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  1. BaatCheet: A Multilingual Corpus for Dialogue Translation in Indian Languages

    Sep 27, 2026Priyanka Dasari, Yuvrajsinh D. Bodana, Vandan Mujadia +3Translation QualityMultilingual Benchmark

    Language Technologies Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad, India

  2. Fine-Tuning LLMs for Translation: General Forgetting Mitigation Does Not Preserve MT-Specific Instruction Following

    Sep 23, 2026Niklas Scholz, David Thulke, Abdallah Nasir +3Large Language Model Fine-TuningMachine Translation

    AppTek GmbH, Aachen, Germany · Machine Learning and Human Language Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany · Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan

  3. Evaluating Communicative Success in Machine-Translated Conversation

    Sep 17, 2026Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Alice OhTranslation QualityMultilingual Agents

    School of Computing, KAIST

  4. Right Tool, Right Job: Native-Language Evaluation, Tokenizer Sensitivity, and Methodological Findings from a French-Only BabyLM

    Sep 15, 2026Adam Zachary Wasserman, David BeaucheminLegal Natural Language Processing BenchmarksMotion-Language Alignment

    1Open Honest Foundation · 2Group for Research in Artificial Intelligence of Laval University (GRAIL), Université Laval, Québec, Canada

  5. Translating the Translator: Decomposing the Cost of English-Forced Inter-Agent Communication

    Sep 14, 2026Kushagra Agrawal, Yuming Feng, Man-Fai LeungMultilingual AgentsTranslation Quality

    Faculty of Science and Engineering Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland · School of Computer Science and Engineering Chongqing Sanxia University of Science and Technology Chongqing, China · School of Computing and Information Science Faculty of Science and Engineering Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, UK

  6. GenOR-Twin: A Semantic Middleware for Integrating Operational Discourse with Mathematical Optimization

    Sep 14, 2026Rahimeh Neamatian Monemi, Shahin Gelareh, Lubin Cui +1OrchestrationTwins

    Sharkey Predictim Globe · Département R&T, IUT de Béthune, Université d’Artois, F-62000 Béthune, France · Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE-PESC, P.O. Box 68511, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-972, Brazil +1

  7. Can We Triage LLM Translation Errors in Classical Texts Without Human References? Source Novelty, GEMBA Scoring, and Budgeted Review through Pali-to-English Translation

    Sep 14, 2026Máté MetzgerMachine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    Independent Researcher, Hungary

  8. TransClean: A Benchmark for Detecting and Extracting Clean Translations from Large Language Model Outputs

    Sep 11, 2026Shenbin Qian, Yves ScherrerTranslation QualityClear

    Language Technology Group, Department of Informatics University of Oslo, Norway

  9. Improving Term Evaluation in Machine Translation: Variation Matters

    Sep 8, 2026Nicolas Dahan, Ziqian Peng, François Yvon +1Machine Translation QualityMachine Translation

    MLIA, ISIR, ALMAnaCH · Inria, Paris, France · MLIA +3

  10. Better Decomposition, Free Aggregation: A Synthesizer-Folding Framework for Multilingual Multi-Hop Question Answering

    Aug 13, 2026Yilin Wang, Yuchun Fan, Weidong Bao +5Cross-Lingual ConsistencyTranslation Quality

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Yunnan Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

  11. Failure-Aware Long-Form Translation: Design and Implementation of a Recoverable LLM Translation System

    Aug 10, 2026Yanlin YuTranslation QualityLarge Language Models Fail

    University of Tsukuba, Japan · Doctoral Program in International Public Policy · Degree Programs in Humanities and Social Sciences

  12. How Far Do Simple Transformations Translate Across Text Embedding Models?

    Aug 6, 2026Sid Ali Hamideche, Louis-Adrien Dufrène, Quentin Lampin +1Text EmbeddingsTransform Concepts

    Orange Research · Orange

  13. Task-Conditional Flow Matching for Balanced Multilingual Text Embedding Adaptation

    Aug 6, 2026Tirth Bhatt, Naren Kumar S, Mayank SinghMultilingual Language ModelsLarge Language Model Adaptation

    LINGO Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

  14. SCP-NL2TL: Selective Conformal Prediction with Semantic Verification for Natural Language to Temporal Logic Specifications

