By Ravi Kumar

Watch the video below (in Hindi), then read the summary.

Watch on YouTube (about 12 minutes, in Hindi)

Summary

In this live interaction in Hindi, Ravi Kumar explains how Modlingua built the Modlingua Rubric, an error control mechanism for content writers and translators, and why content needs quality control before it is published.

How the rubric was built

• That summer, 150 interns were doing an online internship with Modlingua, many of them from outside India.
• In about 15 days, 85 interns submitted samples. The team studied their profiles, identified the errors, counted them by category and prepared a rubric from the results. The errors included spelling, punctuation, missing articles and instructions not followed.
• He says that briefing translators and content writers properly on these parameters can raise efficiency two to three times.

Why a control mechanism matters

• Content should not be published just because someone submitted it. It should pass through an editor or a team that checks it first. Without this, errors damage the reputation of the brand, the writer and the publisher.
• Common slips are a missing comma, a spelling mistake, missing punctuation or articles, a wrong fact, extra spaces and broken paragraphs.
• The Modlingua portal works as a knowledge bank on language and translation, with more than 1,000 articles in the form of research, blogs, publications and profiles. If each of 150 interns writes several articles, hundreds more will arrive, so manual checking alone would be very hard for the team. That is why the team applied a data-driven approach to its own data and produced the rubric.

What comes next

He says he will share the rubric, a video and a presentation with the language community, and invites people to use it, share it and send suggestions. He also mentions plans for more videos on the Modlingua YouTube channel, along with books, courses and other programmes in future.

Related reading

Read Modlingua Rubric: what an analysis of 85 intern profiles shows and Grammarly and the Modlingua Rubric.