Le defaut le plus sournois du pipeline etait silencieux : de l'arabe
livre pour une cible persane (meme ecriture, mauvaise langue) passe
inapercu et part chez le lecteur. Desormais chaque lot traduit est
verifie par le detecteur d'ecritures, et chaque segment fautif est
redemande une fois au moteur avec une consigne renforcee (nom de la
langue + lettres specifiques, ex. persan پ چ ژ گ). La seconde tentative
ne remplace la premiere que si elle passe le meme controle.
- services/quality/script_detector.py : extraction d'un controle
script_issue() reutilisable ; detect_arabic_variant signale des
ormais un long texte en ecriture arabe sans aucune lettre specifique
de la langue cible (arabe pur livre pour du persan/ourdou/pachto)
- translators/segments.py : retry_wrong_script() + construction de la
consigne renforcee, sans jamais faire echouer le travail
- Word, Excel, PDF : branchement apres la memoire de traduction et les
validations humaines ; le texte inchange (chiffres, noms propres) ne
declenche jamais de retentative
- 14 tests nouveaux (tests/test_translators/test_script_retry.py)
L1 quality layer — uses a cheap LLM via the OpenAI-compatible API to
validate translation quality. Designed to be the SECOND line of defense
after L0 (script detection, length, pattern).
Architecture:
- sampler.py — picks 5 representative chunks per job (longest first,
skips L0-failed indices, skips too-short or identical pairs)
- llm_judge.py — OpenAI-compatible client, binary verdict per chunk
(accurate / fluent / correct_language / no_leaks), JSON output,
hard timeout, defensive (never raises), cost estimation built in
- pipeline.py — defensive wrapper that integrates both, never breaks
a translation job, always logs a structured event
Integration:
- 5 feature flags in config.py (QUALITY_L1_ENABLED, _LOG_ONLY, etc.)
- QUALITY_L1_LOG_ONLY=true by default: log-only mode, verdict NEVER
blocks or retries a job
- Reuses the chunks extracted by L0 (no double work)
- Passes the set of L0-failed indices so L1 doesn't re-judge them
- Wrapped in try/except so a misconfigured L1 NEVER breaks a job
Default config: deepseek-chat via DeepSeek API
- Cost: ~0.0003 USD per job (5 chunks)
- Speed: typically 1-2s per call, hard ceiling at 8s
- Easy to swap: just set L1_JUDGE_BASE_URL and L1_JUDGE_MODEL
LLM judge is intentionally a SEPARATE model from the translator
(self-evaluation bias mitigation — Meta/Stanford papers 2024-2025).
Tests:
test_sampler.py — 9 tests covering the sampling strategy
test_llm_judge.py — 22 tests covering init, parsing, mocked API,
cost estimation, env factory
test_l1_pipeline.py — 6 tests covering the wrapper
Total new: 37 tests, all pass
Grand total quality+format: 264 tests passing (0 regression)
All 36 new tests + 111 L0 tests + 117 existing translator tests = 264
Phase 1 (observation) for 2 weeks. Then QUALITY_L1_LOG_ONLY=false
to enable auto-retry via the fallback chain.
L0 quality detection layer to catch translation failures BEFORE they
reach users. Pure Python/TypeScript, zero new dependencies, no API calls.
Backend (Python — services/quality/):
- Script detection: 145 langs mapped to 23 scripts (Latin, Cyrillic,
Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, CJK, Hangul, Kana, Devanagari, Bengali, etc.)
- Language confusion detection (e.g. Arabic text for French target)
- Arabic-script variant discrimination (Persian/Urdu/Pashto/Kurdish
confusion — e.g. Persian text returned when Arabic was requested)
- Length sanity check (with numeric/short-source exemptions)
- Prompt leak detection (Translation: / Voici la traduction: / 翻译:)
- Repetition hallucination detection (token + character level)
- File text extraction for .docx/.xlsx/.pptx/.pdf (no translator
changes needed)
- Defensive pipeline that never raises (L0 must NEVER break a job)
Frontend (TypeScript — wordly.art---traduction-de-documents/src/utils/):
- Exact 1:1 mirror of the Python module
- Zero dependencies, works in browser AND Node.js
- Native Unicode regex (\\p{L}/u) and codePoint iteration
- 63 tests using Node's built-in test runner
Integration:
- Feature-flagged: QUALITY_L0_ENABLED=false (default)
- Observation only: logs structured events, never modifies files
- try/except wrapped: impossible to break a translation job
- Lazy imports: only loaded when flag is on
- Zero impact on existing tests / behavior
Tests:
- 111 Python tests covering all paths (config, script, length, leak,
pipeline, file_extractor) — 100% pass
- 63 TypeScript tests (Node --test) — 100% pass
- 174/174 total tests for the L0 layer
Bug fixes in script mapping:
- yi (Yiddish) -> hebrew (was incorrectly mapped to arabic)
- dv (Maldivian) -> thaana (was incorrectly mapped to arabic)
- ja (Japanese) -> hiragana_katakana (distinguishes from Chinese CJK)
Phase 1 (backend) + Phase 2 (frontend) of Track A complete.
Next: Track B1 (Word/Excel format preservation quick wins).
Closes Track A phase 1+2 of the dev plan.