    Aug 5, 2026Yixuan Wang, Licheng Luo, Yu Fu +3Signal Temporal LogicNatural Language

    University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA · City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  15. Analysis of Numerical Localisation in LLM Translations

    Aug 5, 2026Patrizia KayeTranslation QualityLocalization

    University of Bath

  16. Searching for Sound-Meaning Collisions: Graph-Based Affordance Retrieval and Multi-Evaluator Ranking for Pun Translation at CLEF 2026 JOKER Task 2

    Aug 5, 2026Russell Taylor, Adam Brikman, Prateek AwateTranslation QualityLanguage Pairs

    Georgia Institute of Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

  17. Looking under the Wrong Lamppost: On the Limitations of Automated Translation Quality Estimation

    Aug 4, 2026Serge Gladkoff, Angelika Vaasa, Sue Ellen Wright +2Machine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    Logrus Global LLC · European Parliament, DG for Translation and Clear Language · Kent State University +2

  18. Predicting Multilingual Classification and Translation Performance of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Alignment \unicodex2013\unicode{x2013} Is English Enough?

    Aug 4, 2026Adnan Al Ali, Kathy Hämmerl, Jindřich Libovický +1Translation QualityUnicode U+2014

    Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Czech Republic · Technical University of Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning

  19. Studying quantization trade-offs for efficient inference deployment in machine translation

    Jul 31, 2026Jim Zhao, Sohir Maskey, Koen Oostermeijer +2Large Language Model QuantizationLLM Inference Optimization

    University of Basel · Aleph Alpha Research · Graphcore

  20. Cross-Lingual Transfer for Machine Translation in Turkic Languages

    Jul 31, 2026Omer Burak Cinar, Mehmet Mert Dalkilic, Cagri ToramanCross-Lingual TransferMachine Translation

    Middle East Technical University · Computer Engineering Department

  21. Translation with Thought: Difficulty-Adaptive Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Domain Machine Translation

    Jul 31, 2026Yongshi Ye, Biao Fu, Chongxuan Huang +2Machine TranslationTranslation Quality

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University · School of Informatics, Xiamen University · Key Laboratory of Digital Protection and Intelligent Processing of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Fujian and Taiwan (Xiamen University), Ministry of Culture and Tourism

  22. Mixture-of-Translators: Translating KV Caches Across Heterogeneous Large Language Models

    Jul 31, 2026Jin-woo Lee, Minkyung Song, Junghyun Oh +4Key-Value CacheTranslation Quality

    Chungnam National University · KISTI

  23. On the Systematic Challenges of Culturally Loaded Machine Translation: Dream of the Red Chamber as the Cultural Lens

    Jul 22, 2026Yiming Wang, Jiayuan DiMachine Translation QualityMachine Translation

    School of Foreign Languages, East China University of Science and Technology

  24. The Price of Reasoning: Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation

    Jul 21, 2026Michael Jungo, Aixiu AnNeural Machine TranslationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    AIBEX, University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland · iCoSys, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Fribourg, Switzerland

  25. The Nuts and Bolts of Natural Language to SQL Translation: A Systematic Analysis of Model Pipeline Optimisation Approaches and their Interactions

    Jul 12, 2026Filip Klubicka, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, Sneha Rautmare +3Text-To-SqlSql

    ADAPT Research Centre Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland · Huawei Ireland Research Centre Dublin, Ireland

  26. Workload-Driven Optimization for On-Device Real-Time Subtitle Translation

    Jul 10, 2026Tsz-To WongTranslation QualitySmall Large Language Models

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  27. When Simpler Is Better: Evaluating Translation Pipelines for Medieval Latin Manuscripts

    Jul 4, 2026Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, Md. Easin Arafat, Tamás Gábor Orosz +1Machine TranslationOptical Character Recognition

    Eötvös Loránd University · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

  28. The Role of Prompt Language and Translation-Theory-Driven Prompts in Large Language Models: A Case Study on Spanish-Chinese Journalistic Translation

    Jul 3, 2026Haohong Lai, Weijia LiMachine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Autonomous University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

  29. Learned Coordination Conventions in Cooperative MARL: Measuring the Translation Gap Between Theory-Informed Roles and Learned Routing

