AI is an opportunity to revisit popular translation theories and models to see how well they fare.

What is it about?

This paper revisits some popular translation theories and theoretical proposals to see if they are consistent enough to feed through AI and produce satisfactory results. The author includes his own theory of Priorities and Restrictions and Jakobson's 3 types of translation

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Why is it important?

It is important to be consantly critical of mainstream and traditional theories and not to take themm for granted or fal into the falacy of 'appeal to authority', the 'bandwagon'.