The emergence of neural translators in regulated language activity systems: Distortions, conflicts and innovations

Eduardo Apodaka; Asier Amezaga; Auxkin Galarraga

doi:10.31637/epsir-2022-196

Authors

Eduardo Apodaka University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4244-3179
Asier Amezaga Universidad del País Vasco,University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3976-2830
Auxkin Galarraga Universidad del País Vasco,University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8880-3208

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2022-196

Keywords:

neural translators, basque language, revitalization of minority languages, regulated activity systems

Abstract

Artificial intelligence based on neural networks is assuming a revolution in the technologization of linguistic activities of all kinds. The processing or understanding of natural language and the automatic recognition of speech and its applications will change language relations and activities and communication in general. In this article we present the approach and first steps of an ongoing research on the impact of artificial intelligence and, in particular, on the challenges and opportunities of its applications, neural translators in the case of a minority language in the process of revitalization, the Basque language.The study focuses on functional and regulated activity systems that explicitly target both language skills and habits and collective capacities for the live use of the Basque language. It examines the impact, distortions and innovations that technology is producing and those that it can produce in the near future in the light of the tension between objectives, standards and resources.

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