Confident but Wrong: A Constrained Decoding Diagnostic for Low-Resource Automatic Post-Editing
Automatic Post-Editing (APE) for low-resource languages (LRLs) often fails to improve Machine Translation (MT), and the score alone cannot say why: whether more training would help, or whether the training data is too inconsistent to learn from. We introduce a black-box, inference-time diagnostic that tells these two cases apart without retraining or annotation. It varies an edit-distance penalty $λ$ that drives the model from free editing towards copying the MT, and reads two signals: (1) the shape of the Translation Edit Rate (TER)-vs-$λ$ curve, U-shaped if edits from the model reduce error and monotonically decreasing if none does; and (2) the ordering of constraint variants that trust...
| Authors | Isuru Wijesiri, Nisansa de Silva, Kavindu Warnakulasuriya et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 30 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 30 August 2026 |
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