历史文化遗产翻译的深层挑战
Translating historical cultural heritage poses profound challenges for machine translation systems due to the acute semantic asymmetry across eras and cultures, where terse classical syntax frequently obscures domain-specific cultural knowledge.
While Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable prowess in generic translation benchmarks, they struggle to negotiate Culturally-Specific Items and diachronic shifts in domain-rich historical texts, such as Yellow River cultural records.
YRC-Bench与三语平行语料库
To bridge this critical gap, we introduce YRC-Bench, the first human-curated, multi-parallel benchmark dedicated to historical heritage translation across Classical Chinese, Modern Chinese, and nine target foreign languages.
YRC-Bench establishes a tri-level parallel corpus incorporating modern explanatory glosses as explicit semantic bridges and operationalizes translation strategies through paired conserved versus substituted CSI variants categorized by cultural translatability.
系统评估与人类偏好审计
- 双向翻译效果提升：Systematic evaluations of nine leading LLMs across bidirectional and bilingual translation directions reveal that leveraging modern Chinese glosses - especially human-curated ones - dramatically elevates both lexical fidelity and semantic adequacy.
- 跨文化偏好显现：Furthermore, multidimensional human preference audits by native experts unveil distinct cross-cultural preferences between Sinographic-tradition and non-Sinographic language groups.