I love this, one major friction I’ve seen to human coordination and advancement has been the journals in different languages
Many people don’t notice, but even Wikipedia has no normalization between articles in different languages. The language button there acts like its showing you a translated version of the article but its actually a completely different Encyclopedia and community of editors with no cross reference to the other language’s article and references at all. Articles that are stubs on the English page may be massive fully fleshed out articles in another language, and nothing native to the site or anything I’ve seen will tell you that there is more information in one variant
LLM’s can find the word associations and compare them in all languages, even if it itself doesn't innately know language
and there would be so much low hanging fruit here like this engineer found
> Many people don’t notice, but even Wikipedia has no normalization between articles in different languages. The language button there acts like its showing you a translated version of the article but its actually a completely different Encyclopedia and community of editors with no cross reference to the other language’s article and references at all.
The Wikipedia folks are working on language-independent, machine-readable structured representation of encyclopedic text (probably relying on something very much like frame semantics, via some sort of general compositional structure) in order to address this issue - see Abstract Wikipedia but note that the project is still at a very early, highly experimental stage. LLMs are not considered adequate for this task because they are non-deterministic and not auditable by humans, hence why a different approach is being planned.