AI translation counters to help tourists - 台北時報 - Translation

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Automatic translation kiosks are being installed at tourist destinations to help lower communication barriers for visitors, the Tourism Administration said on Tuesday.

With 12 million international visitors expected next year, the agency said it is hoping to enhance foreign-language services at airports and scenic areas.

Information counters are currently staffed by people who speak different languages, but the service is limited by working hours, it said in a news release.

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The agency is therefore installing “smart counters” powered by artificial intelligence (AI), which can provide real-time translations for English, Japanese and Korean speakers, it said.

The kiosks are able to help travelers and staff communicate, while also exhibiting Taiwan’s technological prowess, it said.

The AI used to power the kiosks is comparable to a professional interpreter with three years of experience, the agency said, adding that they also utilize transparent screens and 5G for a seamless face-to-face interaction.

Kiosks have already been set up at information desks at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) and the visitors’ center at Yehliu Geopark (野柳地質公園) in New Taipei City, it said.

If it receives positive feedback, the agency said it plans to eventually provide the service at airports nationwide and the 13 scenic areas under its jurisdiction.

Additional languages are to be added in the future depending on database availability, Information Management Office Director Liu Chao-jung (劉昭榮) said.

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'Rizz' Is Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year – Here's What it Means - PEOPLE - Dictionary

Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz.”

Dictionary publisher Oxford University Press defines the viral term, which is short for charisma, as “someone’s ability to attract another person through style, charm, or attractiveness.”

"Rizz" can also be used as a verb, most commonly in the phrase “rizz up,” which, similarly to "chat up," means “to attract, seduce, or chat up (a person),” per Oxford.

Another popular iteration of the word is “rizzler,” a title given to individuals who, well, possess a lot of "rizz." The term was even included in a viral song parody, which features the lyrics: “Sticking out your gyat for the rizzler / You’re so skibidi / You’re so Fanum tax."

Oxford's Word of the Year 2023 — which was selected by a team of language experts and more than 32,000 votes — has become a staple of Gen-Z- and Gen-Alpha slang since it was first coined.

"Rizz" even received the Merriam-Webster stamp of approval in September, becoming one of 690 new words to get added to the renowned dictionary.

Use of the word "rizz" peaked in June 2023 when Tom Holland said he had "no need" for it while discussing his relationship with Zendaya.

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According to the Oxford Dictionary, use of the word has increased dramatically this year — and in June, Tom Holland even fielded a question about the "secret" of his "rizz" in a BuzzFeed interview.

Holland, 27, responded by saying that he has “no need for rizz” because he is “happy and in love” with girlfriend Zendaya.

“I have no rizz whatsoever," he said.

Other stars who have weighed in on the word include Tom Hanks and George Clooney, who both declared that “if you claim to have rizz, you don’t have rizz,” on BBC's The One Show on Monday. “It’s gotta be placed upon you,” Hanks, 67, added.

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In order to snag the top spot, rizz had to beat out several other words, and the top finalists were “prompt,” “situationship” and “Swiftie.”

The Oxford Dictionary defined "prompt," which was considered for its relevance to AI, as “an instruction given to an artificial intelligence program, algorithm, etc., which determines or influences the content it generates.”

Popularized by social media and dating shows, "situationship" merges “situation" and “relationship” to refer to “a romantic or sexual relationship that is not considered to be formal or established.” It was considered because it “captures the uncertainty and lack of formalization that many people feel about their relationships.”

The last finalist, "Swiftie," is a title reserved for only the most “enthusiastic” fans of Taylor Swift — who topped PEOPLE's 2023 Most Intriguing People of the Year list.

 Other Word of the Year runners-up included “beige flag,” “de-influencing,” “heat dome” and “parasocial.”

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Oxford picks "rizz" as the word of the year - CBS News - Dictionary

Often associated with celebrities and other famous figures, "rizz" has been chosen by the Oxford University Press as its word of the year. 

It's a term Gen Z has mainly embraced, and it beat out words such as "prompt," "situationship" and "Swiftie" that were considered by Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary. But what does it mean?

What does rizz mean?

Under Oxford's definition, it's a noun that means style, charm, attractiveness or the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner. Oxford said rizz was a shortened form of the word charisma. 

"The word 'rizz' can also be used as a verb, often in the phrase 'rizz up', which means 'to attract, seduce, or chat up (a person),' Oxford said. 

Where did the word rizz come from? 

