# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Bench contribution](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/assessments/bench-contribution/): The mark for the room — arriving with something on the table, and taking somebody else's record apart in a way they can use
- [Specimen log](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/assessments/specimen-log/): One artefact a week, recorded to a standard someone else could re-check, and a mechanism you are willing to be wrong about in writing
- [The exhibit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/assessments/the-exhibit/): The corpus curated for someone who was not in the room, with the exclusions documented alongside what made it onto the wall
- [The reconstruction](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/assessments/the-reconstruction/): One artefact, argued all the way back to the process that made it, with the evidence and the inference kept visibly apart
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [What makes it wrong](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-01/): An error needs a claim behind it — establishing the contract before we argue about the evidence
- [The dictionary as suspect](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-02/): Reading a lookup table backwards from three of its outputs, and the character merger that makes it possible
- [Rules, and a story we cannot source](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-03/): The 1954 demonstration, the 1966 report that ended it, and the anecdote this field repeats about itself without a citation
- [Statistics, and the fluent join](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-04/): Where the training text came from, why the errors moved from the word to the sentence, and how to date an artefact by the shape of its failure
- [The network, and the confident wrong answer](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-05/): The turning point of the semester — fluency and accuracy come apart, and an error stops announcing itself
- [Signage and the state](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-07/): Governance producing translation at scale, and one council sign where no translator was involved at any point
- [The volunteer, and the seam left in](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-08/): Fansubbing, translator's notes and deliberate roughness — the only errors in this course that were chosen
- [Where it costs](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-09/): Two cases where a translation error had a victim, and what that does to the standard of evidence this course has been using
- [The round trip as an instrument](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-10/): Producing error deliberately to measure a system you cannot open
- [The seam closes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/lectures/week-11/): What happens to a method built on visible error when the errors stop being visible
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Aurel Marchetti](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/people/aurel-marchetti/): Bench lead. Built statistical translation systems for a decade, then spent four years reading their complaints inbox.
- [Ines Barrantes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/people/ines-barrantes/): Convenor. Eleven years as a court interpreter before the seam became more interesting to her than the sentence.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/policies/): The rules this course runs on: provenance, photographing other people's signage, late work, and using machine translation in your own submissions.
- [First specimen](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/01-the-specimen/): The opening bench — everyone puts one artefact on the table and learns what a provenance record has to contain before anyone argues about meaning
- [Reconstruct the entry](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/02-reconstruct-the-entry/): Three outputs, one dictionary — working backwards from what a lookup table printed to what it must have contained
- [Trace it back](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/03-trace-it-back/): The field's most repeated anecdote, chased through its citations until they stop — and a written record of where they stopped
- [Find the seam](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/04-find-the-seam/): Locating the phrase boundary inside an error that reads fluently for six words and then does not
- [Starve it](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/05-starve-it/): Feeding a neural system input it has nothing for, and recording what it produces instead of nothing
- [Field week](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/06-collection-protocol/): No lecture — the collection protocol, and then the room empties and everyone goes out and uses it
- [Read the standard against the sign](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/07-read-the-standard/): A national signage standard on one side of the table, a sign that ignores it on the other, and the question of who is answerable
- [Annotate, then remove](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/08-annotate-and-remove/): Subtitling a clip with everything a fansub would keep, then stripping it back to what a commercial release would allow
- [What stays out of the exhibit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/09-what-stays-out/): The bench where the course decides, out loud, which specimens it is not willing to display and why
- [Round trip](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/10-round-trip/): Making errors on purpose under controlled conditions, and finding the point where a chain of translations stops changing
- [Try the method on something fluent](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/11-try-the-method/): The last working bench — running the semester's reconstruction on output that no longer looks wrong, and recording how far it gets
- [The exhibit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/sessions/12-the-exhibit/): No lecture — the room becomes the display, and every card on the wall carries the provenance the semester has been arguing about
- [出口 / EXPORT](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/chukou-export/): An exit sign that offers the wrong sense of a word which has two, with no simplification and no machine anywhere in the story
- [The dried goods aisle](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/dried-goods/): The same merger as the duck, in a supermarket rather than a restaurant, which is what makes it useful — one mechanism, two registers
- [The merged character](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/gan-the-merged-character/): A menu item in which a character merger, a frequency-ranked lookup and no context at all combine into the most reproduced sign in this field
- [Intoxicado](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/intoxicado/): One word, taken in the wrong sense in a Florida emergency room in 1980, and the reason the register of this course changes in week 9
- [The Swansea road sign](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/swansea-out-of-office/): A bilingual road sign whose Welsh half was an automatic email reply, printed, installed, and photographed before anyone who read Welsh saw it
- [The Chevrolet Nova](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/the-chevrolet-nova/): A branding disaster that is taught in marketing courses and did not happen, included here for exactly that reason
- [The vodka is good but the meat is rotten](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-avaai666/specimens/the-vodka-and-the-meat/): The most repeated anecdote in machine translation, carried for seventy years without a system, a date, or a witness attached to it