TEaR: Improving LLM-based Machine Translation with Systematic Self-Refinement (2025.findings-naacl)
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Zhaopeng Feng, Yan Zhang, Hao Li, Bei Wu, Jiayu Liao, Wenqiang Liu, Jun Lang, Yang Feng, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu
| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in Machine Translation (MT). human evaluations reveal that LLM-generated translations still contain various errors. |
| Approach: | They propose a LLM-based self-refinement framework that feeds error information back into LLMs to facilitate self-finement, leading to enhanced translation quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms internal refinement and feedback methods while ensuring a robust translation quality baseline. |
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