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    <abstract>Translated texts bear several hallmarks distinct from texts originating in the language (“translationese”). Though individual translated texts are often fluent and preserve meaning, at a large scale, translated texts have statistical tendencies which distinguish them from text originally written in the language and can affect model performance. We frame the novel task of translationese reduction and hypothesize that Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), a graph-based semantic representation which abstracts away from the surface form, can be used as an interlingua to reduce the amount of translationese in translated texts. By parsing English translations into an AMR and then generating text from that AMR, the result more closely resembles originally English text across three quantitative macro-level measures, without severely compromising fluency or adequacy. We compare our AMR-based approach against three other techniques based on machine translation or paraphrase generation. This work represents the first approach to reducing translationese in text and highlights the promise of AMR, given that our AMR-based approach outperforms more computationally intensive methods.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Lost in Translationese? Reducing Translation Effect Using Abstract Meaning Representation
%A Wein, Shira
%A Schneider, Nathan
%Y Graham, Yvette
%Y Purver, Matthew
%S Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2024
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C St. Julian’s, Malta
%F wein-schneider-2024-lost
%X Translated texts bear several hallmarks distinct from texts originating in the language (“translationese”). Though individual translated texts are often fluent and preserve meaning, at a large scale, translated texts have statistical tendencies which distinguish them from text originally written in the language and can affect model performance. We frame the novel task of translationese reduction and hypothesize that Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), a graph-based semantic representation which abstracts away from the surface form, can be used as an interlingua to reduce the amount of translationese in translated texts. By parsing English translations into an AMR and then generating text from that AMR, the result more closely resembles originally English text across three quantitative macro-level measures, without severely compromising fluency or adequacy. We compare our AMR-based approach against three other techniques based on machine translation or paraphrase generation. This work represents the first approach to reducing translationese in text and highlights the promise of AMR, given that our AMR-based approach outperforms more computationally intensive methods.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.45
%P 753-765

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[Lost in Translationese? Reducing Translation Effect Using Abstract Meaning Representation](https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.45) (Wein & Schneider, EACL 2024)

• Lost in Translationese? Reducing Translation Effect Using Abstract Meaning Representation (Wein & Schneider, EACL 2024)

ACL

• Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider. 2024. Lost in Translationese? Reducing Translation Effect Using Abstract Meaning Representation. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 753–765, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.