3 papers
cs.CL2026
Translating the Untranslatable: An Operationalizable Ontology for Untranslatability
Jacob Bremerman, Brihi Joshi, Hirona Arai +2
Untranslatability, cases where meaning cannot be directly preserved across languages, is well-studied in linguistics but underexplored in NLP. As machine translation (MT) systems i…
cs.CL2026
DRInQ: Evaluating Conversational Implicature with Controlled Context Variation
Hirona Jacqueline Arai, Xiang Ren
Human conversation relies heavily on conversational implicature, in which speakers convey meanings that are suggested rather than explicitly stated. Although recent large language…
cs.CV2025
Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References?
Dhananjay Ashok, Ashutosh Chaubey, Hirona J. Arai +2
Through a controlled study, we identify a systematic deficiency in the multimodal grounding of Vision Language Models (VLMs). While VLMs can recall factual associations when provid…