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1. Computer Science › Natural Language Processing Techniques

   Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance

   Vilar, Markus, Cherry, Luo, Ratnakar and Foster · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper studies how well the PaLM language model translates, testing ways of choosing prompt examples and comparing the results with state-of-the-art supervised translation systems.

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   1. UncheckedIn prompting PaLM to translate, the paper concludes that the quality of the example translations matters more than other factors in choosing them.“We investigate various strategies for choosing translation examples for few-shot prompting, concluding that example quality is the most important factor.”
   2. UncheckedWith optimised prompts, PaLM's translation performance is impressive but still behind state-of-the-art supervised translation systems.“Using optimized prompts, we revisit previous assessments of PaLM's MT capabilities with more recent test sets, modern MT metrics, and human evaluation, and find that its performance, while impressive, still lags that of state-of-the-art supervised systems.”