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Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) is a systematic procedure for judging the quality of a translation by comparing the target text against the source text and explicit quality criteria such as accuracy, appropriateness of register and style, grammatical correctness, and functional adequacy in its communicative context ^[1][2][3]. It treats translation quality as a multidimensional construct that can be described in terms of defined evaluation categories and error types, and it requires assessors to collect, synthesize, and interpret evidence about how the translation fulfills or fails to fulfill these criteria ^[1][2]. Within this perspective, TQA is understood as an organized, model-based assessment of translation products (and, where relevant, processes) using transparent scales, descriptors, and decision procedures, rather than as informal or impressionistic judgment ^[2][3]. The term “Translation Quality Assessment” therefore designates the explicitly framed evaluative activity applied to translations, distinguished from broader discussions of translation quality that do not rely on a structured assessment framework ^[1][2][3].