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Record W2013418168 · doi:10.5539/ijel.v2n3p49

Translation of Good in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

2012· article· en· W2013418168 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mahbube Noura

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of English Linguistics · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTranslation Studies and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCollocation (remote sensing)Computer scienceRendering (computer graphics)Natural language processingLinguisticsArtificial intelligenceMeaning (existential)Translation (biology)ArithmeticMathematicsPsychologyMachine learningPhilosophy

Abstract

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Following Newmark, “often, though not by any means always, translation is rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way that author intended the text” (Newmark, 1988: 5). To accomplish this, finding appropriate and natural equivalents is of prime importance and for the translator; collocation is the most important contextual factor which usually affects translation. So, recognizing whether or not a collocation is familiar or natural is one of the important problems in translation. The Word good because of its broad collocational range, may have different equivalents in different contexts. This paper investigated the different equivalents of the word in the Persian translation of the English novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In order to fulfill the research purpose, all the instances of the word good, by means of AntConc concordancer and their Persian equivalents were extracted. After collecting data, they were classified and analyzed. Analysis of the data showed that translator, nearly in most cases, aimed at using established and typical equivalents. The study finally comes up with the conclusion that accuracy is no doubt an important aim in translation, but it is also important to bear in mind that the use of common receptor-language patterns which are familiar to the target readers plays an important role in keeping open the lines of communication.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.986
Threshold uncertainty score0.298

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.298
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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