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    <abstract>This paper describes our constrained-track Chinese-to-English submission to the WMT 2026 video subtitle translation shared task, entered under the team name PeloTranslate.\par We introduce a text-only system that translates Chinese video subtitles into English using two open-weight models under a 20B parameter budget. A 7B translation-specialized model generates English candidates, while a quantized 12B instruction-tuned model selects candidates and audits the selected line against eight subtitle-specific accuracy checks, one check per model call. A skeptical second pass re-verifies every flag, and a confirmed error is turned into a short correction instruction and sent back to the translation model for guided retranslation. Deterministic code then enforces character-name consistency and line layout and rebuilds each SRT file with its original indices and timestamps.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Translator–Critic System for Chinese-to-English Subtitle Translation
%A Yekkisetty, Aaryan
%Y Haddow, Barry
%Y Kocmi, Tom
%Y Koehn, Philipp
%Y Monz, Christof
%S Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
%D 2026
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Budapest, Hungary
%@ 979-8-89176-474-3
%F yekkisetty-2026-translator
%X This paper describes our constrained-track Chinese-to-English submission to the WMT 2026 video subtitle translation shared task, entered under the team name PeloTranslate.\par We introduce a text-only system that translates Chinese video subtitles into English using two open-weight models under a 20B parameter budget. A 7B translation-specialized model generates English candidates, while a quantized 12B instruction-tuned model selects candidates and audits the selected line against eight subtitle-specific accuracy checks, one check per model call. A skeptical second pass re-verifies every flag, and a confirmed error is turned into a short correction instruction and sent back to the translation model for guided retranslation. Deterministic code then enforces character-name consistency and line layout and rebuilds each SRT file with its original indices and timestamps.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.208/
%P 2637-2651

Markdown (Informal)

[A Translator–Critic System for Chinese-to-English Subtitle Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.208/) (Yekkisetty, WMT 2026)

• A Translator–Critic System for Chinese-to-English Subtitle Translation (Yekkisetty, WMT 2026)

ACL

• Aaryan Yekkisetty. 2026. A Translator–Critic System for Chinese-to-English Subtitle Translation. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation, pages 2637–2651, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.