CEMT:Controllable Element-Oriented Machine Translation via Structured Linguistic Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models suffer from paraphrasing errors, omissions, or hallucinations when input contains translation-specific elements that require strict preservation or controlled transformation. |
| Approach: | They propose a Controllable Element-Oriented Machine Translation framework that decomposes the translation process into a linguistically grounded analysis, strategy formulation, and final generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the WMT23/24 Chinese–English benchmarks while significantly reducing element-level constraint violations. |
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