1. Localization industry Word Count Standard Andrzej Zydroń CTO XTM Intl
GMX-V
Localization industry Word Count Standard
Thank you Peter, initially the keynote speaker was going to be Yves Champollion. Unfortunately Yves was taken seriously ill last month. My most sincere sympathy goes out to Yves and his family. I wish him a speedy and full recovery. Yves has contributed much to the development of our industry.
Andrzej Zydroń CTO XTM Intl
ASLING TC#39, London 2017

2. GMX Global Information Management Metrics eXchange Tripartite
GMX-V : Volume, published (2.0)
GMX-C : Complexity (not started)
GMX-Q : Quality (not started)
Standard for defining a L10N job
Allows for quantifying job complexity

3. Why GMX-V

4. GMX-V GIM Metrics eXchange – Volume Objectives: Two types of count:
Unambiguous and verifiable definition of word and character counts
A method of exchanging counts within an XML framework
Two types of count:
Verifiable, based on electronic documents
Non-verifiable
Canonical form: XLIFF based
Word boundaries: Unicode TR29
Unicode character encoding
Minimum conformance
Total Character Count
Total Word Count

5. GMX-V GMX-V 1.0 LISA OSCAR Standard Feb 2007
GMX-V 2.0 ETSI LIS Standard Jul 2012
Version 2.0 added some additional clarification plus support for:
Thai
Korean
Chinese
Japanese

6. GMX-V Counts
Verifiable
Non-verifiable

7. Unicode Character Encoding XML Entities must be resolved
GMX-V Canonical Form
XLIFF 1.2
Unicode Character Encoding
XML Entities must be resolved
Unicode TR#29 Words Boundaries
Remove any formatting characters
Words: 4, characters 15, inline elements: 4, punctuation characters 1, white space characters: 3

8. GMX-V Canonical Form

9. GMX-V White Space Characters
Unicode space characters (SPACE_SEPARATOR, LINE_SEPARATOR, or PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR) but not non-breaking space ('\u00A0', '\u2007', '\u202F').
'\u0009', HORIZONTAL TABULATION.
'\u000A', LINE FEED.
'\u000B', VERTICAL TABULATION.
'\u000C', FORM FEED.
'\u000D', CARRIAGE RETURN.
'\u001C', FILE SEPARATOR.
'\u001D', GROUP SEPARATOR.
'\u001E', RECORD SEPARATOR.
'\u001F', UNIT SEPARATOR.
'\u200B', ZERO WIDTH SPACE.

10. GMX-V Punctuation Characters
Basic Latin punctuation characters in the ranges of '\u0021' - '\u002F', '\u003A' - '\u0040', '\u005B' - '\u0060', '\u007B' - '\u007E': 
The division sign ÷ \u00F7 and multiplication sign × \u00D7
The Spanish inverted exclamation and question marks, \u00A1 (¡) and \u00BF (¿).
The Armenian full stop \u0589
The Hebrew colon \u05C3 , maqaf \u05BE and paseq \u05C0
The Arabic semicolon \u061B
General Unicode Punctuation: '\u2000'–'\u+206F'
CJK Symbols and Punctuation: '\u3000' – '\u303F'

11. GMX-V French & Italian Apostrophe
Unicode TR#29 Section 4
l’Objectif: words: 2, characters: 10
English: can’t: words: 1, characters: 5

12. GMX-V CJKT Word Factors
Chinese (all forms): 2.8
Japanese: 3.0
Korean: 3.3
Thai: 6.0

13. GMX-V Conformance
Minimal Conformance:
Word Counts
Character Counts

14. GMX-V Counts
Word Count Categories
Character Count Categories
Auto Text Count Categories
Inline Element Count Categories
Linking Inline Element Count Categories
Text Unit Count
Other Count Categories

15. GMX-V Qualitative Counts
Translatable
Non-translatable
Qualified type

16. GMX-V Counts Word and Character Count Categories: Protected
ExactMatched
LeveragedMatched
RepetitionMatched
FuzzyMatched
AlphanumericOnlyTextUnit
NumericOnlyTextUnit
PunctuationOnlyTextUnit
MeasurementOnlyTextUnit
W-OtherNonTranslatableTextUnit
TW-TranslatableTextUnit

17. GMX-V Counts Auto Text Count Categories: SimpleNumericAutoText
ComplexNumericAutoText
MeasurementAutoText
AlphaNumericAutoText
DateAutoText
TMAutoText
AC-OtherAutoText

18. Other Count Categories: TextUnitCount FileCount PageCount ScreenCount
GMX-V Counts
Other Count Categories:
TextUnitCount
FileCount
PageCount
ScreenCount
OC-OtherCountCategories

19. GMX-V Count Exchange Format
<metrics:metrics version="1.0" source-language="en-GB" tool-name="XYZ Tool"
tool-version="1.23">
<metrics:stage phase="initial" date=" T13:06:52Z">
<metrics:notes
Initial count based on source document.
</metrics:notes>
<metrics:count-group name="non-verifiable">
<metrics:count type="OC-TestingFiles" value="99"/>
<metrics:count type="OC-DTPFiles" value="99"/>
<metrics:count type="ScreenCount" value="99"/>
</metrics:count-group>
<metrics:count-group name="verifiable">
<metrics:count type="TotalWordCount" value="99"/>
<metrics:count type="TotalCharacterCount" value="99"/>
<metrics:count type="TranslatableLinkingInlineCount" value="99"/>
</metrics:stage>
</metrics:metrics>

20. GMX-V Count Exchange
metrics
stage+
notes?
count-group+
count+

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