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
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…
cs.CL2025
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…