Research on AI Translation in Cross-border E-commerce Scenarios

Journal: Modern Economics & Management Forum DOI: 10.32629/memf.v6i5.4532

Wanmin Zhang, Cui Jing, Wenhai Xu

Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou 571126, Hainan, China

Abstract

This study investigates AI translation technologies, multilingual translations, and ChatGPT re-translation across four major cross-border e-commercial platforms. Through technical parameter comparisons, this paper analyses, by empirical experiments, and examines the technical characteristics of platform-based AI translation, their strategic differences, and ChatGPT's adaptation capabilities. The research further discusses the evolving roles of translators. The results indicate that while these four platforms primarily utilize Neural Machine Translation (NMT) with distinct focuses, ChatGPT demonstrates superior cultural adaptability, whereas the platform-based AI translations excel at commercial narrative alignment. These findings provide valuable references for cross-border e-commercial platforms to enhance translation quality and reconstruct the role of translator.

Keywords

cross-border e-commerce; AI translation; ChatGPT re-translation; multilingual translation; the role of translator

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