Exploring Document-Level Literary Machine Translation with Parallel Paragraphs from World Literature

1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2022 • Katherine Thai, Marzena Karpinska, Kalpesh Krishna, Bill Ray, Moira Inghilleri, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer

Using Par3, we discover that expert literary translators prefer reference human translations over machine-translated paragraphs at a rate of 84%, while state-of-the-art automatic MT metrics do not correlate with those preferences.

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