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Record W7130643839 · doi:10.5817/cejcs2023-18-9

Translating Carleigh Baker's "Last Woman"

2023· article· en· W7130643839 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Szonja Greilinger

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Central European journal of Canadian studies · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTranslation Studies and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTranslation studiesTranslation (biology)Literary translationNarrativeMachine translation

Abstract

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This article invites the reader on a short – but hopefully informative – journey into the world of literary translation and Galiano Island in Canada through Carleigh Baker's fascinating short story "Last Woman." After a brief introduction of the author, a concise summary of the story and its major themes follows. Additionally, I provide insight into the theory of translating culture-specific words and expressions through the employment of the foreignizing translation method. In the final part of the article, I share examples of my translation of "Last Woman." Using foreignization, I aimed to keep the culture-specific items of the original, English text in the Hungarian, translated text. However, through my examples, I will demonstrate that short stories containing cultural information require flexible and creative solutions rather than the strict application of rules and methods.

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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)0.000
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 score0.833
Threshold uncertainty score0.763

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
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 head0.109
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.152 · 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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