arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

In the Blind: Building Pseudo-References for MT Evaluation

arXiv:2609.13611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The WMT26 General MT task evaluates systems on 10 language pairs that have no human references (neither translated from scratch nor post-edited from MT...

By Diptesh Kanojia, Chi-kiu Lo, Archchana Sindhujan, Samuel Larkin, Greg Hanneman, Alon Lavie
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

AI translation of literary texts is "fine", but readers still prefer human translations

arXiv:2606.26040v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI translation of literary works is increasingly common. While the content may be rendered adequately, we do not know enough about how readers expe...

By Yves Ferstler, Adam Podoxin, Ty Brassington, Ga\"elle Laperri\`ere, Roman Grundkiewicz, Marie-Jean Meurs, Maite Taboada, Marzena Karpinska
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Refined Assessment for Translation Evaluation: Rethinking Machine Translation Evaluation in the Era of Human-Level Systems

arXiv:2610.33749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As machine translation systems approach human-level quality, traditional evaluation methodologies struggle to detect subtle translation errors. We crit...

By Dmitry Popov, Vladislav Negodin, Ekaterina Enikeeva, Iana Matrosova, Nikolay Karpachev, Max Ryabinin