That was the last straw, we need more: Are Translation Systems Sensitive to Disambiguating Context?

1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2023 • Jaechan Lee, Alisa Liu, Orevaoghene Ahia, Hila Gonen, Noah A. Smith

In experiments, we compare MT-specific models and language models for (i) their preference when given an ambiguous subsentence, (ii) their sensitivity to disambiguating context, and (iii) the performance disparity between figurative and literal source sentences.

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