使用 GPT-4 对东亚习语进行创造性且语境感知的翻译
Creative and Context-Aware Translation of East Asian Idioms with GPT-4
AI总结：
本文研究东亚习语翻译难题，通过自动评估忠实度与创造性，发现 GPT-4 的帕累托最优提示策略优于 Google 和 DeepL，并能低成本生成远超人类基线的高质量语境感知译文。
摘要：
作为一种比喻性语言，东亚习语将丰富的文化背景浓缩在寥寥几个字之中。翻译这类习语对人类译者而言颇具挑战性，他们往往不得不从现有候选译法列表中选择一种语境感知的翻译。然而，即便对专业译者来说，编纂候选译法词典也需要耗费大量时间与创造力。为减轻这一负担，我们评估了 GPT-4 是否能够帮助生成高质量翻译。基于对忠实度和创造性的自动评估，我们首先识别出若干帕累托最优的提示策略，这些策略的表现优于 Google 和 DeepL 的翻译引擎。随后，以较低成本，我们的语境感知翻译能够在每条习语上获得远多于人类基线的高质量译文。我们开源了全部代码和数据，以促进后续研究。
英文摘要：
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.
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