3 papers
cs.CL2026
Pun Intended: Multi-Agent Translation of Wordplay with Contrastive Learning and Phonetic-Semantic Embeddings
Russell Taylor, Benjamin Herbert, Michael Sana
Translating wordplay across languages has long challenged both professional translators and machine translation systems. We investigate three approaches to translating puns from En…
cs.CL2026
Searching for Sound-Meaning Collisions: Graph-Based Affordance Retrieval and Multi-Evaluator Ranking for Pun Translation at CLEF 2026 JOKER Task 2
Russell Taylor, Adam Brikman, Prateek Awate
Fifteen years ago, Low proposed that pun translators should stop searching for equivalent words and instead search for new points of contact between sound and meaning. In this pape…
cs.CL2025
Pun Intended: Multi-Agent Translation of Wordplay with Contrastive Learning and Phonetic-Semantic Embeddings for CLEF JOKER 2025 Task 2
Russell Taylor, Benjamin Herbert, Michael Sana
Translating wordplay across languages presents unique challenges that have long confounded both professional human translators and machine translation systems. This research propos…