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Beyond Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation

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Large-scale social media analysis reveals stakeholder conflicts over machine translation priorities

Researchers analyze 79,286 social media posts from Reddit, Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon (2019–2025) to compare how four communities—AI developers, professional translators, language learners, and language service providers—discuss machine translation. The study finds significant disagreements and polarized sentiments across groups, with AI researchers framing MT as a technical benchmark problem while non-AI users prioritize quality nuances, trust, reliability, and social concerns. The work argues for redirecting MT research toward community-identified needs rather than benchmark performance alone.