Experimental study of the impact of using machine translation systems on the quality of translation of texts in the field of law

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the impact of using machine translation systems (Microsoft Translator and Google Translate) on the quality of translation of texts in the field of law in terms of the number of errors and quality of transferring law terminology. The number of machine translation systems is constantly growing on the translation market, so translators often face a problematic choice, and our research is designed exactly to solve this problem. In the process of conducting our research we formulated the hypotheses, selected the text in the field of law with a big number of law terminology, compiled a glossary of basic legal terminology on the basis of the selected text, selected machine translation systems, developed the procedure of evaluating errors and quality of the law terminology transferring in the translated texts, processed the experimental data and represented the numbers in the form of tables and figures, interpreted the empirical data, formulated conclusions and prospects for further research. The results confirmed hypothesis 2, formulated before the start of the experimental study: the quality of translation of the text in the field of law in terms of content transfer and basic legal terminology transfer turned out to be higher when Google Translate was used. Thus, this machine translation system could be recommended for translators, working in the legal field. However, translators who use this system should be prepared to correct many errors related to the formatting of the translated text, as the free version of the system poorly managed to preserve the formatting of the translated text, which had to be the same as the formatting of the original text.