@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-reasoning-help, title = "When Does Reasoning Help in Machine Translation? A Hierarchical Analysis of {LRM} Reasoning Traces", author = "Liu, Yuxiang and Luo, Jiaming and Briakou, Eleftheria and Cherry, Colin", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2499/", doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.2499", pages = "56747--56771", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }