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Translation in cross-border disputes does more than make evidence readable. It shapes what a court or tribunal recognises as “the...
The EU’s new digital regulations set out obligations that affect how technology companies operating in the Union handle language, documentation,...
New findings from the WMT Chat Translation Shared Task show how AI performs in real-time, bilingual customer-support chats. The evaluation...
A recent peer-reviewed study has offered one of the most rigorous comparisons to date between state-of-the-art machine translation and LLM...
Joshua Yuvaraj argues that generative AI’s persistent hallucinations and opacity make its outputs inherently unreliable for legal work. His review...
A recent study by Tencent AI Lab found that GPT-4 rivals Google Translate and DeepL on high-resource European languages, but...
A single mistranslated phrase in EU legislation changed who could receive millions in State aid in Romania. Years later, the...
On September 30, we celebrate translation not only as a profession, but as a tradition as old as writing itself....
A translation of Archbishop Georgios’s Easter message by the Turkish News Agency Cyprus (TAK) was deemed misleading and “conducive to...
Mistranslation can derail trials, mislead the public, or deny justice. This article highlights three real-world cases where legal translation errors...
A shibboleth is a test to detect outsiders who lack the necessary knowledge. Legal translation is rife with them.
A House of Lords inquiry into the interpretation and translation services in the courts is underway in the UK. We...
The film has also sparked intense controversy and criticism, particularly in Mexico, due to what many Mexicans see as its...
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...
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