Why does legal translation take more than the push of a button?

Can skilled professional translators be replaced by a piece of software? Machine translation output appears fluent and error-free at first sight, but the devil is in the details.

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Eurac Research Blogs
Published
2026-10-15
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https://doi.org/10.57708/bbddflthbq8gkcabl8z-l4g
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Translation Studies and Practices
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Why does legal translation take more than the push of a button?

Katarina Rohsmann
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Translation Studies and Practices
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Why does legal translation take more than the push of a button?

Katarina Rohsmann
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Abstract

Can skilled professional translators be replaced by a piece of software? Machine translation output appears fluent and error-free at first sight, but the devil is in the details.

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