‘Ein eigentümlicher Apparat’/ an extraordinary machine?': An experiment feeding Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie’ (‘In the Penal Colony’) into Machine Translation engines and Generative AI

Dr Michael Kane

doi:10.31428/10317/18673

‘Ein eigentümlicher Apparat’/ an extraordinary machine?': An experiment feeding Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie’ (‘In the Penal Colony’) into Machine Translation engines and Generative AI

Language Studies

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Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages (EUtLC2024)
Editors	Camino Rea Rizzo
Place of Publication	Cartagena Spain
Publisher	Ediciones UPCT
Pages	33-44
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	978-84-95781-37-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31428/10317/18673
Publication status	Published - 2025

Keywords

Kafka; ‘In the Penal Colony’; Machine Translation; ChatGPT; Literature and Artificial Intelligence

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Kane, D. M. (2025). ‘Ein eigentümlicher Apparat’/ an extraordinary machine?': An experiment feeding Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie’ (‘In the Penal Colony’) into Machine Translation engines and Generative AI. In C. Rea Rizzo (Ed.), Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes: Proceedings of the 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages (EUtLC2024) (pp. 33-44). Ediciones UPCT. https://doi.org/10.31428/10317/18673

Kane, Dr Michael. / ‘Ein eigentümlicher Apparat’/ an extraordinary machine?' : An experiment feeding Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie’ (‘In the Penal Colony’) into Machine Translation engines and Generative AI. Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes: Proceedings of the 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages (EUtLC2024). editor / Camino Rea Rizzo. Cartagena Spain : Ediciones UPCT, 2025. pp. 33-44

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Kane DM. ‘Ein eigentümlicher Apparat’/ an extraordinary machine?': An experiment feeding Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie’ (‘In the Penal Colony’) into Machine Translation engines and Generative AI. In Rea Rizzo C, editor, Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes: Proceedings of the 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages (EUtLC2024). Cartagena Spain: Ediciones UPCT. 2025. p. 33-44 doi: 10.31428/10317/18673