Emergency messaging such as extreme-weather reports and earthquake instructions can involve high stakes, to the extent that translation errors can lead to tragic consequences. The use of machine trans...
arXiv:2610.32842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is essential that we communicate with the entirety of an affected population during a crisis, including those who do not speak a region's dominant l...
arXiv:2607. 00019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper offers a call to action.
arXiv:2602. 13452v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed for crisis preparedness and response, particularly for multilingual communication.
CrisiLangs is a multilingual extension of the CrisiText dataset, adding Italian, Bulgarian, German, and Greek translations of warning messages for 1,000 crisis events, resulting in 5,000 event‑message pairs across five languages. The resource was used to fine‑tune a multilingual model, which outperformed a zero‑shot baseline on ROUGE‑L, BLEU, and BERTScore in every language and configuration. Human preference studies showed that low decoding temperatures were favored across all languages, while the impact of emergency guidelines varied by language.
The paper argues that as Large Language Models transition from chatbots to agentic systems, the current post-hoc interpretability paradigm is insufficient for safe deployment because it cannot audit or intervene before an output is produced. It proposes a shift to generative interpretability, where a model’s inference process inherently exposes semantically meaningful checkpoints that are human-understandable and can be causally intervened upon. The authors illustrate the advantages of this approach and introduce Neuro‑Symbolic Models as a concrete implementation.
The article investigates whether commercial machine translation (MT) tools—Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, GPT, Gemini, and Claude—are ready to support communication during crises or pandemics. Using the TICO-19 dataset, which contains pandemic-related sentences in high-priority low-resource languages, the study evaluates the usability of translations produced by these systems. The goal is to determine how effectively these MT tools can bridge language gaps between governments, aid providers, medical professionals, and affected communities.
arXiv:2601. 15828v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study investigates whether professional translators without prior specialized training can reliably identify short stories generated in Italian by artificial intelligence (AI).
Professional translation is often a team-based process: translators, reviewers, and project managers must coordinate terminology, legal force, and accountability across documents. Yet many LLM-based translation tools treat human corrections as isolated edits.
arXiv:2608. 14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective disaster risk communication is a foundational humanitarian challenge, yet current emergency infrastructure fails to meet the needs of individuals with access and functional needs, including hard-of-hearing individuals, pregnant women, mothers with toddlers, and elderly individuals with dementia.
arXiv:2606. 29727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Professional translation is often a team-based process: translators, reviewers, and project managers must coordinate terminology, legal force, and accountability across documents.
arXiv:2609.35821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disaster social sensing converts public social-media posts into evidence for situational awareness and humanitarian needs, but generative artificial in...