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Hard Nut to Crack...「作家性」とは

My brain is in a state of vertigo! After weeks of translating scientific papers, I am now working on something creative for a change (Japanese → English). The original is written in abstract and figurative speech which made me scratch m

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Review on an “Untranslatable” Book

Can AI write poems? – That’s the starting point of an AI project named after renowned Japanese poet Issa Kobayashi. It was developed by a team of researchers at Hokkaido University with the aim to study AI’s feasibility in the world of crea

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Small-talk capable AI?

I never thought of AI doing small talk until I took part in a breakout session during the DJW (Japanese-German Business Association Symposium) 2021 last week. 💬 The session deals with the use of AI-based chatbots in customer service and co

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Need a good advocate for the Nobel Prize?

Congrats to Abdulrazak Gurnah, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021! And condolences to millions of Harukists who believed that the prize this year would go to their favourite Japanese author, Haruki Murakami. It is a well-known f

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