Re:Prism
by biophysboy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:17PM
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Are they good at translating scientific jargon specific to a niche within a field? I have no doubt LLMs are excellent at translating well-trodden patterns; I'm a bit suspicious otherwise..
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It seems to me that jargon would tend to be defined in one language and minimally adapted in other languages. So I’d not sure that would be much of a concern.
Re:Prism
by fuzzfactor on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:55AM
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I would look at non-English research papers along with the English ones in my field and the more jargon and just plain numbers and equations there were, the more I could get out of it without much further translation.
Re:Prism
by disconcision on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:31PM
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for better or for worse, most specific scientific jargon is already going to be in english
In my experience of using it to translate ML work between English->Spanish|Galician, it seems to literally translate jargon too eagerly, to the point that I have to tell it to maintain specific terms in English to avoid it sounding too weird (for most modern ML jargon there really isn't a Spanish translation).