arXiv:2610.08601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emergency messaging such as extreme-weather reports and earthquake instructions can involve high stakes, to the extent that translation errors can lead...
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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: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.
The paper examines how four stakeholder groups—AI developers, professional translators, language learners, and language service providers—discuss machine translation on social media. Using a dataset of 79,286 posts from Reddit, Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon (2019‑2025), the authors find frequent disagreements and strong conflicts over translation quality, efficiency, and reliability. These conflicts arise because AI communities view the issues as technical, while non‑AI users prioritize quality nuances, time savings, trust, and broader social concerns.
arXiv:2610.35423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator manuals of agricultural implements are delivered in many languages, and the standards require that competent persons review every translation,...