3 papers
cs.CL2025
Overestimation in LLM Evaluation: A Controlled Large-Scale Study on Data Contamination's Impact on Machine Translation
Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit, Eleftheria Briakou, Daniel Deutsch +3
Data contamination -- the accidental consumption of evaluation examples within the pre-training data -- can undermine the validity of evaluation benchmarks. In this paper, we prese…
cs.CL2024
On the Implications of Verbose LLM Outputs: A Case Study in Translation Evaluation
Eleftheria Briakou, Zhongtao Liu, Colin Cherry +1
This paper investigates the impact of verbose LLM translations on evaluation. We first demonstrate the prevalence of this behavior across several LLM outputs drawn from the WMT 202…
cs.CL2024
Translating Step-by-Step: Decomposing the Translation Process for Improved Translation Quality of Long-Form Texts
Eleftheria Briakou, Jiaming Luo, Colin Cherry +1
In this paper we present a step-by-step approach to long-form text translation, drawing on established processes in translation studies. Instead of viewing machine translation as a…