Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has deployed machine translation technology Language Weaver, which automatically translates the text of over 3,000 language combinations.
Language Weaver is owned by RWS, which relaunched the company in 2021, powered Iconic Translation Machines and SDL, both of which RWS acquired in 2020. The company started off as a spin-out from University of Southern California in 2002, productising research for government and enterprise buyers. Its name is a nod to machine translation pioneer Warren Weaver, whose 1949 memorandum ‘Translation’ is said to be the most influential publication in the early days of machine translation.
Clifford Chance deployed Language Weaver in January 2022 and it is globally available. The deployment came to light yesterday (14 June) as part of the announcement that Linklaters has joined ‘app store for legal’ Reynen Court – Clifford Chance, an investor and early adopter of Reynen Court, deployed Language Weaver through the platform.
Paul Greenwood, CIO at Clifford Chance said in a statement welcoming Linklaters: “We can certainly attest to the power of the platform to take time and cost out of innovation activities. For example, we recently deployed a new AI solution – Language Weaver – to our lawyers in twelve days, which is rather impressive if you consider similar projects historically have taken several quarters or longer to get to that stage.”
Greenwood told Legal IT Insider: “The significant benefit of Reynen Court is that as we develop and improve the AI models and dictionaries we keep control of that content.”