AI RESEARCH

Beyond "To whom it may concern": Tailoring Machine Translation to Audience and Intent

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2606.03259v1 Announce Type: new Translation quality depends on purpose: the same source text demands different translations depending on audience, tone, and communicative intent. Yet MT models and metrics treat translation as a fixed mapping from source to target. LLMs enable users to explicitly specify purpose alongside source text, yet this capability has not been evaluated at scale. We