, and dataset preparation. It also helps when several teams must compare different corpora. The example table shows typical inputs for legal, product, and help center content. Use those rows as a guide, then enter your own values. Export the CSV for spreadsheets. Export the PDF for simple review notes. Keep each report with your project records so later audits have a clear trail.
Reading The Score
Read the score as a planning aid, not as a final judgment. Strong corpora still need sampling, human checks, privacy review, and domain validation before release for reliable operational use today.