提升英译印地语中性别信息的可恢复性,解决文化翻译中的保真与流畅性矛盾。
Cultural Fidelity in English-to-Hindi Translation: A Preservation-Fluency Frontier for Gender Recoverability
- 提出两种推理时干预方法,分别针对源文本和现象,保留性别线索。
- 在12类3.7万条数据上测试,某方法使性别恢复准确率从11.07%提至54.47%。
- 适合关注文化敏感性生成、性别平等翻译的研究者与应用开发者。
生成式翻译系统是文化技术,因其决定社会意义线索在特定文化语法系统中的呈现方式。本文研究一种具体的文化翻译成功标准:当英文源文本明确编码性别时,英译印地语应保持该线索的可恢复性,除非源文本本身模糊。我们在涵盖十二类共37,345个实例的基准上评估此标准,发现五个系统常通过作格结构和敬语形式抹除性别信息。为此,我们引入两种机制感知的推理时干预方法:源感知重排序器(SAR)优先选择避免性别中性句法的候选;现象感知重排序器(PAR)即使在保留作格结构时,也通过定向词汇标记维持性别。在GPT-4o-mini和Sarvam上,PAR将目标子集准确率分别从11.07%和15.99%提升至54.47%和49.66%。人工评估显示,PAR使性别保留率从10.3%升至81.3%,但平均流畅性从4.36降至3.37。结果表明,两种干预处于保真与流畅性的权衡前沿,揭示了文化情境化生成需在忠实性、流畅性与风格自然性间做出显式权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Generative translation systems are cultural technologies because they decide how socially meaningful cues are rendered within culturally specific grammatical systems. We study one concrete notion of successful cultural translation: when an English source explicitly encodes gender, an English-to-Hindi translation should preserve the recoverability of that cue unless the source itself is ambiguous. We evaluate this criterion on a 37,345-instance benchmark spanning twelve categories and show that five systems frequently erase gender through ergative and honorific constructions. We then introduce two mechanism-aware inference-time interventions. The first, the Source-Aware Reranker (SAR), prefers candidates that avoid gender-neutralizing syntax. The second, the Phenomenon-Aware Reranker (PAR), preserves gender through targeted lexical marking even when ergative syntax remains. Across GPT-4o-mini and Sarvam, PAR improves target-subset accuracy from 11.07% to 54.47% and from 15.99% to 49.66%, respectively. Human evaluation shows that PAR increases gender preservation from 10.3% to 81.3%, but reduces mean fluency from 4.36 to 3.37. These findings place the two interventions on a preservation and fluency frontier rather than supporting a single dominant solution, and show how culturally situated generation can require explicit tradeoffs among fidelity, fluency, and stylistic naturalness.
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