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The first Young Fraud Lawyers’ Association (YFLA) educational of the 25/26 membership year – An Inquiry into (Anti-)Fraud – sponsored…
Some basic legal terms look very similar in English and the main Romance languages, yet their meanings are quite different.…
We are proud to have partnered with YFLA to make this wonderful event possible. We look forward to catching up…
A House of Lords inquiry into the interpretation and translation services in the courts is underway in the UK. We…
Violeta Demonte es catedrática emérita de Lengua Española en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y académica correspondiente de la Real…
Violeta Demonte is Emeritus Professor of Spanish Language at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and a member of the Spanish…
Ted Chiang, one of the foremost science fiction writers active today – he wrote “Story of Your Life”, the short…
We attended a lecture and conversation on AI and the limits of machine translation by linguist Violeta Demonte with author…
In his article, "The False Promise of ChatGPT," the eminent linguist Noam Chomsky critiques AI technology, emphasizing its limitations in…
Emily M. Bender is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington in the US who specializes in Computational…
In a recent LinkedIn post, Miryam Seers, a lawyer-linguist and Chair of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, highlighted a rather…
Transcription – the rendering of speech into writing – might seem fairly straightforward. We can all conjure the image of…
The purpose of legal transcription is to endow instances of speech –ranging from court proceedings, through corporate meetings, to private…
Sophie Hughes is a literary translator who works chiefly from Spanish into English...
Non-consensual Translation A French client recently got in touch with us with some concern. They reported having taken a look…
The Psychology of Reply-All Reply-All is an email feature that often provokes strong emotions. On the one hand, it lends…
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The stochastic parrot is the invention of linguist Emily Bender – the creator of another memorable fictional animal, the Statistical…
The linguist Emily Bender has recently given another illustration of the way AI cannot grasp meaning.
Alan Turing, one of the pioneer theoreticians of computing, proposed what is now known as the Turing Test: if a…
It is often claimed that Artificial Intelligence is making such spectacularly rapid progress that all its current problems will soon…