    Jun 28, 2026Yoosung HongGlobal CoordinationCoordination

    Independent Researcher

  30. Which Tokens Need Context? A Reference-Based Analysis of Translation Responsibility Using Fertility and Entropy

    Jun 28, 2026Ramakrishna Appicharla, Baban Gain, Santanu Pal +1Machine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India · 2Wipro AI Lab45, Bengaluru, India

  31. Conversational Domain Adaptation of IndicTrans2 across 21 Indic Languages via Experience Replay and Model Soups

    Jun 27, 2026Aditya Pratap SinghTranslation QualityConversational Context

  32. Machine Translation and Post-Editing: Comparative Evaluation of Different MT Systems and Post-Editor Groups in Specialised Translation

    Jun 22, 2026Joachim Minder, Alexandra Mestivier, Natalie KüblerMachine TranslationTranslation Quality

    ALTAE, CLILLAC-ARP · Université Paris Cité, ALTAE, F-75013 Paris, France · ALTAE

  33. Evaluating Large Language Models for Hausa and Fongbe Machine Translation: Benchmarks, Failures, and Metric Reliability

    Jun 20, 2026Mahounan Pericles Adjovi, Roald Eiselen, Prasenjit MitraMachine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Kigali, Rwanda · North-West University, South Africa

  34. Translating the Untranslatable: An Operationalizable Ontology for Untranslatability

    Jun 15, 2026Jacob Bremerman, Brihi Joshi, Hirona Arai +2Translation QualityOntology

    University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

  35. How Far Can Machine Translation Quality Take You? Extrinsic Discourse Evaluation in Goal-Oriented Setups

    Jun 15, 2026Wafaa Mohammed, Kata Naszadi, Vlad NiculaeMachine Translation QualityMachine Translation

    Language Technology Lab, University of Amsterdam

  36. Evaluating and Preserving Lexical Stress in English-to-Chinese Speech-to-Speech Translation

    Jun 13, 2026Yuchen Song, Xi Chen, Mingze Li +1Speech TranslationTranslation Quality

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, China

  37. Lius: Translation Model Based Instructional Lingustic Using Continual Instruction Tuning In Kupang Malay

    Jun 10, 2026Joanito Agili Lopo, Yunita Sari, Guntur Budi HerwantoTranslation QualityLinguistics

    Department of Computer Science and Electronics Universitas Gadjah Mada

  38. Beyond Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation

    Jun 8, 2026Yujun Wang, Ehud Reiter, Shimei Pan +2Machine TranslationTranslation Quality

    The Aberdeen NLP Research Group University of Aberdeen, UK · University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA · University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

  39. Translate-R1: Cost-Aware Translation Tool Use via Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 5, 2026Pratik Jayarao, Chaitanya Dwivedi, Himanshu Gupta +5Translation QualityMachine Translation Quality

    Amazon Stores Foundation AI

  40. Large Language Models are Perplexed by some Political Parties

    Jun 4, 2026Paul Lerner, François YvonLarge Language Model BiasPolitical Discourse

    Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR 75005, Paris, France

  41. Beyond "To whom it may concern": Tailoring Machine Translation to Audience and Intent

    Jun 2, 2026Raphael Merx, Ekaterina Vylomova, Trevor CohnMachine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    1The University of Melbourne · 2Google

  42. Benchmarking Speech-to-Speech Translation Models

    Jun 2, 2026Alkis Koudounas, Hayato Futami, Quentin Jodelet +3Speech TranslationMultilingual Benchmark

    Sony Group Corporation, Japan · Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  43. From Outliers to Errors: Auditing Pali-to-English LLM Translations with Multi-Reference Adjudication

    May 31, 2026Máté Metzger, Nadnapang Phophichit, Hansa DhammahasoTranslation QualityModel Auditing

    Independent Researcher, Hungary · Nibbana Meditation Centre, Thailand

  44. AfriScience-MT: Towards Decolonizing Science in Africa through Text Translation

    May 28, 2026Idris Abdulmumin, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +11African LanguagesMachine Translation Quality

    Data Science for Social Impact, University of Pretoria · Masakhane Research Foundation · Imperial College London +9

