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LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC DISTORTIONS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION OF SHAKESPEARE’S POETRY

2025 · Vestnik of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University · Vol 25, pp. 180-185 · 0 citations

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The work highlights the need to take into account the stylistic and semantic features of poetic discourse in automated translation and suggests ways to improve machine translation algorithms to more accurately convey the artistic and emotional nuances of poetry.

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This paper examines the features and difficulties of machine translation of William Shakespeare’s poetic texts, in particular, cases of distortion or violation of lexical units and stable phrases. The analysis is based on a comparison of the original text with the results of a translation performed using modern machine translation systems. Special attention is paid to typical errors related to the ambiguity of words, violation of syntactic connections, ignoring the cultural and contextual meaning of metaphors, as well as the destruction of poetic structure. The work highlights the need to take into account the stylistic and semantic features of poetic discourse in automated translation and suggests ways to improve machine translation algorithms to more accurately convey the artistic and emotional nuances of poetry.

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