Graph-Assisted Culturally Adaptable Idiomatic Translation for Indic languages (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a single source idiom can have multiple target-language equivalents depending on cultural references and contextual variations. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive graph neural network-based method that learns intricate mappings between idiomatic expressions and generalizes to both seen and unseen nodes during training. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves translation quality even in resource-constrained settings, facilitating improved idiomatic translation in smaller models. |
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