  45. Cultural Fidelity in English-to-Hindi Translation: A Preservation-Fluency Frontier for Gender Recoverability

    May 26, 2026Samyak Savi, Chavi Gupta, Shreyas Gantayet +2Translation QualityGender

    BITS Pilani

  46. Translators as Invisible Teachers of AI: Copyright, Translation Memory, and the Political Economy of Linguistic Data

    May 24, 2026Masaru YamadaTranslation QualityCopyright Defenses

    College and Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University

  47. Smarter edits? Post-editing with error highlights and translation suggestions

    May 20, 2026Fleur V. J. van Tellingen, Gautam Ranka, Dora Žugčić +4Machine Translation QualityTranslation Quality

    1Leiden University Centre for Linguistics · 2Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology · Department of Bionanoscience, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology +2

  48. BabelDOC: Better Layout-Preserving PDF Translation via Intermediate Representation

    May 11, 2026Qi Yang, Xiangyao Ma, Xiao Wang +2Translation QualityDocumentation

    School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China · Funstory.ai Limited, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  49. The Translation Tax Is Not a Scalar: A Counterfactual Audit of English-Source Cue Inheritance in Chinese Multilingual Benchmarks

    May 8, 2026Zezheng Lin, Fengming Liu, Handi LiTranslation QualityMultilingual Benchmark

  50. Beyond Semantics: Measuring Fine-Grained Emotion Preservation in Small Language Model-Based Machine Translation

    Apr 30, 2026Dawid Wisniewski, Igor CzudyNeural Machine TranslationMachine Translation

    Pozna´n University of Technology

  51. RouteLMT: Learned Sample Routing for Hybrid LLM Translation Deployment

    Apr 24, 2026Yingfeng Luo, Hongyu Liu, Dingyang Lin +6Large Language Model RoutingTranslation Quality

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · NiuTrans Research, Shenyang, China

  52. Exploring Language-Agnosticity in Function Vectors: A Case Study in Machine Translation

    Apr 21, 2026Nurkhan Laiyk, Gerard I. Gállego, Javier Ferrando +1Multilingual Language ModelsTranslation Quality

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Cantina Labs

  53. Who Watches the Watchmen? Humans Disagree With Translation Metrics on Unseen Domains

    Apr 19, 2026Finn Schmidt, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas +1Machine Translation QualityMachine Translation

    University of Göttingen, Germany

  54. The impact of postediting on AI generative translation in Yemeni context: Translating literary prose by ChatGPT

    Apr 17, 2026Nasim Al-wagieh, Mohammed Q. ShormaniTranslation QualityLiterature

    Ibb University

  55. Fabricator or dynamic translator?

    Apr 16, 2026Lisa Vasileva, Karin SimNeural Machine TranslationLarge Language Models Fail

    Language Weaver

  56. XQ-MEval: A Dataset with Cross-lingual Parallel Quality for Benchmarking Translation Metrics

    Apr 16, 2026Jingxuan Liu, Zhi Qu, Jin Tei +3Machine Translation QualityMultilingual Benchmark

    Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. · Fudan University, China.

  57. A technology-oriented mapping of the language and translation industry: Analysing stakeholder values and their potential implication for translation pedagogy

    Mar 12, 2026María Isabel Rivas Ginel, Janiça Hackenbuchner, Alina Secară +2Human ValuesTranslation Quality

    Dublin City University · Ghent University · University of Vienna +2

  58. Is Knowledge Distillation Actually Greener? A Case Study in Machine Translation

    Feb 10, 2026Joseph Attieh, Timothee Mickus, Anne-Laure Ligozat +2Knowledge DistillationMachine Translation

    University of Helsinki · Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN

  59. From Representation to Enactment: The ABC Framework of the Translating Mind

    Nov 20, 2025Michael Carl, Takanori Mizowaki, Aishvarya Raj +4Theory-Of-Mind ReasoningTranslation Quality

    Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology, Kent State University, USA · Rikkyo University, Tokyo · Independent researcher, London +1

  60. Translationese as a Rational Response to Translation Task Difficulty

    Date pendingMaria KunilovskayaTranslation QualityCross-Lingual Transfer

    University of Technology Nuremberg · Department of Language Science and Technology, Saarland University