Global Law as Translated Text: Mapping Institutional Legal Translation

Automatic Detection of Machine Translated Text and Translation Quality Estimation

We show that it is possible to automatically detect machine translated text at sentence level from monolingual corpora, using text classification methods. We show further that the accuracy with which a learned classifier can detect text as machine translated is strongly correlated with the translation quality of the machine translation system that generated it. Finally, we offer a generic machi...

Legal Realism as Theory of Law

Legal translators and legal translation

Since I am a lawyer, let me start with a disclaimer: nothing I shall say is intended to reflect the views of my employers past or present or any professional association to which I may belong. And please don’t write any letters — unless they are addressed to me. The reason I start in this fashion is that some years ago, when I had just become a notary, I gave an interview to a charming lady fro...

Automatic Detection of Translated Text and its Impact on Machine Translation

We investigate the possibility of automatically detecting whether a piece of text is an original or a translation. On a large parallel English-French corpus where reference information is available, we find that this is possible with around 90% accuracy. We further study the implication this has on Machine Translation performance. After separating our corpus according to translation direction, ...

Translation as Text Transfer – Pragmatic Implications

The aim of this paper is to show how different the production of a translated text is from the one of other texts produced under the constraints of a single context, especially at the pragmatic level. In the textualizing process of translation, the translator is bound to manage the pragmatic divergencies between both source and target context, i.e., he must eventually recreate textuality in all...