Assessing AI-Powered Literary Translation Quality: Austen's “Sense and Sensibility” As a Corpus
تقييم جودة الترجمة المدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي: رواية "العقل والعاطفة" لجاين أوستن أنموذجا
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https://doi.org/10.33705/1111-017-001-032Keywords:
Literary translation, AI-powered Machine Translation, Human translation, Quality assessment.Abstract
: This research explores the disparities between the quality of human and AI-powered translations of literary texts. It compares the output of ChatGPT3.5 into Arabic of passages from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”- translated without any pre-editing or postediting- to the reference translation by Amin Al-Sharif. It departs from a comprehensive analysis of the translations' linguistic, stylistic, semantic, and structural aspects. The subsequent BLEU Score measurement shows that the Human translation was better in style and conveying meaning. Moreover, although the AI- translation conserves the structure of the Source Text, it fails to produce a text that preserves the stylistic and semantic features of literary prose
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