Detecting Critical Errors Considering Cross-Cultural Factors in English-Korean Translation

Sugyeong Eo, Jungwoo Lim, Chanjun Park, DaHyun Jung, Seonmin Koo, Hyeonseok Moon, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim


Abstract
Recent machine translation (MT) systems have overcome language barriers for a wide range of users, yet they still carry the risk of critical meaning deviation. Critical error detection (CED) is a task that identifies an inherent risk of catastrophic meaning distortions in the machine translation output. With the importance of reflecting cultural elements in detecting critical errors, we introduce the culture-aware “Politeness” type in detecting English-Korean critical translation errors. Besides, we facilitate two tasks by providing multiclass labels: critical error detection and critical error type classification (CETC). Empirical evaluations reveal that our introduced data augmentation approach using a newly presented perturber significantly outperforms existing baselines in both tasks. Further analysis highlights the significance of multiclass labeling by demonstrating its superior effectiveness compared to binary labels.
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2024.lrec-main.421
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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4705–4716
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Sugyeong Eo, Jungwoo Lim, Chanjun Park, DaHyun Jung, Seonmin Koo, Hyeonseok Moon, Jaehyung Seo, and Heuiseok Lim. 2024. Detecting Critical Errors Considering Cross-Cultural Factors in English-Korean Translation. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 4705–4716, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Detecting Critical Errors Considering Cross-Cultural Factors in English-Korean Translation (Eo et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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