Statistical term inventory added to the first pass

2026-09-02

Since HardTrans was launched, every document has been analysed as a whole. Now we have added a statistical check alongside the LLM check. Before the analysis, the system builds a frequency list of terms: which word occurs how many times across the whole batch of files. That list goes to the LLM at the analysis stage, and the model reads it together with the files. The decision on each term is still made once, before translation starts, but now it is pinned more firmly, so the model is far less likely to reach different decisions in different batches.

How we tested it. We took an 800-paragraph slice of an engineering specification and translated it two ways: as before and with the inventory. Quality was scored on our review form: 100 points minus a penalty for every error found. The score went from 82.8 to 87.5. To put that in perspective: two translations of the same file made the same way differ by about 0.6 points, which is the model's natural spread. A gain of 4.7 points is seven times that spread, so it cannot be chance. We also tracked one term separately: it used to be rendered by two different words and drew 47 findings; now it is one word and 17 findings.

Your glossary still takes precedence. If you upload one, the translation comes from the glossary, and the inventory covers only the terms the glossary does not have. Nor does it make a translation error-free: it settles which word is used throughout, not whether that word is the right one.

Translation takes slightly longer: the analysis with the inventory needs more time, about a minute and a half on an 800-paragraph document. Prices are unchanged.