AI translation

The use of an AI system (rule-based, statistical, or neural) to convert text from one natural language to another, including specifically the use of LLMs and dedicated neural machine translation systems for translating scholarly works or portions thereof.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

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AI translation is generally considered a writing aid rather than authorship contribution, and is disclosable on the same basis as AI-assisted writing. Translations published as standalone works typically require a human translator credited as such; AI-only translations should be disclosed and ideally human-reviewed for technical accuracy.

References

Stahlberg 2020 ‘Neural Machine Translation: A Review’ JAIR
ISO 18587:2017 Post-editing of machine translation output

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JATS XML <role> element

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      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="AI translation"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ai-translation" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

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  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T01:56:47",
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}

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