We investigate the use of sentence alignment and bilingual term extraction tools for partially automating the study of phraseological inconsistency in the translation process and making that study more time-effective and comprehensive. We describe the compilation of a large corpus of Belgian legal documents (French arrests translated into Dutch). We apply the alignment tool GMA and the statistical extraction tool TermCalc, which contains a by-catch feature allowing for the detection of alternative translations. We obtain a precision of 87% for the sentence alignment and 82% for the highest-ranking phraseology candidates. The recall, determined by comparing the candidates to a manual study of a Master student at Lessius/KULeuven, is 42%, but TermCalc also adds Dutch equivalents. The low recall is due to the precision-oriented mechanism of the tool and the fact that some phraseologies appear in different forms.
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