HUMAN INTELLIGENCE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COLLABORATION AND RENDERING THE “UNTRANSLATABLE” IN LITERARY TEXTS
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COLLABORATION AND RENDERING THE “UNTRANSLATABLE” IN LITERARY TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: Information technologies are increasingly present across various fields of activity, and translation is no exception. Translators rely on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in their search for resources to support their comprehension of the subject matter to be translated, to identify and extract terminology from specialised domains, as well as to compile the applied corpora according to the specific issues under investigation. When it comes to literary translation, the role of technology, particularly that of Artificial Intelligence (AI), is less evident. We note that there are certain reservations and criticisms regarding the involvement of AI, in one form or another, in the translation of literary texts, which requires a creative, emotional, and evaluative approach, taking into account the current pragmatic framework for each act of intercultural communication. Translation presents itself as a game played according to a set of rules, while the players in this game have varying responsibilities depending on the circumstances. The situation becomes more complex if the source text contains information regarded as “untranslatable”, a topic long debated in translation theory and practice. How can such problems be solved: by human translator’s intervention only, or by means of which translation strategies and techniques? Is AI “capable” of dealing with these elements autonomously or does it generally omit them altogether (as human translators do the same in certain situations)? What could literary translation gain from the human-machine collaboration? In the present article, we aim to analyse the current situation in the field and to provide several answers to the aforementioned questions.

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