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Record W2550803742 · doi:10.33137/q.i..v23i1.9308

A Translator's View of Gadda's Language: The 'Pasticciaccio'

2002· article· en· W2550803742 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Robert de Lucca

Bibliographic record

VenueQuaderni d italianistica · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLinguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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back issues of reviews, only two of Gadda's works have appeared in English: That Au^ful Mess on Via Merulana, William Weaver's 1965 version O Querpasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (which appeared in Italy in 1957), and, in 1968, Acquainted with Grief (Weaver's tide for the 1963 L^cognit^ione del dolore). Leaving aside other considerations concerning the English reception of Gadda's work, my claim, shared by many other Gadda schol- ars, is that Weaver's version of the Pasticciaccio is inadequate. This study demonstrates some aspects of his version and compares it with my own translation and that of the French version, which appeared in 1963. I also attempt to explain some features of Gadda's writing which might appear to defy adequate translation.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
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 score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.230 · 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.

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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