SubmissionNumber#=%=#3
FinalPaperTitle#=%=#Creative and Context-Aware Translation of East Asian Idioms with GPT-4
ShortPaperTitle#=%=#
NumberOfPages#=%=#21
CopyrightSigned#=%=#Peiyang Song
JobTitle#==#
Organization#==#Peiyang Song, California Institute of Technology. 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Abstract#==#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.
Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Kenan
Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Tang
Author{1}{Email}#=%=#kenantang@ucsb.edu
Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#UC Santa Barbara
Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Peiyang
Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Song
Author{2}{Username}#=%=#psong
Author{2}{Email}#=%=#psong@caltech.edu
Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#California Institute of Technology
Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Yao
Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Qin
Author{3}{Email}#=%=#yaoqin@ucsb.edu
Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#UC Santa Barbara
Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Xifeng
Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Yan
Author{4}{Email}#=%=#xyan@cs.ucsb.edu
Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#UC Santa Barbara

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