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I'm generally excited about something I'm calling "English to English translation" - and this is a good example. Previously translation has focused on going be
by tikkun 3y ago
I'm generally excited about something I'm calling "English to English translation" - and this is a good example.
Previously translation has focused on going between languages.
I think there's just as much benefit to translating within a given language.
* Translate corporate speak to plain English.
* Translate passive aggressive to calm and peaceful.
* Translate sensationalist to neutral (like the OP).
* Translate implicit and heavy with subtext to direct and assertive.
- tikkun 3y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256007
- throwaway280382 3y agoTI have been thinking on similar lines. I have access to my own freelancers. However, do you have any pointers to algos/libraries I should be using? My NLP skills are not great!
- dontupvoteme 3y agoyou are missing "rewrite email i don't want to read in the style of <author i like> influenced by <other thing i like>"
- nico 3y agoThe same concept applies to so many things One time, local-dialect subtitles completely changed a movie experience for me It was an American movie. Where I was, they usually watch movies with english audio and neutral Spanish subtitles This time, instead of neutral Spanish, they used local Spanish with slang… wow, what a difference in the way the movie felt Having local language and slang can convey meaning and emotions so much more effectively
- nottorp 3y agoProper translation is an art form... if you have the budget. Otherwise, it's someone typing as fast as the movie goes on the first viewing.
- jebarker 3y agoAnother use case in the arts: interpreting literature and finding connections within and between books
- mclightning 3y agoI love this.
- torresmo 3y agoI am looking forward to a tool to summarize a 10 page long Terms of Service into a list of points about what I really need to beware of. Same for legal contracts.
- cookie_monsta 3y agoStill generated by humans afaik, but in the neighbourhood: https://tosdr.org/ https://tosdr.org/
- ranger_danger 3y agoThere's already countless tools you can find online that will summarize text for you, but here's a more recent one: https://www.chatpdf.com/ https://www.chatpdf.com/
- aledalgrande 3y agoMy favorite is pasting something into the chat with "ELI5"
- hooande 3y agoWhat you described is known as "sequence-to-sequence learning", or seq2seq. Google it or ask ChatGPT. It's a very common NLP technique that can do almost everything you mentioned. Of course the utility will depend on the training data you collect. For example to go from corporate speak -> english you would need thousands of pairs of "translated" sentences. Or you could use an LLM to translate for you, paying as you go