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Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance
David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry +3
Large language models (LLMs) that have been trained on multilingual but not parallel text exhibit a remarkable ability to translate between languages. We probe this ability in an i…
Language Models are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners
Freda Shi, Mirac Suzgun, Markus Freitag +9
We evaluate the reasoning abilities of large language models in multilingual settings. We introduce the Multilingual Grade School Math (MGSM) benchmark, by manually translating 250…
Original or Translated? A Causal Analysis of the Impact of Translationese on Machine Translation Performance
Jingwei Ni, Zhijing Jin, Markus Freitag +2
Human-translated text displays distinct features from naturally written text in the same language. This phenomena, known as translationese, has been argued to confound the machine…
Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation
Belén Saldías, George Foster, Markus Freitag +1
Improvements in text generation technologies such as machine translation have necessitated more costly and time-consuming human evaluation procedures to ensure an accurate signal.…