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What is the Best Way for ChatGPT to Translate Poetry?

arXiv 2406.03450 ↗First posted 5 Jun 2024cs.CL cs.AIcited by 14

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Abstract (arXiv)

Machine translation (MT) has historically faced significant challenges when applied to literary works, particularly in the domain of poetry translation. The advent of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT holds potential for innovation in this field. This study examines ChatGPT's capabilities in English-Chinese poetry translation tasks, utilizing targeted prompts and small sample scenarios to ascertain optimal performance. Despite promising outcomes, our analysis reveals persistent issues in the translations generated by ChatGPT that warrant attention. To address these shortcomings, we propose an Explanation-Assisted Poetry Machine Translation (EAPMT) method, which leverages monolingual poetry explanation as a guiding information for the translation process. Furthermore, we refine existing evaluation criteria to better suit the nuances of modern poetry translation. We engaged a panel of professional poets for assessments, complemented evaluations by using GPT-4. The results from both human and machine evaluations demonstrate that our EAPMT method outperforms traditional translation methods of ChatGPT and the existing online systems. This paper validates the efficacy of our method and contributes a novel perspective to machine-assisted literary translation.

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  1. 2025Benchmarking the Detection of LLMs-Generated Modern Chinese Poetrycited by 10
  2. 2025Probing Semantic Alignment, Lexical Invariance, and Syntactic Influence in LLM Metaphor Processingcited by 5
  3. 2026Preconditioned Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Debiasing in Narrative Generationcited by 5
  4. 2026Can ChatGPT Really Understand Modern Chinese Poetry?cited by 4
  5. 2026Exploring the Capability Boundaries of LLMs in Mastering of Chinese Chouxiang Languagecited by 2
  6. 2025Classic4Children: Adapting Chinese Literary Classics for Children with Large Language Modelcited by 1
  7. 2025MetricalARGS: A Taxonomy for Studying Metrical Poetry with LLMscited by 1
  8. 2026Who Wrote This Line? Evaluating the Detection of LLM-Generated Classical Chinese Poetrycited by 1
  9. 2026Seeing the Poem: Image-Semantic Detection of AI-Generated Modern Chinese Poetry with MLLMscited by 1
  10. 2026A Heuristic Perspective on Debiasing Language Modelscited by 1
  11. 2026Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prosecited by 0
  12. 2026Poller: Are LLMs Suitable for Evaluating the Poetry Understanding Task?cited by 0
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  1. 2026Do Large Language Models Perform Well on Comprehending Poetic Logic in Modern Chinese Poetry?cited by 0
  2. 2026Acmite: Mitigating Gender Bias in LLMs through Concept-Guided Mutual Informationcited by 0