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Record W4408155213 · doi:10.1080/29940443.2025.2450104

Reflections: women translating Berlin

2024· article· en· W4408155213 on OpenAlexaff
Sherry Simon

Bibliographic record

VenueFeminist Translation Studies · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicGerman Colonialism and Identity Studies
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociology

Abstract

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More than other cities, Berlin is a terrain of conflicting meanings and codes demanding interpretation. Following the trails of translators Régine Robin, Esra Ackan, Yoko Tawada and Cécile Wajsbrot, all of them translators in their own way of the present and past of Berlin, this essay explores interactions between German and Yiddish, Turkish, Japanese and French. This essay responds to two research questions. The first concerns the interaction of languages in urban space, and more specifically, the ways that conversations across small spaces are enabled or hindered through translation. The second is a focus on the specific contributions of women translators whose writing careers were conducted across languages. As a city of layered histories, Berlin offers a rich canvas for the pursuit of this double focus. To listen to the languages involved and their translators is to hear Berlin differently. It means to amplify the voice of translation in cityspace, boosting the echoes of the past as well as the noisy conversations of the present.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.078

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0230.016
Scholarly communication0.0130.005
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

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 head0.163
GPT teacher head0.380
Teacher spread0.217 · 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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