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Research links translationese to cognitive load in translation tasks

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A new research paper proposes that "translationese," the systematic divergence of translated texts from original target-language works, can be explained by the cognitive load inherent in the translation task itself. Researchers operationalized translationese using an automatic classifier and measured task difficulty through LLM surprisal, syntactic complexity, and semantic alternatives. Their findings, primarily from an English-German corpus, indicate that translation task difficulty, particularly cross-lingual transfer, is a significant predictor of translationese, with source-text syntactic complexity and translation-solution entropy being the strongest indicators. AI

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Research links translationese to cognitive load in translation tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Maria Kunilovskaya ·

    Translationese as a Rational Response to Translation Task Difficulty

    arXiv:2603.12050v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Translations systematically diverge from texts originally produced in the target language, a phenomenon widely referred to as translationese. Translationese has been attributed to production tendencies (e.g. interference, simpli…

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