A

Accreditation
A formal process for evaluating the competence of a translator. This may include elements such as examinations and a review of educational qualifications and professional experience, etc.

Accredited translator
A translator who has received accreditation from a professional association.

Apostille
A simplified and standardized form that is used for the purpose of providing a certification of certain public documents relating to adoption, including notarized documents, that is used in countries that are in compliance with the provisions of the Hague Convention. This simplified form contains standardized numbered fields of certain common and essential types of information, which allows the data to be understood by all participating countries regardless of the official language of the issuing country. The completed apostille form certifies the authenticity of the signature on the documents, the capacity in which the person signing the documents has acted, and identifies the seal and/or stamp that the document bears.

B

Back Translation
Back Translation is the process of translating a document that has already been translated into a foreign language back to the source language - preferably by an independent translator.
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