Machine translation: a possible solution to the law?

Vol.36,No.1(2022)

Pavlína Knap-Dlouhá

https://doi.org/10.5817/BBGN2022-1-4

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.77355

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Abstract
The translation of legal information constitutes a special branch of translation practice, particularly due to the systemic nature of legal terminology, as well as complicated syntax and the use of fixed word associations and language templates. Professional human translators have always been the preferred way to translate legal documents because they have the linguistic expertise, a good understanding of the cultural context and capacity to make decisions when translating. As more and more international companies enter new markets, the need for translating legal texts increases, which often involves large amounts of data that need to be translated quickly. The possibilities and limits of machine translation (MT) are being frequently tested. Since the legal sector traditionally requires high-quality translations, the question arises whether machine translation can also work well in this field?

Keywords:
machine translation; legal translation; DeepL; EUR-Lex; Linguee; CAT Tools; post-editing; Rule-Based Machine Translation; Example-Based Machine Translation; Statistical Machine Translation; Neural Machine Translation

Pages:
35–46
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