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The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure
Niyati Bafna, Tianjian Li, Kenton Murray +4
Multilingual generation with large language models (LLMs) is often of poor quality for mid- to low-resource languages, but the causes for this are not well-understood. We first dem…
Computational Discovery of Chiasmus in Ancient Religious Text
Hope McGovern, Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott
Chiasmus, a debated literary device in Biblical texts, has captivated mystics while sparking ongoing scholarly discussion. In this paper, we introduce the first computational appro…
Characterizing the Effects of Translation on Intertextuality using Multilingual Embedding Spaces
Hope McGovern, Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott
Rhetorical devices are difficult to translate, but they are crucial to the translation of literary documents. We investigate the use of multilingual embedding spaces to characteriz…
DialUp! Modeling the Language Continuum by Adapting Models to Dialects and Dialects to Models
Niyati Bafna, Emily Chang, Nathaniel R. Robinson +4
Most of the world's languages and dialects are low-resource, and lack support in mainstream machine translation (MT) models. However, many of them have a closely-related high-resou…