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Don't settle for inferior translation quality for your #darkweb investigations 🐸 "With the ts it's somehow the other way around, the cart lags but the toad doesn't, interesting." Learn more about Searchlight's AI-powered translation capabilities today: #Noordinarytranslation #AIAdvancements #darkwebinvestigtion #darkwebmonitoring

Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of Measurement Instruments: A Practical Guideline for Novice Researchers https://lnkd.in/e4XKtXfs

'Artificial intelligence is playing a larger role in government services, from improving infrastructure to detecting wildfires, but “this technology is only as good as the information that it's being trained on,” said Marcie A. Chin, language access product delivery manager at U.S. Digital Response.' Together with the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development, and support from Google.org, we released large language model training materials to help government agencies help improve language access for resources and services. Read more about this resource in Route Fifty: https://lnkd.in/eYDBJVvu

Such a fascinating insight. It's just 2024 - and yet already over half the known internet is machine translations! Now, additional content is being machine generated straight from the LLM. What proportion of incremental content being added on the the internet is human and what proportion isn't? How much is generic, and how much isn't? I'd bet the number is way more than 60%. This blows my mind!! Also, love it when someone ends up quantifying a problem like this. Answers are drab and easy. How the problem is framed is priceless. It is always the Questions that are invaluable. Answers? Meh. https://lnkd.in/dSRTppw2

The very first four papers (on critical terminological questions related to the concept of 'hallucination', on the performance of DeepL in translating invented languages, on implicit communication in political speech and on processing information structure and pragmatics) of the international peer-reviewed and Diamond Open Access journal "AI-Linguistica. Linguistic Studies on AI-Generated Texts and Discourses" are out! 👉 Check them out on the journal's website: https://lnkd.in/dWpxzrFm. Thanks to the first contributors for their interesting research and for choosing to publish their work in AI-Linguistica. Thank you also to the (anonymous) reviewers for their insightful comments. Please spread the word to people who might be interested in this research. And submit a paper if you work on generated texts and discourses in all areas of linguistics. 🙏

To protect science, we must use LLMs as zero-shot translators https://lnkd.in/e2jsdWRe https://lnkd.in/en587Tyh db

Fund: Fun Fact: Reflection/Mirrors: Hello Linguist List readers, In honor of our Fund Drive, we at Linguist List are pleased to present Fun Facts that inspire reflection and, of course, have linguistic intrigue. This week, we're delving into the rich linguistic landscape of Hawaiian, or ōlelo Hawaiʻi, where the concept of rain is expressed through an array of over 200 words. In Hawaiian, rain is not merely a singular concept but a nuanced spectrum of experiences captured through distinct terms: Ua: Serving as a general term

Edgar Morin (Hidri, 2015) has spoken of the migration of concepts (approach, analysis tool, etc.) in view of the entangled boundaries of different fields of science. Thus, Mathilde Desaegher (1999) shows that the proximity image-language, its eternal partnership, the ecosystem created as a self-generating process has enabled the integration of the language model into the analysis of the image concept. That is an analysis from the perspective of the constitution of a complex network of signs. However this eternal partnership does not consist solely of the image-language relationship, otherwise we'd lose the essence of transformation. What builds the ecosystem we're about to describe as a auto-eco-(re)organizing system is the thought-image-language relationship.

Thanks to the (always very insightful) newsletter by Alice Orrù about inclusive language and representation (in Italian), I discover the British campaign "I Am Not A Typo" asking the Tech Giants to update their dictionaries so everyone’s names are treated equally. "Names are the most important words in our lives – part of our identity. But we have noticed that while all names are created equal, the technology that shapes our world does not treat them like that. Some are more equal than others." Indeed many names, especially those originally African and Asian, are often underlined as spelling errors, if not changed into other words, by the automatic correctors and spell checking functions. Language plays a fundamental role in society and its change, as do the technologies we use every day, for this reason campaigns like this are crucial! #iamnotatypo https://lnkd.in/djSVDs6d

How is language evolving in the digital age? What factors are propelling changes in languages? Here's a detailed guide: https://buff.ly/3AxdnTv #DayTranslations #LanguageEvolution