New sample: Projects, Jobs, Resources

Creates a new random sample for a given segments scope: A project, a job, a resource etc. Use cases:

Evaluate quality of translations done in a specific project
Evaluate quality of a specific job
Evaluate quality of a translation memory
Evaluate quality of any work done in any project over a period of time

URL

(POST) /resources/segments/randomsample/new

PARAMETERS

The parameters are a JSON object included in the request body:

type	Value must be: Scope	Mandatory, string
scope	The scope object. The sample will be taken from the segments within this scope (project, job, resource...).	Mandatory, object
layout	Optionally specify the segments' fields to include in the results. This is done using a layout JSON object. If not specified, the system will include the most relevant properties (including revision history). This should be just fine in almost all cases.	Optional, object
src	The source locale (language code).	Mandatory, string
trg	The target locale (language code).	Mandatory, string
size	The expected sample size. Default is 10. This must be a value between 1 and 50.	Optional, int?
persist	Optional boolean. Default is false. Only set to true if required. If true, then the results are temporarily saved and assigned a token (see sampletoken in results). You need this token when using the QA workflow API methods in order to create a workflow/jobs for the sample.	Optional, bool?
includeresults	Optional boolean. Default is true. If true then the returned JSON includes the result node. Otherwise only the summary statistics are returned. If you further process results using the sampletoken you may not need the results with this call.	Optional, bool?

You can further fine tune the sample with these additional parameters:

	Filter options
editorInitial	Optional filter on the initial translation done. Values are: Any: No filter. Equivalent to dropping property. MachinePretranslation: The initial translation was a machine translation. This permits to get a sample of post edits. MemoryPretranslation: The initial translation was from a translation memory or a previous document version. This permits to get a sample of post edits. NoPretranslation: The initial translation is not a pretranslation (machine, memory or previous document version) Human: The initial translation was imported from XLIFF or other file formats and marked as human translated by the respective file filter.	Optional, string?
editorCurrent	Optional filter on the current translation. Values are: Any: No filter. Equivalent to dropping property. MachinePretranslation: The current version of the translation is a machine translation and was never post edited by a human. This filter permits to verify that the machine translation is indeed of sufficient quality and did not require correction. MemoryPretranslation: The current version of the translation is memory pretranslation and was never post edited by a human. This filter permits to verify that the leveraged translation is indeed of sufficient quality and did not require correction. NoPretranslation: The current version of the translation is not a pretranslation (and thus either a human translation or an automatic markup fix) Human: The current version of the translation was done by a human.	Optional, string?
dteditfrom	Optional filter on the date of last translation edit. If set, the sample will include translations edited at or after this date only.	Optional, datetime?

	Scoring options
boostWordsMin boostWordsMax	This option lets you express a preferred word count of the segments to retain. The sample will then contain segments with similar word count at a higher probability than segments with less or more words (of the source text - not the translated text!). boostWordsMin: The minimum preferred number of words in the segment. boostWordsMax: The maximum preferred number of words in the segment. Optional. Explanation: If min is 10 and max is 15, the system will sample more segments with words in the range than other segments. Mathematically, the decrease of probability below min and above max is a Gaussian whereby the probability drops to below 0.2 beyond a certain range beyond the limits (between 3 words and twice the range width).	Optional, int? int?

RESULTS

A JSON with these properties:

samples

An array of samples. The present method produces a single sample, so there is always exactly 1 element in the array.

See table below for properties.

int

sampletoken

If assigntoken was set to true, then this field is a token. It is required to push the sample into a QA evaluation workflow (see related API methods).

string?

layout

The layout for the columns included with the samples (see result.rows property below). See method parameter. The layout is explained here: Spreadsheet Layout (Object)

object

Each samples array element has these properties:

segments	Total segments in sample. Note that this number will be less than the expected sample count if there is no or not enough data or the filter is too restrictive.	int
words	Total source text words in sample.	int
src	The source language of the sample	string
trg	The target language of the sample	string

result	Contains all the segments in the sample, information on the resources to which the segments belong as well as worker names. The results node is the same as the one returned by method: resources/segments/view/get Interesting details can be found in this page: Segment Details (Object)	object[]
result.rows	The list of segments. Includes main segment properties as well as the data columns specified in the layout parameter. The format is explained further down in this page.	object[]
result.docs	A dictionary with all documents that appear in the results. This permits to show document names and more information per segment (see the did property of a segment). The format is explained further down in this page.	object
result.users	A dictionary with all users/persons that are referenced by the segments included with the results. A segment references the persons that have last changed a text, a status, a bookmark etc. The format is explained further down in this page.	object

ACCESS RIGHTS

The user must be authorized to access the scope.

EXAMPLE

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