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AI-Assisted Translation for Regulatory Documents

Translation & Language Access

What it collects

Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Source-language regulatory documents submitted to the Translation Group for translation. These are organizational documents, not personal data.
Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Training data consisting of past translation pairs, broken out by sentence and at least six months old, used to continually improve the model's regulatory translation quality.
Run by
Canada Energy Regulator (CER)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Accountable organization

What it is for

Translation & Language Access

TradooIT is a neural machine translation system used by the Canada Energy Regulator's Translation Group to translate regulatory documents more accurately and quickly. The system is trained on past translation data from the organization's regulatory context. It is used by Government of Canada employees, not by the public, and the use of AI assistance is disclosed to users.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Source-language regulatory documents submitted to the Translation Group for translation. These are organizational documents, not personal data.
Operational data
Anonymized data
  • Training data consisting of past translation pairs, broken out by sentence and at least six months old, used to continually improve the model's regulatory translation quality.

Processing

Language Models
  • Neural machine translation model, regularly retrained and improved using contextual organizational translation data to handle the specialized vocabulary of Canadian energy regulation.

What it does

Understanding (Semantic AI)
Human decides
  • The system understands and maps meaning across languages, drawing on regulatory domain context to produce translation output. Human translators in the Translation Group review and make final decisions on translated content.
Creating (Generative AI)
Human decides
  • The system generates new translated text from source-language regulatory documents. The generated translation is reviewed by human translators before use.

Outputs

Generated content
Anonymized data
  • Translated regulatory text produced by the neural translation model. Output is reviewed by Translation Group employees before being finalized. No personal information is included in the output.

Run by

Canada Energy Regulator (CER)
  • Federal regulator responsible for energy infrastructure in Canada; deploys TradooIT within its Translation Group to support regulatory document translation.

Canada AI Register — TradooIT

Built by

TradooIT
  • The vendor that developed and supplies the TradooIT neural automated translation software used by the Canada Energy Regulator.

Canada AI Register — TradooIT

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Translation outputs are available to Canada Energy Regulator employees (Government of Canada employees in the Translation Group) who use the system in their work.

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

  • Right to Be Informed of AI UseAI use is disclosed to users of the TradooIT system. Government of Canada employees using the system are informed that AI-assisted translation is in use.
  • Right to Algorithmic TransparencyThe Government of Canada publishes information about this AI system in its public AI and algorithmic systems register, including its purpose, data sources, and the vendor responsible.

Risks and safeguards

No risks or safeguards have been published for this system yet.