Publication: Name Consistency in LLM-based Machine Translation of Historical Texts
Name Consistency in LLM-based Machine Translation of Historical Texts
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Fischer, D. P., & Volk, M. (2025, June 27). Name Consistency in LLM-based Machine Translation of Historical Texts. 20th Machine Translation Summit, Genève.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at translating 16th-century letters from Latin and Early New High German to modern English and German. While they perform well at translating well-known historical city names (e.g., Lutetia --> Paris), their ability to handle person names (e.g., Theodor Bibliander) or lesser-known toponyms (e.g., Augusta Vindelicorum --> Augsburg) remains unclear. This study investigates LLM-based translations of person and place names across various frequency bands in a corpus of 16th-century letters. Our results sh
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Fischer, D. P., & Volk, M. (2025, June 27). Name Consistency in LLM-based Machine Translation of Historical Texts. 20th Machine Translation Summit, Genève.
