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# Developing publication multilingualism at PCI

Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud, Marjolaine Hamelin

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Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud, Marjolaine Hamelin. Developing publication multilingualism at PCI. 2024. hal-04727639

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Submitted on 9 Oct 2024

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Figure: Screenshot of a PCI Zoology recommendation page showing the various languages in which the abstract, title and keywords can be read.

When translations are automatically generated, the following warning is displayed: "This is an automatically generated version. The authors and PCI decline all responsibility concerning its content." As soon as the authors edit an automatic translation, it appears as "author generated."

We chose the eight languages now displayed on the PCI websites according to the number of speakers and countries: Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish (by alphabetic order). This list may be updated in the future.

The automatic translations are generated by Google Translate, which currently offers a higher language diversity than other tools such as DeepL for instance. This is not set in stone, and future updates may use other AI-generated translations.

We prefer not to offer the possibility to submit/evaluate articles in languages other than English. The main reason is that articles written in non-English languages can only be evaluated by a fewer number of experts (recommenders, reviewers), those sharing the same language.

This move is a modest but essential step toward multilingualism in science.