2 papers
cs.CL2026
Fluency and Faithfulness in Human and Machine Literary Translation
Sarah Griebel, Ted Underwood
Literary translation requires balancing target-language fluency with faithfulness to the source. Recent large language models (LLMs) often produce fluent translations, but it remai…
cs.CL2025
Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
Ted Underwood, Laura K. Nelson, Matthew Wilkens
Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of perio…