Front. Artif. Intell.Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceFront. Artif. Intell.2624-8212Frontiers Media S.A.10.3389/frai.2025.1650320Artificial IntelligenceCorrectionCorrection: Stylistic variation across English translations of Chinese science fiction: Ken Liu versus ChatGPTFrontiers Production Office*Frontiers Media SA, Lausanne, Switzerland
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A Correction on Stylistic variation across English translations of Chinese science fiction: Ken Liu versus ChatGPT by Zhou, P., and Cheng, J. (2025). Front. Artif. Intell. 8:1576750. doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1576750science fiction translationlarge language model translationscorpus-based translationstylistic variationMulti-Dimensional analysissection-at-acceptanceLanguage and Computation
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There was a mistake in Table 1 as published. The last row was shifted two places to left adding “101,567” and “99,324” to columns 2 and 3, although these cells should have been blank. The corrected Table 1 appears below.
Ken Liu's SF translations.
Author
Chinese title
English translation and publication year
Token totals
Segment totals
KL
G1
G2
G3
G4
G5
Chen Qifan
《鼠年》
The Year of the Rat, 2013
9,312
12,379
12,146
12,029
11,876
11,806
74
《丽江的鱼儿们》
The Fish of Lijiang, 2011
5,197
5,485
5,271
5,346
5,258
5,306
39
《沙嘴之花》
The Flower of Shazui, 2012
5,923
5,315
4,981
5,053
4,990
5,190
46
Xia Jia
《百鬼夜行街》
A Hundred Ghost Parade Tonight, 2012
6,105
5,579
5,511
5,584
5,466
5,431
47
《童童的夏天》
Tongtong's Summer, 2014
5,718
5,173
5,060
4,997
4,916
4,970
43
《龙马夜行》
Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse, 2016
5,249
4,634
4,960
4,653
4,747
4,641
39
Ma Boyong
《寂静之城》
The City of Silence, 2011
14,802
15,467
15,247
15,411
15,302
15,512
109
Hao Jingfan
《看不见的星球》
Invisible Planets, 2013
5,969
5,407
5,290
5,430
5,262
5,376
42
《北京折叠》
Folding Beijing, 2015
15,956
14,720
14,186
13,980
13,823
14,024
101
Tang Fei
《黄色故事》
Call Girl, 2013
2,767
2,509
2,602
2,588
2,596
2,569
22
Cheng Jingbo
《萤火虫之墓》
Grave of the Fireflies, 2014
5,169
4,678
4,737
4,770
4,782
4,637
37
Liu Cixin
《圆》
The Circle, 2014
6,885
5,823
6,382
6,250
6,432
6,231
49
《赡养上帝》
Taking Care of God, 2012
12,515
12,155
11,534
11,723
11,863
11,745
92
Total
101,567
99,324
97,907
97,814
97,313
97,438
740
The above works will henceforth be abbreviated as Rat, Fish, Flower, Ghost, Summer, Journey, City, Planets, Beijing, Girl, Grave, Circle, and God, respectively in the subsequent tests, tables, and figures.
The original version of this article has been updated.