Delu (Daniel) KONG

Delu (Daniel) KONG

He/Him

Lecturer in translation studies and computational linguistics

Publications

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Journal Articles

Unveiling stylometric signatures in translated children’s literature: Peter Pan in Chinese

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026

This study employs a stylometric research design to examine linguistic discrepancies and explore the relationships among three Chinese translations of Peter Pan, identifying the top 10% significant features spanning lexical, syntactic, readability, and N-gram dimensions.

Recommended citation: He, T., Kong, D., & Li, B. (2026). "Unveiling stylometric signatures in translated children's literature: Peter Pan in Chinese." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. (Corresponding author: Delu Kong)
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基于机器学习的政经语篇人机翻译风格研究——以《国富论》中译本为例

Published in 外语导刊, 2025

本文利用机器学习算法，基于自建《国富论》人机多译本平行语料库，通过分类、聚类、特征选择实验，考察人类专家译本与大语言模型机器译本的风格差异。

Recommended citation: 孔德璐. (2025). "基于机器学习的政经语篇人机翻译风格研究——以《国富论》中译本为例." 外语导刊. 48(1).
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新质生产力背景下中国网络文学的国际传播与外译挑战——以《斗破苍穹》为例

Published in 翻译与传播, 2024

本文以《斗破苍穹》为个案，探讨中国网络文学在“新质生产力”背景下的国际传播与外译挑战，分析其全球化路径、文化适配过程及未来融合新兴技术的发展可能性。

Recommended citation: 孔德璐, 李宝虎, 何婷. (2024). "新质生产力背景下中国网络文学的国际传播与外译挑战——以《斗破苍穹》为例." 翻译与传播, (2): 63–74.
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ChatGPT人机对话式翻译研究

Published in 上海理工大学学报（社会科学版）, 2024

聚焦ChatGPT人机对话式翻译，分析其译文特征并通过与以谷歌翻译为代表的神经机器翻译质量对比发现二者差距。

Recommended citation: 李梅, 孔德璐. (2024). "ChatGPT人机对话式翻译研究." 上海理工大学学报（社会科学版）.
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Conference Papers

Can Peter Pan Survive MT? A Stylometric Study of LLMs, NMTs, and HTs in Children’s Literature Translation

Published in CTT Workshop @ MT Summit 2025, arXiv preprint, 2025

A stylometric study of machine vs. human translations of Peter Pan using 447 linguistic features across generic and creative-text dimensions.

Recommended citation: Kong, D., & Macken, L. (2025). "Can Peter Pan Survive MT? A Stylometric Study of LLMs, NMTs, and HTs in Children Literature Translation." CTT Workshop @ MT Summit 2025, arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22038.
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Decoding Machine Translationese in English-Chinese News: LLMs vs. NMTs

Published in MT Summit 2025 (Technical Track), arXiv preprint, 2025

This study explores Machine Translationese (MTese) in English-to-Chinese news translation using classification and clustering with a five-layer feature set.

Recommended citation: Kong, D., & Macken, L. (2025). "Decoding Machine Translationese in English-Chinese News: LLMs vs. NMTs." MT Summit 2025 (Technical Track), arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22050.
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