Tackling Translation: Why E-discovery Tools Struggle with East Asian Languages
East Asian languages are stretching the limits of current e-discovery review tools—and fueling innovation.As e-discovery activity grows in…
August 01, 2017 at 01:42 PM
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East Asian languages are stretching the limits of current e-discovery review tools—and fueling innovation.
As e-discovery activity grows in Asia, attorneys and investigators are struggling to tailor advanced, English-language based e-discovery technology to foreign languages. While any language can present e-discovery tools with challenges, the problems are more acute with East Asian languages, whose structure and diversity are far more complex than those in Western European languages.
The Space Between
So just how are Asian languages' unique characters pushing the bounds of what current e-discovery tools can accomplish? To start, one needs to look no further than the spaces between words—or the lack of them.
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