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A I Language Translation – Limitations and Benefits
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have enabled easier access to online language translation but a key question is whether the quality of that translation is sufficient for scientific publication, which has much higher standards than conversational language.
One major challenge in English is the ambiguous meanings of many, if not most, words. Scientific publications demand that each sentence has only a single possible interpretation that reflects what the author intended to mean.
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Translation of your manuscript to English using A I:
- should improve your language for spelling and grammar, but -
- it will not avoid ambiguities in meaning
- it will not be able to evaluate the strategy of your study
- it will not check the sequence of presentation in your manuscript
- it will not check your Figures and Tables or ensure they agree with your text
- it will not check that your conclusions from the data are correct and are substantiated by the results presented, and so on.
These limitations are even more severe in revised manuscripts and in responses to Editors and Reviewers, which is a critical part of the scientific publication process.
At DASS Manuscript, we take care to avoid all of those limitations. Our editors are accomplished native English-speaking scientists who have published hundreds of scientific articles in their careers. They have expertise that will increase the probability that your paper will be reviewed by the journal of your choice and will eventually be accepted for publication.
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In sum, A I Language Translation services can quickly assess the quality of your writing and improve it to some extent. However, do not handicap the chances for the publication of your manuscript by only doing that! Have your valuable manuscript revised by an actual human scientist prior to submitting it for publication.
An excellent open-access article was recently published (the Suppl Info is in many languages) and we encourage you to read that to understand the pro’s and con’s of current AI translation tools, how journals are approaching this issue and prospects for the future.
- Steigerwald et al., ”Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future” BioScience 72(10):988-998, 2022. [Link]
Let us help you maintain outstanding standards in your scientific publications.
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