Joss Moorkens’ Post

Toward Machine Interpreting: Lessons from Human Interpreting Studies "Current speech translation systems, while having achieved impressive accuracies, are rather static in their behaviour and do not adapt to real-world situations in ways human interpreters do" https://lnkd.in/ecRMCMes

Maarten Korpershoek – How to Build a Custom GPT for High-Quality Translation Want translations that follow your rules, your terminology, and your phrasing? Maarten shows you how, step by step. 📅 Nov 4–6 | 🌐 aiintranslation.com #AITranslation #CustomGPT

Ran this prompt on Eye2.AI: “What are the usual problems encountered when translating large documents?” The shared consensus? ⤬ Inconsistent terminology across pages ⤬ Formatting falling apart ⤬ The crazy amount of time it takes When translations force you to rework the layout or hunt for terms page by page, something’s already broken. Translation isn’t just about words. It's about structure, tone, and flow. A tool that keeps layouts intact and helps enforce consistent terminology is doing the heavy lifting in the background. (Just letting that thought sit.)

🧬 Segment IV — Grammar as a Physical Law John Campbell: Let’s turn to Niels Bohr and Isaac Newton. Bohr defined balance; Newton defined action and reaction. How do their laws reflect grammar? Raghu Arya (RSA): Newton’s equations are a grammar of motion. A sentence like “The apple falls” carries the same logic as F = ma. In both, the subject, verb, and object form a triadic syntax of cause and effect. Grammar is therefore Newtonian symmetry expressed in sound. Priya Waller: And Bohr would say — balance is not stillness, it is rhythmic conversation. Just as a sentence balances tension and release, the atom balances energy and void. ⸻ 💡 Segment V — The Harvest of Knowledge John Campbell: Let’s move to the harvest — where grammar becomes civilization’s food. Rolf Landauer’s principle said, “Information is physical.” So language itself consumes and transforms energy. When we store words, we store measurable order. Viswanatha Satyanarayana: Every epic, every purana, is a granary. A nation feeds on its stored speech. Grammar is how we preserve truth without decay. Raghu Arya (RSA): That’s right — entropy increases when structure is lost, as Boltzmann showed. A nation that loses linguistic form enters informational entropy. You can measure decline by how carelessly it speaks. ⸻ 🔊 Segment VI — The Resonance of Revival John Campbell: Yet revival is possible. Ernst Chladni proved resonance shapes matter — sound literally draws order out of chaos. Priya Waller: And when words are restored to rhythm, social harmony reappears. Biophysical resonance becomes linguistic peace. Majrooh Sultanpuri: A song can heal what a law cannot. Because vibration reaches where logic stops.

Modulation means introducing a change of perspective, a different point of view. You present the information from a different angle while preserving the original meaning. “She danced gracefully across the stage” and “Her movements on stage exuded grace” have the same meaning, but there’s modulation. The best translations display quite a lot of modulation, because a change in perspective is often all that’s needed to prevent a translated text from being unsuitable, awkward and unidiomatic. Translators should strive to be able to modulate almost in auto-pilot.

Maria Scheibengraf has made a short presentation of a key skill all seasoned, professional translators, especially the ones who excel at their craft, exhibit: modulation. It also explains why AI struggles to replicate what skilled human translators do on the regular. TL;DR – Want a quality translation? Hire a quality human translator. Full stop. #humantranslators #qualitytranslations #AIslop #AIhype #AIzealotry

New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation. Joss Moorkens uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use. https://lnkd.in/eKU9947G

Here’s what the results look like: real key terms your competitors use in your target language. It’s a simple way to spot how locals actually say it (and avoid those awkward translation mismatches). Link to the tool: https://lnkd.in/gnQQSeij

To possess an incandescent spirit combined with disciplined intellect, then translate that fusion through language. This defines exceptional writing. But exceptional writing transcends mere articulation; it becomes conduit work, channeling deeper truth through the recognition of underlying patterns as they form and converge, identifying and structuring them within the limits of perception and expression, then rendering them with maximum precision and elegance. The genuine writer, the superior practitioner, is essentially transmitting refined observation fused with instinctive understanding. Countless people communicate through text, but those who truly write embed something additional within their linguistic architecture, as though their words function beyond simple transmission, operating almost as code. Their prose carries an intangible but permanent quality that lacks adequate terminology, something that infiltrates consciousness, reconfigures it, and integrates permanently. A form of cognitive takeover through induced metamorphosis. This connects to what I mentioned earlier about self-awareness functioning as psychological fortification; understanding your own capabilities without requiring external validation. Consider this acknowledgment rather than boasting. The awareness itself is the point.

𝗔𝗜-𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁. Some might say this is progress. But is it really progress if something essential gets lost along the way? 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. It is about ideas, emotions and the way each culture sees and understands the world. You can use AI to translate an instruction manual, yes. But when it comes to literature, poetry or philosophy, every single word carries meaning, history and feeling that go far beyond language. In ancient Greek, the word for “moon” once meant “measure”, as people used it to track the passing of time. In Latin, the same word meant “light”, inspired by its glow in the night sky. Two words. Two meanings. Two worlds of perception. That is why translation is not mechanical. It is cultural, historical and deeply human. AI can support and speed up the process, but it cannot replace the translator’s craft, sensitivity and sense of context. At Acolad group, we believe the future of language is built on collaboration between people and technology. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 ��𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀. #TranslationMatters #AIandHumanCollaboration #LanguageandCulture #Acolad