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Do the new "chatbots" help translators?
Looking at examples I have encountered of what these new developments, more technically called "large language models (LLMs)," have...
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Mar 16, 20232 min read
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Replacing Japanese with English? Why not?
When many Americans descended on Japan after World War II to temporarily govern the country, many of them found it an attractive place to...
zenner41
Dec 22, 20222 min read
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What We Can Learn from AI Grappling with Language
Although the computer is still far from using natural languages like the naturals (i.e., us Homo sapiens), the stumbles it falls into can...
zenner41
Dec 11, 20223 min read
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Another Take on the Nature of Machine Translation
Machine translation (MT) is evolving steadily these days, based on the way artificial “intelligence” (I have to keep using these scare...
zenner41
Dec 10, 20224 min read
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Machine or Human Translation?
Translation is a craft that obviously goes back a long way in history. The Rosetta Stone, which gave scholars the first clue to how to...
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Nov 25, 20226 min read
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Some Ways Japanese and English Differ
Or: Why Japanese Is Particularly Difficult to Translate Unlike European languages like Spanish or French, Japanese is obviously quite...
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Nov 24, 20224 min read
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