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Alvin Grissom II

4 accepted papers

2025

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation

EMNLP 2025

Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and real-world usage, particularly for non-expert users who may struggle to assess translation reliabil

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding

ACL 2025long

NLP research has increasingly focused on subjective tasks such as emotion analysis. However, existing emotion benchmarks suffer fromtwo major shortcomings: (1) they largely rely on keyword-based emotion recognition, overlooking crucial cultural dimensions required fordeeper emotion understanding, an…

2024

Rapidly Piloting Real-time Linguistic Assistance for Simultaneous Interpreters with Untrained Bilingual Surrogates

COLING 2024main

Simultaneous interpretation is a cognitively taxing task, and even seasoned professionals benefit from real-time assistance. However, both recruiting professional interpreters and evaluating new assistance techniques are difficult. We present a novel, realistic simultaneous interpretation task that…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2022

Rare but Severe Neural Machine Translation Errors Induced by Minimal Deletion: An Empirical Study on Chinese and English

COLING 2022main

We examine the inducement of rare but severe errors in English-Chinese and Chinese-English in-domain neural machine translation by minimal deletion of source text with character-based models. By deleting a single character, we can induce severe translation errors. We categorize these errors and comp…