Its origins have been pegged to Twitch steamer Kai Cenat who has been credited with popularizing the word on the interactive livestreaming platform. He told Complex that it came from him and his group of friends before he said it on Twitch and it spilled across social media. Unlike Oxford's characterization of the term, Cenat said the word is not short of charisma to him, and instead, it "meant game." 

The term has sice evolved to mean different variations of the word rizz, such as "l rizz" and "unspoken rizz."

The word took another level when Spider-Man actor Tom Holland was asked if he had any rizz in a Buzzfeed interview published in June. 

"I have no rizz whatsoever, I have limited rizz," Holland told the outlet. 

"I need you to fall in love with me, really, for it to work," he added. 

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Casper Grathwohl, president at Oxford Languages, told the BBC that rizz possibly spoke to "a prevailing mood of 2023, where more of us are opening ourselves up after a challenging few years and finding confidence in who we are." Grathwohl said the rise of the use of the word rizz also shows that words from internet culture are becoming more part of the everyday vernacular. 

While Merriam-Webster's word of the year was "authentic," rizz was also under consideration. Collins Dictionary selected "artificial intelligence" as their word of the year in November. 

Last year, the slang term "Goblin mode" took the prize as Oxford's 2022 word of the year. Oxford described it as a type of behavior when someone is "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations."

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Rizz named word of the year 2023 by Oxford University Press - BBC.com - Dictionary

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Tom Holland has admitted that he has "no rizz"

Are you good at chatting up or flirting with potential partners? If so, you may already have rizz, even if you didn't know it.

The Oxford word of the year, internet slang for romantic appeal or charm, is mostly used by young people.

It was one of eight words on a shortlist, all chosen to reflect the mood, ethos or preoccupations of 2023.

The list was narrowed down in a public vote, before Oxford lexicographers made the final decision.

Other contenders ranged from Swiftie to beige flag to situationship.

What is rizz, and do you have it?

The word might not mean anything to you if you're not Generation Z.

But it's used massively online, with billions of views of the hashtag "rizz" on TikTok.

According to Oxford University Press [OUP], which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary [OED], it is defined as style, charm, or attractiveness, and the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner.

The term is thought to be a shortened form of the word "charisma".

It can also be used as a verb, in sayings such as "to rizz up", which means to attract, seduce, or chat someone up.

It's essentially a newer version of "game", defined as skill, prowess, and the ability to attract others sexually by using one's charm.

What do the shorlisted words mean?

• Beige flag (n.): a character trait that indicates that a partner or potential partner is boring or lacks originality; (also) a trait or habit, esp. of a partner or potential partner, viewed as extremely characteristic, but not distinctly good or bad [draft definition]
• Situationship (n.): a romantic or sexual relationship that is not considered to be formal or established.
• Parasocial (adj.): designating a relationship characterized by the one-sided, unreciprocated sense of intimacy felt by a viewer, fan, or follower for a well-known or prominent figure (typically a media celebrity), in which the follower or fan comes to feel (falsely) that they know the celebrity as a friend.
• Heat dome (n.): a persistent high-pressure weather system over a particular geographic area, which traps a mass of hot air below it [draft definition]
• Swiftie (n.): an enthusiastic fan of the singer Taylor Swift [draft definition]
• Prompt (n.): an instruction given to an artificial intelligence program, algorithm, etc., which determines or influences the content it generates [draft definition]
• De-influencing (n.): the practice of discouraging people from buying particular products, or of encouraging people to reduce their consumption of material goods, esp. via social media [draft definition]

OUP added that a draft definition is one drafted by lexicographers "for the purposes of the Word of the Year campaign", and that the words without drafts definitions are already in the OED.

It explained that the rest of the words may eventually be added to dictionaries, "after assessment of their longevity, frequency, and breadth of usage".

YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat is widely credited as having popularised the term rizz, which he used with his friends.

Usage of the word continued to climb this year, and in June, actor Tom Holland was asked by Buzzfeed about the secret to his rizz.

Holland replied: "I have no rizz whatsoever. I have limited rizz," before explaining he won over his girlfriend Zendaya by playing the "long game".

Last year's Oxford word of the year was "goblin mode", another slang term describing "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy" behaviour.

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Many people adopted goblin mode, giving in to lazy behaviour, during the pandemic

Casper Grathwohl, president at Oxford Languages, said that while "goblin mode" had resonated with many people after the pandemic, "it's interesting to see a contrasting word like rizz come to the forefront".

