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    How far can automatic translation engines be used as a tool for stylistic analysis?

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    Authors
    Crosbie, Tess
    French, Tim
    Conrad, Marc
    Issue Date
    2012
    Subjects
    literary analysis
    machine translation
    
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    Abstract
    This pilot study investigates the potential of automatic translation engines to be used as a tool for literary stylistic analysis. By translating from English into one of 62 languages and then re-translating back into English, the resulting texts were compared with a stylistic analysis of the original. Although the similarity index varied widely between languages - between 90% and 32.9% - many stylistic features were retained. However, more subtle features of the texts were lost in the translation process. The similarity index gives a good indication of the literary subtlety / quality of the text, suggesting that this process may be useful as a preliminary “filtering” technique in deeper stylistic studies.
    Citation
    Crosbie, T., French, T. and Conrad, M. (2012) 'How far can automatic translation engines be used as a tool for stylistic analysis?,' Information Society (i-Society), International Conference on : 503-507
    Publisher
    IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/279213
    Additional Links
    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6285033&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6285033
    Type
    Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    9781467308380
    Collections
    Centre for Research in Distributed Technologies (CREDIT)

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