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What does machine translation do to honorific register in Indic languages, and why?

Paper in prep · with Prof. Sudip Naskar's group at Jadavpur University and a doctoral collaborator at TU Munich

Bengali and Hindi mark how formally you address someone in the grammar itself, three ways. English has one “you”. This project measures what translation does to that register.

Method, data and numbers stay private until the paper is public.