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Charles Kemp

3 accepted papers

2024

Simpson’s Paradox and the Accuracy-Fluency Tradeoff in Translation

ACL 2024short

A good translation should be faithful to the source and should respect the norms of the target language. We address a theoretical puzzle about the relationship between these objectives. On one hand, intuition and some prior work suggest that accuracy and fluency should trade off against each other,…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

Predicting Human Translation Difficulty Using Automatic Word Alignment

ACL 2023findings

Translation difficulty arises when translators are required to resolve translation ambiguity from multiple possible translations. Translation difficulty can be measured by recording the diversity of responses provided by human translators and the time taken to provide these responses, but these beha…

2015

Material Recognition from Heat Transfer given Varying Initial Conditions and Short-Duration Contact

RSS 2015poster

When making contact with an object, a robot can use a tactile sensor consisting of a heating element and a temperature sensor to recognize the object's material based on conductive heat transfer from the tactile sensor to the object. When this type of tactile sensor has time to fully reheat prior to…

Cited by 61SourcePDFScholar