Resumen de The Use of Machine Translation by Law Librarians - A Reply to Yates

Harold Somers

• A recent article in Law Library Journal described an evaluation of the Babelfish online machine translation service in translating legal information. Professor Somers suggests some respects in which the evaluation and, particularly, the conclusion of the article were flawed, proposes an alternative task-oriented evaluation method, and concludes that machine translation does have some use for law librarians.