Machine Translation
Machine translation (MT) aims to automatically translate text between languages, with current research heavily focused on leveraging large language models (LLMs) and exploring various architectures like encoder-decoder and decoder-only models. Key areas of investigation include improving translation quality, particularly for low-resource languages and specialized domains like medicine, mitigating biases (e.g., gender bias), and enhancing evaluation methods beyond simple correlation with human judgments. These advancements have significant implications for cross-cultural communication, information access, and the development of more equitable and effective multilingual technologies.
Papers
SpeechQE: Estimating the Quality of Direct Speech Translation
HyoJung Han, Kevin Duh, Marine Carpuat
Current State-of-the-Art of Bias Detection and Mitigation in Machine Translation for African and European Languages: a Review
Catherine Ikae, Mascha Kurpicz-Briki
CRAT: A Multi-Agent Framework for Causality-Enhanced Reflective and Retrieval-Augmented Translation with Large Language Models
Meiqi Chen, Fandong Meng, Yingxue Zhang, Yan Zhang, Jie Zhou
Instruction-Tuned LLMs Succeed in Document-Level MT Without Fine-Tuning -- But BLEU Turns a Blind Eye
Yirong Sun, Dawei Zhu, Yanjun Chen, Erjia Xiao, Xinghao Chen, Xiaoyu Shen
We Augmented Whisper With kNN and You Won't Believe What Came Next
Maya K. Nachesa, Vlad Niculae
GrammaMT: Improving Machine Translation with Grammar-Informed In-Context Learning
Rita Ramos, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Maartje ter Hoeve, Natalie Schluter
How Good Are LLMs for Literary Translation, Really? Literary Translation Evaluation with Humans and LLMs
Ran Zhang, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger
Analyzing Context Contributions in LLM-based Machine Translation
Emmanouil Zaranis, Nuno M. Guerreiro, André F. T. Martins
On Creating an English-Thai Code-switched Machine Translation in Medical Domain
Parinthapat Pengpun, Krittamate Tiankanon, Amrest Chinkamol, Jiramet Kinchagawat, Pitchaya Chairuengjitjaras, Pasit Supholkhan, Pubordee Aussavavirojekul, Chiraphat Boonnag, Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, Hirunkul Phimsiri, Boonthicha Sae-jia, Nattawach Sataudom, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Peerat Limkonchotiwat