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It would also fail empirically if the proposed preflight does not reduce blinded adjudicated global reversals or missed distinctions relative to glossary-and-source-text practice, or if selections reverse under immaterial annotation changes.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Relative to the located whole-book AI pipeline, literary-translator tool practices, and general translation-process requirements, the remaining testable claim is the value of one connected human-governed control loop: alternative rendering rules are projected through mapped future source contexts; predicted semantic, formal, and voice violations plus uncertainty are tested against declared tolerances before lock; an accountable accept, revise, delay, escalate, or reject decision follows; and later adjudicated conflicts are used specifically to score and recalibrate the forecast.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"The bounded search covered the proposal directly, pre-translation and historical terminology, literary-translator concordance and glossary practices, a current whole-book translation product, general quality-governance combinations, and ISO translation-service requirements. Four retained sources were opened and span four publishers, including two primary studies, one official standard, and one first-party product. No phrase miss was treated as novelty evidence.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"A public-domain short-work crossover is bounded and measurable: fix occurrence annotations and a review rubric, compare two candidate policies with glossary-only decisions, blind policy labels during second-half translation, and score predicted versus adjudicated distinction loss, formal conflict, voice disruption, and global reversals. SRC1 supplies a precedent for passage-level adjudication of repetition, while SRC2 shows that translator workflow and agency must be preserved.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"SRC4 creates strong adjacency by combining whole-book preprocessing, intended glossary renderings, user review, consistency enforcement, and a later motif/voice audit. The proposal remains distinguishable and falsifiable through its multiple-candidate what-if comparison, explicit uncertainty-sensitive tolerance envelope, pre-lock disposition, and prediction-versus-outcome calibration.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"The bounded test can use public-domain source material and nonproduction worksheets, retain translator and reviewer authority, and avoid confidential manuscripts. This is compatible with SRC2's concern for literary-translator agency and SRC3's requirement that translation services meet applicable specifications. Contractual approvals and production lock remain outside the experiment.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"SRC1 directly demonstrates missed cohesive functions in translations of recurrent literary wording. SRC2 shows that literary translators manage repeated words through simple lists and that specialized concordance, terminology, and TM use is limited and workflow-dependent. This supports the recurrence and tooling gap, although the search did not directly quantify late copyedit or typesetting revision costs.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The problem is visible but only partly established. A case study of ten cross-clausal repetitions in Pride and Prejudice reported low rates of satisfying and acceptable renderings and concluded that translators often missed repetition's cohesive functions. A survey and interview study of Finnish literary translators documented simple lists for repeated words, uneven glossary and translation-technology use, and limited adoption of specialized tools. These sources support downstream consistency and distinction risks, but they do not directly measure the claimed cost escalation after manuscript, copyedit, or typesetting lock.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P025","screen_survival":true,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":"No retained source disclosed the complete combination of alternative-policy simulation, uncertainty-sensitive tolerances, a pre-lock human disposition, and forecast-error backtesting.","queries":["literary translator corpus concordance future passages recurring words formal features workflow","translation workflow style guide terminology lock approval revision costly typesetting","literary translation pre-translation analysis recurring motifs lexical choices whole text","translation brief source text analysis prospective translation problems strategy before translation"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":"No exact phrase-level match for the complete proposed control loop was found; 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reported satisfying and acceptable rendering rates were 8.3% and 18.3%.","Repetition can serve functions including refutation and contrast, making mechanical normalization potentially lossy."],"publisher":"David Publishing Company, US-China Foreign Language","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Translation of Cross-Clausal Repetition: A Case Study of Pride and Prejudice","url":"https://www.davidpublisher.com/index.php/Home/Article/index?id=26863.html"},{"claims_supported":["A survey of 72 literary translators and interviews with seven identified from-scratch, translation-memory, and machine-translation post-editing workflows.","Literary translators reported using simple lists for repeated words and names; most glossary users relied on word processors, spreadsheets, or paper.","Prior survey evidence summarized in the article shows limited use of concordancers, terminology tools, and translation memories in literary translation and emphasizes workflow variation and translator agency."],"publisher":"University of Turku / Mikael: Finnish Journal of Translation and Interpreting Studies","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Finnish literary translators' use of translation technology and tools: processes, profiles, and purposes","url":"https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/189666?show=full"},{"claims_supported":["ISO 17100:2015 defines requirements for the core processes, resources, and other aspects of quality translation services.","Translation-service conformity is assessed against applicable client, provider, industry-code, best-practice, or legal specifications.","The standard supplies an official process baseline but its public abstract does not disclose the proposal's literary-rule forecasting loop."],"publisher":"International Organization for Standardization","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","title":"ISO 17100:2015 — Translation services — Requirements for translation services","url":"https://www.iso.org/standard/59149.html"},{"claims_supported":["The product claims to analyze an entire book before translation and produce a blueprint containing section instructions and a glossary with intended translations.","Its workflow lets users review and edit the blueprint, enforces glossary consistency during translation, and leaves suggested changes under user control.","Its post-translation coherence engine claims to audit recurring phrases, themes, motifs, and character voices across the whole manuscript.","The disclosed workflow is close prior art but does not describe alternative-rule simulation, explicit tolerance thresholds, or prediction-error recalibration."],"publisher":"BookTranslate.ai","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","title":"How BookTranslate.ai Works: Our AI Book Translation Process Explained","url":"https://www.booktranslate.ai/how-it-works"}],"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded public-web screen found adjacent prior art and supports only a coarse researchability judgment. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, product efficacy, or realized value. First-party product descriptions establish disclosed features, not validated performance; paywalled standards and unindexed, proprietary, historical, non-English, or unpublished workflows may contain closer matches."}