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Yimin Xiao

4 accepted papers

2026

Chinese Two-part Allegorical Sayings Reading Comprehension: Exploration from Reasoning to Metaphor

AAAI 2026technical

The Two-Part Allegorical Saying (TPAS) is a Chinese linguistic phenomenon with a riddle-explanation structure, and an important component of Chinese metaphors. Existing research has primarily used TPAS to assist other semantic tasks, but lacks in-depth exploration of its intrinsic mechanisms: semant

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2025

Toward Machine Translation Literacy: How Lay Users Perceive and Rely on Imperfect Translations

EMNLP 2025

As Machine Translation (MT) becomes increasingly commonplace, understanding how the general public perceives and relies on imperfect MT is crucial for contextualizing MT research in real-world applications. We present a human study conducted in a public museum (n=452), investigating how fluency and

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2023

Physician Detection of Clinical Harm in Machine Translation: Quality Estimation Aids in Reliance and Backtranslation Identifies Critical Errors

EMNLP 2023long main

A major challenge in the practical use of Machine Translation (MT) is that users lack information on translation quality to make informed decisions about how to rely on outputs. Progress in quality estimation research provides techniques to automatically assess MT quality, but these techniques have…

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