Taylor & Francis is translating academic books into English with AI doing the first pass and human editors — including the original authors — handling post-editing and quality control. After a year of testing, translated titles start appearing…
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The Royal Society of Chemistry is trialling machine translation for authors whose first language isn’t English. The models are fine-tuned on chemistry-specific parallel text, and output goes through human editing rather than straight to the manuscript.
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Book Sprints facilitates groups of domain experts — often not professional writers — to write a book collaboratively in five days by stripping out the friction of a conventional publishing process. Under Barbara Rühling, it has run experiments…
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Clara (short for clarity) is the AI data steward at the heart of Frontiers’ FAIR² Data Management platform, launched on Open Data Day 2025. Researchers upload a dataset and Clara helps with metadata, curation and preparation; the output…
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Thad McIlroy’s Future of Publishing blog documents a hands-on experiment: translating Janwei Xun’s Ipnocrazia: Trump, Musk e la nuova architettura della realtà from Italian to English using Claude. He bought a DRM-free EPUB, converted it to .docx, and…
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Curie is Springer Nature’s scientific writing assistant, aimed particularly at researchers whose first language isn’t English. It pairs large language models with editing models trained on academic literature across 447+ fields and over a million edits from published…
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Custom GPTs — tailored versions of ChatGPT — applied to fiction editing. In a BISG webinar, Erin Servais demonstrates one that evaluates scene setting and sensory detail, suggesting edits like tying environment to character arc.
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EditGPT packages generative AI copyediting prompts into clickable buttons — “Light Copyedit”, “Chicago Style” — and exports the result as a Word document with tracked changes.
Amazon’s AI translation service for Kindle ebooks. The stated rationale: less than 5% of titles on Amazon are available in multiple languages.
MDPI is piloting large language models that help authors generate summaries, keywords and other additions to make manuscripts easier to find and read.
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