Papers by Sherrie Shen
Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine Translation (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to explicitating culturally-embedded meaning have focused on in-text solutions, overlooking paratextual apparatus in the footnotes and endnotes employed by professional translators. |
| Approach: | They formalize Genette's (1987) theory of paratexts and evaluate expert-aligned paratext models . they find that LLM-generated paratext improves audience comprehension . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the comprehension of the Chinese short story Liaozhai by using human evaluations. |