Ad Hoc Translation for Non-English Language Text

Machine translation can help your team identify documents that may require further review. 

Everlaw offers two ways to translate non-English text using machine translation: our standard, ad hoc non-English translation functionality and Everlaw AI’s stored batch translation tool — Everlaw Translate. This article focuses on our standard ad hoc functionality, which allows users to translate text on an in-the-moment basis for individual documents.

In this article we’ll show you how to translate individual documents from the review window.

Fun fact

Everlaw's translation search capability performs best with documents that contain long sections of contiguous text that are in the same language. For example, if you have a document that is nearly completely in English with a handful of Spanish words interspersed throughout, the system will have a more difficult time picking up on the non-English content than if the document had entire paragraphs in Spanish.

Requirements

All project members can use this feature if it’s enabled.

Translate a portion of text

To translate a portion of text:

  1. Open the document in the review window.
  2. Open the Text view.
  3. Open the Language tab.

    Note

    If the Language tab is not visible, select Edit on the bottom right of the review panel. Then drag or select the Languages tab to add it to your panel. Select Edit again to exit edit mode.

  4. Use your cursor to select the text you would like to translate.
  5. Select English Translation.
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Translate the entire document

To auto translate all non-English text in a document:

  1. Open the document in the review window.
  2. Open the Text view of the document.
  3. Open the Language tab.

    Note

    If the Language tab is not visible, select Edit on the bottom right of the review panel. Then drag or click the Languages tab to add it to your panel. Select Edit again to exit edit mode.

  4. Select English translation to replace all of the detected non-English text with its translation.
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  5. To translate back to the original text, select Original text.

Text in expected languages is highlighted at the top of the Language panel, along with the number of passages containing each non-English language. You can select the left and right arrows to jump to different non-English passages.

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