Bridging Background Knowledge Gaps in Translation with Automatic Explicitation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | despite its potential to help users, NLP research on explicitation is limited because of the lack of adequate evaluation methods. |
| Approach: | They propose automatic methods to generate explicitations from a Wikipedia dataset . they use both intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation to evaluate the system's effectiveness . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system bridges the gap between the source speaker and the target audience . it is effective based on intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation, the authors show . |
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