He said the word possibly spoke to "a prevailing mood of 2023, where more of us are opening ourselves up after a challenging few years and finding confidence in who we are".

Mr Grathwohl added that the rise in use of the word rizz proved that words and phrases that derive from internet culture "are increasingly becoming part of day-to-day vernacular".

The shortlist of eight words was selected by the language experts at Oxford University Press.

That list was then put to a public vote in late November, reducing the field to four finalists, before the experts made the final selection.

In November, the makers of Collins Dictionary revealed their word of 2023 as "artificial intelligence".

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Rizzlers rejoice: The Oxford Dictionary announced its word of the year - Business Insider - Dictionary

How I hope to see you all before you post the most horrible photo I've ever seen claiming to possess the elusive 'rizz.'

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• It's been the year of "rizz," "rizzing up," and the often self-proclaimed "rizzler."
• The Oxford English Dictionary even declared it 2023's word of the year.
• The word is derived from "charisma," something many lack in the extreme.

Goodbye, "goblin mode." Hello, "rizz."

Folks, we've done it again — as a collective, we've pushed the esteemed Oxford English Dictionary into making a slang term its word of the year.

The dictionary again opened its contest up for a vote for the second time ever.

Other competitors for word of the year were "prompt," "situationship," and "Swiftie." The shortlist included "beige flag," "de-influencing," "heat dome," and "parasocial." If you don't know what those words mean, you might want to stop reading and stick to your generation's slang.

After over 32,000 people cast votes, the Oxford team picked "rizz" as its final selection.

The term comes from the word "charisma," according to the dictionary's announcement. It refers to "someone's ability to attract another person through style, charm, or attractiveness," per Oxford.

According to USA Today, it was first popularized by Kai Cenat, a YouTuber and live streamer, in 2021.

Though it was already floating through the interwebs, the word skyrocketed in popularity in 2023 when actor Tom Holland said he had "no rizz whatsoever" in an interview with BuzzFeed, Oxford said.

So, hooray for rizz, I suppose — but I need you all not to act a fool now that the term has been legitimized in the offline sphere.

I've seen lots of claims of rizz where there is absolutely none, so I'm urging you to look up the meaning of the word before you say you have it.

I've made a helpful acronym for those wondering if you can shout your rizz from the mountain tops.

Before you post, remember to ask yourself if you have CATS.

Charisma. You probably need to consult an outside source for this one.

Attractiveness. Again, outside source.

Tact of any kind whatsoever.

A Semblance of a personality.

And, hey, if you can make it through that, it seems like you're good to go, you old rizzler, you.

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Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year Is … 'Rizz' - The New York Times - Dictionary

Sorry, Swifties. The Gen Z slang term — derived from “charisma” — went viral this year after the actor Tom Holland claimed to have none.

It’s official. Oxford University Press, the world’s second-oldest academic press and the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, has rizz.

Or at least, like the rest of us over a certain age, it’s trying to get some. “Rizz” — Gen Z (or is it Gen Alpha?) slang for “style, charm or attractiveness,” or “the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” — has been named as Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year, beating out contenders like situationship, prompt, de-influencing and (yes) Swiftie.

“Rizz” was first recorded in 2022, according to Oxford. But it went viral in June, after the actor Tom Holland, in an interview with Buzzfeed, said: “I have no rizz whatsoever. I have limited rizz.”

That spawned a crush of memes, as overall usage surged by a factor of about 15 over the previous year, according to Oxford’s data. Casper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Languages, the dictionary division, said that this year’s choice reflects the way social media has increased the pace of language change exponentially. Plus, he said, the word simply has … rizz.

“One of the reasons it’s moving from being a niche social media phrase into the mainstream is, it’s just fun to say,” he said. “When it comes off your tongue, there’s a little bit of joy that comes with it.”

Oxford’s Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its continually updated corpus of more than 22 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world. The selection, according to Oxford, is meant “to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of the preceding year, while also having “potential as a term of lasting cultural significance.”

Usually, Oxford’s lexicographers assemble a shortlist of words or expressions that saw a statistically relevant surge, and then choose a winner. But in recent years, Oxford has turned the selection process into the lexicographical version of a reality show.

Last year, Oxford let the public vote on three finalists. (“Goblin mode” came out on top, because 2022.) This year, the public was invited to cut the shortlist list in half by weighing in on four head-to-head thematic pairings. (Some 30,000 people voted, Oxford said.) Oxford’s team then made the final selection.

