arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-21
Reasoning Before Translation: Enhancing Legal Machine Translation with Structured Reasoning
Aixiu An, Michael Jungo, Eloi Eynard, Mark Drenhaus, Andreas Fischer, Jean Hennebert, et al.
Neural machine translation (NMT) in the legal domain is a linguistically and conceptually demanding task, primarily due to the complexity of legal language and the high level of precision it requires. The recent emergence of reasoning-capable language models opens new possibiliti…