Algorithms and online recommendations threaten to replace them as arbiters of quality. The tide of self-published books threatens to swamp their products.

计算机算法和在线推荐正以一种评判书籍好坏的权威身份威胁他们的地位。

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Some of the publishers’ functions—packaging books and promoting them to shops—are becoming obsolete. Algorithms and online recommendations threaten to replace them as arbiters of quality.

一些出版商打包书籍、书店宣传的功能正逐渐过时，规则系统和网上推荐威胁着要替代他们成为书籍质量的仲裁者。

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Its hard drives are loaded with terabytes of books and information, which Watson searches with thousands of algorithms simultaneously.

它的硬盘包含了几千g的图书和信息，华生将会使用上千种算法同时检索这些信息。

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Michel, 29, and his collaborator, Erez Lieberman Aiden, also of Harvard, have been making headlines from their use of powerful computational algorithms to data-mine archives of books, encyclopedia volumes, and dictionaries going back centuries.

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