One pairing, “Swiftie” vs. “de-influencing,” related to celebrity culture. Others reflected personal characteristics (“rizz” vs. “beige flag,” a characteristic suggesting a partner is boring), the changing world (“prompt” vs. “heat dome”) and relationships (“parasocial” vs. “situationship”).

Grathwohl guessed, correctly, that the contest would ultimately come down to “Swiftie” vs. “rizz.” Which it did, but only after “de-influencing” (the practice of discouraging people from buying particular products, or reducing their consumption more generally) made a strong run at knocking out “Swiftie.”

As for “rizz,” Grathwohl said the word has some interesting features. Usually, shortened forms are taken from the start of a word (app, rhino) or the end (hood, bot). It’s more unusual, but not unheard of, for abbreviated forms to come from the middle (flu, fridge), he said.

He noted that “rizz” also gets used as a verb (as in to “rizz it up,” or charm someone). “As a word expands from one part of speech to another, that’s an indicator it might have some staying power,” he said.

And he had a friendly comment for Holland. “I hate to be a linguistic watchdog, but Tom should know that limited rizz is still rizz,” Grathwohl said. “He’s not being very precise.”

“Swiftie,” for all its overexposure, is also notable, Grathwohl said, for the way it illustrates how “fanalects”(languages that fans develop among themselves) take hold. Many never make it out of various subreddits. But now, with so many more ways to share, they can spread more easily.

In case you’re wondering: No, Taylor Swift and the supposedly rizz-challenged Tom Holland are not known to have officially dated. (Holland is happily in a relationship with Zendaya.) But today, everyone on Earth might feel like they’re in a parasocial situationship with Swift, whether they like it or not.

Still, Grathwohl said that “Swiftie” could transcend Swift herself, and become a more general descriptor of a certain worldview and lifestyle, much like “Deadhead” has come to conjure up more than just fandom for the Grateful Dead.

Still, even the seeming Taylor-fication of everything pales before the power of artificial intelligence. The surge in words like “prompt” (an instruction given to an A.I. program), Grathwohl said, reflects the way specialist vocabulary can enter the mainstream, propelled in this case by the enormous volume of conversation about generative A.I. following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022.

So, will our machine overlords ever play a role in selecting the Word of the Year?

“It would not be an illogical step if we’re looking to validate our models,” Grathwohl said. “Large language modules have the ability to crunch data a lot more effectively than humans.”

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Questions of royal family racism reignited by pair of high profile names in Dutch translation of book - NBC News - Translation

Questions of racism within the royal family were reignited after King Charles and Catherine, Princess of Wales, were reportedly named in the Dutch version of Omid Scobie’s book "Endgame" as the two people who discussed Prince Archie's skin color, according to the British media.

The alleged discussions are in reference to claims made by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. At the time, Charles held the title of Prince of Wales and Catherine, formerly Kate Middleton, was the Duchess of Cambridge.

Meghan told Winfrey that in the months leading up to Archie's birth, members of the royal family had expressed "concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he is born." She did not reveal names during the interview, and the unknown individuals were dubbed "the royal racists" in the British press and online.

In the English version of Scobie’s book, he alleged that there had been two people involved in the discussions, according to the BBC. He said he knew their identities but could not name them because of legal reasons, the news outlet reported.

Scobie said on BBC Two’s "Newsnight" that he does not know how the names ended up in the Dutch version and that there is a "full investigation" into how it happened. NBC News has not viewed the Dutch or the English copies of the book.

"I'm looking forward to finding out more about it because the English version of the book, the only one I know, the version that I signed off on, that is the book that is out there today," he said. "That's the book that has no names in it."

Buckingham Palace declined to comment Friday, but a royal source said "all options" are being considered.

During the interview with Winfrey, Meghan refused to name the royal family members said to be involved in the discussion, saying it would be very damaging to them. Harry also confirmed that he was questioned about his son's skin tone, but did not identify who made the remarks or when they were made.

In the couple’s Netflix docuseries, Harry said there was a “huge level of unconscious bias” in the royal family.

NBC News has not independently verified that such conversations took place. Shortly after the interview, Buckingham Palace released a statement and said that the issues the couple raised, particularly around race, were "concerning."

The palace said that the family was "saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan," while noting that "some recollections may vary" and the issues will "be addressed by the family privately."

Following the uproar over the book, the Dutch version, titled "Eindstrijd," was temporarily recalled for what publisher Xander Uitgever said was an "error" in the translation. A "rectified edition" would be back in bookstores Dec. 8, the publisher said.

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