Legal professionals frequently use free NMT with high self-reported satisfaction yet perform little to no post-editing, so satisfaction is not correlated with quality¶
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q2 i? Legal professionals regularly use freely available NMT with high self-reported satisfaction, yet a substantial proportion perform little to no post-editing, indicating user satisfaction is not necessarily correlated with translation quality. → Łucja Biel 2026
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Łucja Biel 2026¶
Łucja Biel. (2026). AI Literacy for Legal Translation: Developing Digital Resilience. University of Warsaw. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04641 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.04641
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The chapter synthesises survey findings it attributes to Setkowicz-Ryszka (2024) in Poland, Kourouni and O'Shea (2025) in Greece, and Girard, Lehoux-Jobin, and Pomerleau (2026) in Canada, reporting that "legal professionals regularly use freely available NMT with high self-reported satisfaction, yet a substantial proportion perform little to no post-editing".
"legal professionals regularly use freely available NMT with high self-reported satisfaction, yet a substantial proportion perform little to no post-editing"
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Related Claims¶
- NMT uptake in institutional legal translation is high (ca. 80%) but much lower among UK-based freelance translators (41%) — related
- Students in a deliberate practice group reported satisfaction with the learning process on a survey given only to that group — related
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Legal professionals frequently use free NMT with high self-reported satisfaction yet perform little to no post-editing, so satisfaction is not correlated with quality |
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Legal professionals frequently use free NMT with high self-reported satisfaction yet perform little to no post-editing, so satisfaction is not correlated with quality |
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