Cultural Fidelity in English-to-Hindi Translation: A Preservation-Fluency Frontier for Gender Recoverability

In three linesStudy on gender preservation in English-to-Hindi translation. Benchmark of 37,345 instances shows GPT-4o-mini and Sarvam frequently erase gender via ergative constructions. Two rerankers (SAR and PAR) improve gender recoverability: PAR increases accuracy from 11-16% to 49-54%, but reduces fluency (4.36→3.37). Reveals preservation-fluency tradeoff.

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