The Use of Machine Translation by Law Librarians--A Reply to Yates.

The article presents the author's opinions on an article by professor Sarah Yates which evaluated the free online machine translation service known as Babelfish and the uses it serves for law librarians. Arguments are presented which suggest that the service is the first service freely available on the Internet, that conclusions reached in the article were flawed, that an alternative task oriented evaluation method would be more effective, and that machine translation does have some use for some law librarians.