Language detecting technology struggles with George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones characters and many other fantasy novels pose an issue for technology designed to decipher languages and the written word. Quirky names, such as Daenerys and Grey Worm, don't look or resemble most names from the real world and are often not picked up by technology as they don't behave in a normal manner. The algorithms are developed and trained to detect names by studying newspaper articles. A vastly different writing style is found in non-fiction novels and makes the detection of fictional names almost impossible. Names are contextualised in stories and this also adds another layer to the thorny issue.
Apr-19-2019, 06:18:57 GMT