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%T Creative and Context-Aware Translation of East Asian Idioms with GPT-4
%A Tang, Kenan
%A Song, Peiyang
%A Qin, Yao
%A Yan, Xifeng
%Y Nakazawa, Toshiaki
%Y Goto, Isao
%S Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2024)
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F tang-etal-2024-creative-context
%X As a type of figurative language, an East Asian idiom condenses rich cultural background into only a few characters. Translating such idioms is challenging for human translators, who often resort to choosing a context-aware translation from an existing list of candidates. However, compiling a dictionary of candidate translations demands much time and creativity even for expert translators. To alleviate such burden, we evaluate if GPT-4 can help generate high-quality translations. Based on automatic evaluations of faithfulness and creativity, we first identify Pareto-optimal prompting strategies that can outperform translation engines from Google and DeepL. Then, at a low cost, our context-aware translations can achieve far more high-quality translations per idiom than the human baseline. We open-source all code and data to facilitate further research.
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%P 1-21

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[Creative and Context-Aware Translation of East Asian Idioms with GPT-4](https://aclanthology.org/2024.wat-1.1) (Tang et al., WAT 2024)

• Creative and Context-Aware Translation of East Asian Idioms with GPT-4 (Tang et al., WAT 2024)

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• Kenan Tang, Peiyang Song, Yao Qin, and Xifeng Yan. 2024. Creative and Context-Aware Translation of East Asian Idioms with GPT-4. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2024), pages 1–21, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.