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LLM-based Machine Translation and Summarization for Latin

Date

Date

Date
2024
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Volk, M., Fischer, D. P., Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., & Ströbel, P. (2024). LLM-based Machine Translation and Summarization for Latin (R. Sprugnoli & M. Passarotti, Eds.).

Abstract

Abstract

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation of machine translation for Latin. We tested multilingual Large Language Models, in particular GPT-4, on letters from the 16th century that are in Latin and Early New High German. Our experiments include translation and cross-language summarization for the two historical languages into modern English and German. We show that LLM-based translation for Latin is clearly superior to previous approaches. We also show that LLM-based paraphrasing of Latin paragraphs from the historical letters produces Englis

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Event Title

Event Title

Event Title
Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages -- LT4HALA (at LREC/COLING)

Event Location

Event Location

Event Location
Torino

Event Start Date

Event Start Date

Event Start Date
2024-05-25

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Event End Date
2024-05-25

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Keywords

Large Language Models, Machine Translation, Latin, Early New High German, GPT

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English

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2024-05-02

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547 since deposited on 2024-05-02
516last week
Acq. date: 2025-11-12

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720 since deposited on 2024-05-02
717last week
Acq. date: 2025-11-12

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Volk, M., Fischer, D. P., Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., & Ströbel, P. (2024). LLM-based Machine Translation and Summarization for Latin (R. Sprugnoli & M. Passarotti, Eds.).

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