Elisabeth
Hippe-Heisler

Machine Translation & AI

Are you currently leveraging AI, but are concerned about accuracy?

I help businesses mitigate risk by auditing and refining machine-translated drafts, ensuring they meet the rigorous standards for accuracy required on the German market.

AI tools do not understand context in the same way humans do. Instead, they rely on probabilistic pattern recognition, which can capture much of the surrounding meaning and yet still miss important nuances. This means the resulting output might read fluently and appear plausible on the surface, but an expert linguistic audit — such as I provide — will reveal critical flaws:

• !Literalism & Terminology Failures: AI regularly struggles with highly specialised legal or technical jargon, leading to mistranslations.
• !Structural Reversals: It is not uncommon for machine tools to inadvertently reverse the meaning of a sentence.
• !Hallucinations: AI can entirely fabricate content or terms that look authentic, but are factually incorrect.

For the above reasons, any AI output intended for official, legal, or publication purposes requires rigorous review and quality assurance to guarantee contextual appropriateness, nuance, and absolute accuracy.