Cost-Effective E-Commerce Catalog Translation at Scale Ensuring Named Entity Protection

Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño, Jorge Yero Salazar, Clement Ruin, Alejandro Quintero-Roba, Shangeetha Ravichandran, Jesus Perez-Martin, Pankaj Adsul, Suruchi Garg, Leonardo Lezcano


Abstract
We present an enterprise-grade translation platform for global e-commerce that combines daily batch and real-time API pipelines with optimized T5-based models and a Reference Generator to enforce >99% non-translatable entity preservation. A linguist-driven rule engine and explainable evaluation framework (BLEU, COMET, and a custom e-commerce metric) enable continuous quality improvements. Deployed on GPU-accelerated inference servers and CPU-based processing nodes, our system processes millions of listings per day with sub-second latency and achieves 10×–100× cost savings over general-purpose LLMs for English→Spanish and English→French translation, all while version-tracking every update for robust enterprise rollouts.
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2025.emnlp-industry.81
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
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November
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2025
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Suzhou (China)
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Saloni Potdar, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Sebastien Montella
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1148–1157
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Asier Gutiérrez-Fandiño, Jorge Yero Salazar, Clement Ruin, Alejandro Quintero-Roba, Shangeetha Ravichandran, Jesus Perez-Martin, Pankaj Adsul, Suruchi Garg, and Leonardo Lezcano. 2025. Cost-Effective E-Commerce Catalog Translation at Scale Ensuring Named Entity Protection. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track, pages 1148–1157, Suzhou (China). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cost-Effective E-Commerce Catalog Translation at Scale Ensuring Named Entity Protection (Gutiérrez-Fandiño et al., EMNLP 2025)
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