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Bridge Essay: Literary Translation in the Modern World

2019· other· en· W2995065035 on OpenAlexaff
Melek Ortabasi

Bibliographic record

VenueA Companion to World Literature · 2019
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTranslation Studies and Practices
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorld literaturePoliticsSnapshot (computer storage)Literary translationBridge (graph theory)Translation studiesSociologyHistoryEpistemologyAestheticsLiteraturePolitical scienceLawPhilosophyArtComputer science

Abstract

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As the main process by which literature travels beyond its initial linguistic and cultural context, translation is unavoidably at the center of any discussion of world literature. This chapter offers a starting point for thinking about the complex and capacious relationship between translation and world literature, particularly in the modern world. Three subsections present crucial aspects of this relationship. The first section offers a snapshot of the ways in which our developing awareness of translation's importance continues to shape our conceptions of “world literature.” The next section presents diverse perspectives on the historical roles of translation after about 1700, when the rise of empires in conjunction with the formation of modern nation‐states began to set the political tone in many parts of the world. Finally, we turn our attention to the ethical and aesthetic concerns that have shaped the discourse on production and consumption of literary translations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.113

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0070.007
Scholarly communication0.0100.008
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0340.005

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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.273
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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