2 papers
cs.CL2026
No Text Needed: Forecasting MT Quality and Inequity from Fertility and Metadata
Jessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, David Adelani +1
We show that translation quality can be predicted with surprising accuracy \textit{without ever running the translation system itself}. Using only a handful of features, token fert…
cs.CL2025
The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual Tokenization
Jessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim +4
Tokenization inefficiency imposes structural disadvantages on morphologically complex, low-resource languages, inflating compute resources and depressing accuracy. We evaluate 10 l…