3 papers
cs.CL2026
Cultivar: A Contrastive and Locale-Oriented Translation Benchmark for Investigating Contamination and Localisation Robustness
Pinzhen Chen, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Xiaoya Xu +20
Multilingual translation benchmarks are typically sourced in English and translated into other languages, treating language pairs as the unit of evaluation---a design that is prone…
cs.CL2026
PETra: A Multilingual Corpus of Pragmatic Explicitation in Translation
Doreen Osmelak, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Uliana Sentsova +2
Translators often enrich texts with background details that make implicit cultural meanings explicit for new audiences. This phenomenon, known as pragmatic explicitation, has been…
cs.CL2026
Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication
Doreen Osmelak, Yang Xu, Michael Hahn +1
Languages vary widely in how meanings map to word forms. These mappings have been found to support efficient communication; however, this theory does not account for systematic rel…