Kolena AI Agent
Document Translation with Audit Review
Translate a full business, legal, or real-estate document into your target language and audit it in one pass - blind back-translation, terminology-consistency, numeric/date/entity fidelity, and completeness checks, with per-segment confidence and human-review routing so a reviewer knows exactly what to check.
Impact
A foreign-language document becomes a structured, audited translation in minutes - with a blind back-translation, terminology, fidelity, and completeness pass on every document - so a bilingual reviewer verifies only the flagged segments instead of translating or re-reading the whole document, and no high-stakes document is trusted on an unaudited machine translation
per document
Volume fit
Works best for
teams that regularly receive foreign-language documents and need a fast, audited first-pass translation with a clear read on where a human must verify
Too small for
a one-off translation of a short document where a professional human translation is commissioned directly
Typical inputs
Documents
- Foreign-language business, legal, or real-estate document (lease, purchase and sale agreement, loan document, contract, corporate record, official notice)
- Bilingual or mixed-language document
- Scanned or photographed source document
Systems
- Google Drive
- SharePoint
- Document management system
Output
A complete target-language translation that preserves the document's structure and defined terms, plus an audit package - an aligned segment-by-segment bilingual table, a blind back-translation compared to the source, a terminology-consistency check, a numeric/date/entity fidelity check, a completeness check, per-segment confidence with a human-review flag, and an overall confidence and routing disposition - every value traceable to the source or the translation
Delivered to
- Deal or matter folder
- Document review / abstraction workflow
- Human-review or certified-translation queue
- Document management system
What it extracts
· 12 fields
- Form
Translation Summary
A one-look roll-up - source and target language, document type, segment count, overall confidence, and a review recommendation - so a reviewer can orient before reading the detail.
- Text
Source Language
The detected primary language of the source (with dialect/region and any secondary or mixed-language passages noted), which anchors the translation and the back-translation.
- Text
Full Translation
The complete, publication-ready translation into the target language, preserving structure, headings, clause hierarchy, tables, and defined terms, with numbers, dates, and proper names carried across exactly.
- Table
Segment-by-Segment Translation
An aligned bilingual table - one row per source segment with its type, exact source text, and translation - the audit backbone every downstream check runs against.
- Table
Blind Back-Translation
A blind round-trip translation of the output back into the source language without seeing the original, so any meaning that shifted, dropped, or was added becomes visible (ignores the source file by design).
- Table
Back-Translation Comparison
A segment-by-segment comparison of the blind back-translation against the true source, flagging substantive divergence - changed numbers, dates, parties, obligations, negations, or dropped clauses - Divergent-first.
- Table
Terminology Consistency Check
A check that each defined term, party role, and recurring term of art renders the same way throughout - the terminology-management discipline required by ISO 17100 - with inconsistent terms surfaced first.
- Table
Numeric, Date and Entity Fidelity
A value-by-value check that every number, amount, percentage, date, party name, address, and reference carried across exactly, flagging changed, dropped, or riskily reformatted values.
- Table
Completeness Check
A structural reconciliation confirming no section, clause, table, caption, footnote, schedule, or signature block was omitted, partially translated, or added - a frequent, serious failure on long documents.
- Table
Segment Confidence and Review Routing
Per-segment confidence (High/Medium/Low) with a Needs-Human-Review flag and reason, so a reviewer checks only the segments the audit found weak instead of re-reading everything.
- Classification
Translation Confidence
An overall confidence rating for the translation (High / Medium / Low / Insufficient basis), synthesizing the back-translation, terminology, fidelity, completeness, and segment-level findings.
- Classification
Review Disposition
The final routing call - Ready to use, Needs targeted human review, Needs full re-translation, or Escalate for a source-quality issue - that tells the operations team what to do next.
Prerequisites
- The target language for the translation (English unless otherwise specified)
- Any preferred glossary or term base for recurring defined terms and party names
- A bilingual reviewer available for the segments the agent routes for human review
Human review
A bilingual reviewer or the document owner checks the segments the agent flagged for human review - divergent back-translations, changed or dropped numbers/dates/parties, inconsistent key terms, and omissions - and accepts the rest, rather than re-reading the whole document. High-stakes or certified use still routes to a qualified human linguist.
Where it fits
Cross-language document operations
A foreign-language document arrives for a transaction, portfolio, or matter - a lease, purchase and sale agreement, loan document, contract, or official notice - by email, Drive folder, or upload, and must be understood in the working language before the deal or review can proceed
This step
Full-document translation with a fidelity audit and human-review routing
After
Who uses it
Grounded in
- ISO 17100:2015 - Translation services - Requirements for translation servicesverified as of 2026-07-22
- ISO 18587 - Post-editing of machine translation outputverified as of 2026-07-22
- Back-translation (round-trip) verification - established translation-QA practiceverified as of 2026-07-22
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