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Adam Podoxin

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🎓CS + LING @ SFU 📝NLP & Computational Linguistics research 💻 Full-stack and cloud dev

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
For the last few months, I've been working with my new colleague at SFU @markar.bsky.social, students @yvesfrtl.bsky.social, @adampodoxin.bsky.social, Ty Brassington, and Roman Grundkiewicz of Microsoft, trying to understand the quality of machine translation for literary texts. ...
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yvesfrtl.bsky.social @yvesfrtl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📚 AI-written stories get attention, but AI-translated literature is quietly shaping how readers experience the author So what gets lost ⁉️ 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book
First page of the paper "AI translation of literary texts is ‘fine’, but readers still prefer human translations".
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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A lot of people focus on AI-written fiction, but what about AI literary translation? 📚 We find that AI translation can be readable.. ‼️BUT it also flattens characters' voices 🧙and is less immersive 🫣 than published human translations. Below is my favorite quote from a reader 📖 lait.cs.sfu.ca
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arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language @cscl-bot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yves Ferstler, Adam Podoxin, Ty Brassington, Roman Grundkiewicz, Maite Taboada, Marzena Karpinska: AI translation of literary texts is "fine", but readers still prefer human translations arxiv.org/abs/2606.26040 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.26040 arxiv.org/html/2606.26040
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