In order to control costs for our clients, 1-800-Translate recommends the use of machine translation tools to reduce the data set prior to human review. We take advantage of the best machine translation tools on the market to obtain a "gist translation". While machine translation is not suitable for certified translations, it can be a powerful tool to reduce the cost and time involved in reviewing foreign language documents, files, records, email, etc.

Depending on the source language(s) and a host of other variables, machine translations can vary in quality. However, they should at the very least be good enough to determine whether a document is:

• Relevant or privileged
• Potentially relevant or privileged
• Irrelevant

These determinations are crucial to cutting costs in translation, as large portions of foreign language material can typically be culled prior to the more expensive and labor-intensive processes of translating, coding and multilingual review.

The use of machine translation tools is one more way that 1-800-Translate saves our clients time and money.