The Language and Law Working Group (WG2) of COST Action “Language in the Human Machine Era”(LITHME) and The International and EU Law Department of Kozminski University’s Law School invite you to a workshop on law, language, legal translation and new technologies.
The workshop will take place at Kozminski University in Warsaw on 11-12 September 2023. Due to the limited number of onsite places available, registration is mandatory by August 30, 2023. Online participation is not available. LITHME is a COST Action network which aims at facilitating longer term dialogue between linguists and technology developers. WG2 focuses on law and language, especially on conceptual congruence in MT translating international law; use of CAT for multilingual legislative drafting (e.g. EU); multilingual lawmaking and incentives to use MT; the prior rise of English as international legal language; creation and use of terminology; forensic analysis of language evidence; and AI-based ‘robot lawyers’ influencing legal interaction and meaning (cf. LITHME Memorandum of Understanding – Project description).
Programme:
DAY 1
- 10.30 – 11.00 Registration
- 11.00 – 11.10 Welcome and introduction (Agnieszka Doczekalska, Dorka Balogh, Fernando Prieto Ramos, Balázs Gerencsér)
- 11.10 – 11.20 Summary of WG2 activities (Dorka Balogh, Balázs Gerencsér, Fernando Prieto Ramos)
Please note: presentation time is 20 minutes for each presenter, followed by a 10-minute discussion time slot Paper session 1 Chair: Fernando Prieto Ramos
- 11.20 – 11.50 Dorka Balogh: Legal translators’ perception of machine translation and its implications on the methodology of legal translator training
- 11.50 – 12.20 Bochra Kouraichi: Translating legal documents using Chat GPT: For better or worse
- 12.20 – 12.50 Burkhard Schafer: Machine translation in legal practice: Implications of the EU AI Act
- 12.50 – 14.30 LUNCH BREAK
Paper session 2 Chair: Agnieszka Doczekalska
- 14.30 – 15.00 Balázs Gerencsér: Language and law: Challenges in legal education with regard to AI, machine translation and computer-assisted translation tools
- 15.00 – 15.30 Aleksandra Łuczak: Empowering language teachers: How AI transformed the TOLES (Test of Legal English Skills) exam
- 15.30 – 16.00 Matt Riemland: Puerto Rico’s bilingual Spanish-English legal code as a digital resource: Opportunities and challenges for translation technology
- 16.00 – 16.20 COFFEE BREAK
- 16.20 – 16.50 Discussion of future plans and activities of WG2
DAY 2
- 9.20 – 9.30 Opening of day 2
Paper session 3 Chair: Dorka Balogh
- 9.30 – 10.00 Lucja Biel: Anatomy of legal terms: EU multilingual terminology and automatic term extraction
- 10.00 – 10.30 Agnieszka Doczekalska: The use of machine translation tools from a legal perspective
- 10.30 – 11.00 Fernando Prieto Ramos: Assessing the impact of NMT in institutional translation settings
- 11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK
Paper session 4 Chair: Balázs Gerencsér
- 11.30 – 12.00 Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka: What you actually do when you post-edit legal academic texts machine-translated into English?
- 12.00 – 12.30 Vicent Briva-Iglesias: Large language models “ad referendum”: How good are they at machine translation in the legal domain?
- 12.30 – 13.00 Miklós Zorkóczy: Legal text evaluation by legaltech
- 13.00 – 13.20 Conclusions & closing
