Translation techniques in German-Polish translation of civil mediation terms using AI tools versus human-developed terminology databases - a case study
Translation techniques in German-Polish translation of civil mediation terms using AI tools versus human-developed terminology databases - a case study

Summary/Abstract: In the research paper German civil law terms related to mediation that appear in the Mediationgesetz (Act on Mediation) and the Zivilprozessordnung (Code of Civil Procedure) were analysed and their Polish equivalents identified. The terms analysed were incongruent terms (according to the definition by Šarčević) and legal terms (according to the definition by Morawski). The National Corpus of Polish (Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego) was examined for occurrence of equivalents. Firstly, translation techniques used in formulating the Polish equivalents were classified according to a catalogue of techniques used in the translation of incongruent civil law terms from Polish into English, developed in 2018. The second aim of the research was to compare the translation techniques used in formulation of the equivalents present in human-developed databases versus the equivalents appearing in AI-generated translations. It was found that the AI tools generated equivalents for all the source terms in question, while the human-developed databases did not include equivalents for all of the source terms.

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