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We are committed to helping non-native English-speaking authors share their discoveries and creative insights with the world. As a stepping stone toward this end, we are currently focused on reaching out to female authors and international scientists. Women have been historically underrepresented in translation, and non-native English-speaking scientists often struggle to overcome an unfair competitive advantage and produce work in the de facto language of science — English.
Our flagship product, Concision, brings human and artificial intelligence together using collaborative evolutionary computation in order to translate and edit texts of varying size and complexity (e.g., print ads, articles, monographs, etc.) in a fraction of the time and cost of current pure-human and pure-computer editorial services. Our method will result in the best possible revision or translation of a given text relative to the aesthetic preferences and cognitive styles of the target audience. In theory, this approach can also be used to foreground textual features of transcendent beauty and near universal aesthetic appeal. Concision zeros in on textual features that cannot be easily outsourced to algorithms and that are fatally dependent on evolving, subjective human evaluations. Consequently, our method will represent one potential defense against the wholesale displacement of human translators and editors by AI.
We are currently experimenting with applications for Concision in the following areas:
(1)Translating/post-editing lengthy works of imaginative literature
(2)Translating/post-editing scholarly monographs
(3) Helping authors "hear their voice" in the words of the human or machine translation, i.e., helping authors who are fluent in the target language discover the translated version of their text that best resonates with the source text.
(4)Adapting the form and content of textbooks to the aptitudes, readiness levels and cognitive styles of a target student demographic
(5) Increasing the effectiveness of print advertisements
Our flagship product, Concision, brings human and artificial intelligence together using collaborative evolutionary computation in order to translate and edit texts of varying size and complexity (e.g., print ads, articles, monographs, etc.) in a fraction of the time and cost of current pure-human and pure-computer editorial services. Our method will result in the best possible revision or translation of a given text relative to the aesthetic preferences and cognitive styles of the target audience. In theory, this approach can also be used to foreground textual features of transcendent beauty and near universal aesthetic appeal. Concision zeros in on textual features that cannot be easily outsourced to algorithms and that are fatally dependent on evolving, subjective human evaluations. Consequently, our method will represent one potential defense against the wholesale displacement of human translators and editors by AI.
We are currently experimenting with applications for Concision in the following areas:
(1)Translating/post-editing lengthy works of imaginative literature
(2)Translating/post-editing scholarly monographs
(3) Helping authors "hear their voice" in the words of the human or machine translation, i.e., helping authors who are fluent in the target language discover the translated version of their text that best resonates with the source text.
(4)Adapting the form and content of textbooks to the aptitudes, readiness levels and cognitive styles of a target student demographic
(5) Increasing the effectiveness of print advertisements