Simpson's Paradox and the Accuracy-Fluency Tradeoff in Translation

arXiv:2402.12690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A good translation should be faithful to the source and should respect the norms of the target language. We address a theoretical puzzle about the relationship between these objectives. On one hand, intuition and some prior work suggest that accuracy and fluency should trade off against each other, and that capturing every detail of the source can only be achieved at the cost of fluency. On the other hand, quality assessment researchers often suggest that …

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