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Translating the Untranslatable: An Operationalizable Ontology for Untranslatability

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arXiv:2606. 17354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Untranslatability, cases where meaning cannot be directly preserved across languages, is well-studied in linguistics but underexplored in NLP.

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