2 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
Diverging Preferences: When do Annotators Disagree and do Models Know?
Michael JQ Zhang, Zhilin Wang, Jena D. Hwang +6
We examine diverging preferences in human-labeled preference datasets. We develop a taxonomy of disagreement sources spanning ten categories across four high-level classes and find…