Language Is More Than a Translation Problem
AI tools can produce fluent text while missing the social rules, grammatical details and script conventions that make a language feel natural. Babelbench explores how multilingual AI behaves across languages, writing systems and regional conventions, with practical explanations for the people building, evaluating and using these tools.
| Date | Entry | Section |
|---|---|---|
| Formal and Informal You: A Practical Guide to Politeness in Five Languages Formal and informal forms of address communicate social distance, respect and familiarity, and they do not map neatly between languages. | Register and Politeness | |
| Right-to-Left Text in AI Chat: A Guide to Punctuation, Numbers and Mixed Scripts Right-to-left languages require more than reversing the order of displayed characters. | Scripts and Text Direction | |
| Grammatical Gender in AI Translation: How to Avoid Guessing the Speaker's Gender Grammatical gender can force a translation to make distinctions that an English sentence leaves unspecified. | Language Field Notes | |
| Dates, Decimals and Currency in AI Copy: A Practical Locale Formatting Checklist AI-generated copy must follow the conventions of its intended locale, not simply translate the words surrounding a date, number or price. | Locale Formats | |
| Shipping a Character-Driven AI Product Across 11 Languages: A Localization Guide Shipping a character-driven AI product in multiple languages requires more than translating interface labels and dialogue. | Localization Workflows | |
| Transliteration or Translation? A Guide to Personal Names Across Latin, Greek and Cyrillic Scripts Personal names generally need to remain identifiable, even when they move between Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. | Language Field Notes |
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