Thomas Rietman

Translating in style: An open-weight alternative to GPT-4 for culturally aligned machine translation

Machine translation systems often preserve meaning but systematically flatten linguistic style, a failure that is most acute when translating into non-Western languages. The RASTA framework of Havaldar et al. (2025a) addresses this through retrieval-augmented stylistic alignment, but relies on GPT-4, a closed, propriet...