This paper introduces a website called Minna no Hon’yaku (MNH, “Translation for All”), which hosts online volunteer translators. Its core features are (1) a set of translation aid tools, (2) high quality, comprehensive language resources, and (3) the legal sharing of translations. As of May 2010, there are about 1200 users and 4 groups registered to MNH. The groups using it include such major N...

This paper explores implications of language translation in accounting. It draws on research on translation in other disciplines, and on insights from applied linguistics. It examines practical problems and solutions explored in other disciplines that we deem relevant to accounting. The paper also examines ideological, cultural, legal and political consequences of translation. We find that the ...

The legal knowledge base resulting from the LOIS (Lexical Ontologies for legal Information Sharing) project consists of legal WordNets in six languages (Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Czech, English). Its architecture is based on the EuroWordNet (EWN) framework (Vossen et al, 1997). Using the EWN framework assures compatibility of the LOIS WordNets with EWN, allowing them to function as an...

In this paper we investigate the use of character-level translation models to support the translation from and to underresourced languages and textual domains via closely related pivot languages. Our experiments show that these low-level models can be successful even with tiny amounts of training data. We test the approach on movie subtitles for three language pairs and legal texts for another ...

E-law module is the web application which works mainly as the set of information retrieval and extraction tools dedicated for the lawyers. E-law module consists of following tools: (1) document search engine; (2) context oriented search engine plugin; (3) legal phrase oriented machine translation; (4) document metatagger; (5) verdict finder. Machine translation, document meta-tagger and verdict...

New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting Junfeng Zhao, Defeng Li Victoria Lai Cheng Lei (2023)Springer. 264pp

We have developed a web site called Minna no Hon’yaku (“Translation for Everyone by Everyone”), which hosts online volunteer translators. Its core features are (1) a blog-like look and feel; (2) the legal sharing of translations; (3) high quality, comprehensive language resources; and (4) the translation aid editor QRedit. Translators who use QRedit daily reported an up to 30 per cent reduction...