Conlang Translator

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  UI

As a CS and linguistics person, making a conlang (nāuode, made language) was just right for me. This hackathon truly began for me after the idea emerged, a translator from English to my conlang Sadzukī. The free, powerful LLMs provided by Palantir analyzing my numerous translations of short stories, poems, and songs I made were able to translate any input I put in!

...Almost. The difficulty of this project was not the code or UI, but the rich, agglutinative, structure of my conlang—with its only 10 verbs and nearly backwards word order compared to English—fighting against the LLM's Eurocentric bias. As of February 2025, 49.4% of web content is in English, followed by 6% Spanish and 5.6% German, giving European languages a significant advantage in the AI realm.

In fighting (taitae, giving a fight) these challenges, I learned so much about optimizing LLMs by smartly preprocessing data, fine-tuning the language model, and even choosing the right model. While my translator is not perfect and makes mistakes all the time, I am very proud with how it turned out!

Built With

• aip
• claude
• palantir