AVOIDING TRANSLATION MISTAKES: CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATIONOF LEGAL TEXTS

Automatic Translation Management System for Legal Texts

This paper presents the automatic translation management system known as TransLI developed for machine translation of Court judgments from English to French and from French to English. NLP’s solution addresses our clientele’s volume and time management issues. TransLI’s statistical algorithm has been trained on a large corpus of legal documents as to significantly reduce production time and cos...

Cultural Frame and Translation of Pronominal Adverbs in Legal English

This paper explores the relationship between cultural knowledge and the specific meaning of a pronominal adverb in legal English where Chinese translators need to get the correct translation in their venture into translating the language of law. On the one hand, relying on the relevant legal cultural knowledge functioning as domain-general reference within a community or jurisdiction, tra...

Comparative Evaluation of Online Machine Translation Systems with Legal Texts*

The authors discuss both the proper use of available online machine translation (MT) technologies for law library users and their comparative evaluation of the performance of a number of representative online MT systems in translating legal texts from various languages into English. They evaluated a large-scale corpus of legal texts by means of BLEU/NIST scoring, a de facto standard way of exer...

Avoiding the mistakes of the past.

Avoiding Signifi cant Monetary Policy Mistakes

We deduce properties of optimal monetary policies based on modern theory and standard empirical fi ndings. In light of this analysis, we examine FOMC policy procedures and conclude that they put too much emphasis on short-term economic stabilization and too little emphasis on longer-term price stability. We propose a form of infl ation targeting to address this problem. The views expressed here...