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Comparing the Translation Performance among Leading AI Platforms: A Multi-Metric Analysis on Political Texts
Explore how the latest LLMs handle the complexities of political text translation, uncovering key performance differences and strategic implications for enterprise AI adoption.
Executive Impact & Key Findings
This study evaluates the translation performance of four leading LLMs (ChatGPT-01, ChatGPT-03-mini-high, DeepSeek-R1, and Qwen-2.5) on political texts between Chinese and English using BLEU, chrF++, and BERTScore metrics. Findings reveal significant performance differences, with ChatGPT-01 excelling in lexical and semantic accuracy. A consistent performance gap shows better results for Chinese-to-English translations across all models, highlighting systemic issues like data imbalance and linguistic structural differences. The research provides a decision-support basis for model selection in sensitive translation tasks and insights for human-in-the-loop translation system design.
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Highest BERTScore F1 (C2E)
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C2E vs E2C Directionality Confirmed
Deep Analysis & Enterprise Applications
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Methodology
Results Overview
Causal Factors
This study employed a multi-metric framework (BLEU, chrF++, BERTScore) on the United Nations Parallel Corpus (UNPC) to evaluate LLM performance in political text translation. A structured prompting strategy was used, and a total of 50 documents were randomly sampled for bidirectional translation tasks.
LLM Translation Process Flow
Select LLMs (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Qwen)
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Structured Prompting
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Bidirectional Translation (C2E/E2C)
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Multi-Metric Evaluation (BLEU, chrF++, BERTScore)
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Performance Analysis
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Insights & Recommendations
Quantitative analysis using BLEU, chrF++, and BERTScore revealed significant performance differences among models and a consistent directional effect favoring Chinese-to-English (C2E) translations. ChatGPT-01 consistently achieved the highest scores in C2E, while Qwen-2.5 showed strong performance in E2C for character-level metrics. BERTScore showed a narrower semantic quality gap.
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Highest C2E BERTScore F1 (ChatGPT-01)
Performance differences are attributed to model architectures, training data (English-centrism), and optimization objectives. The consistent C2E > E2C asymmetry is due to severe training data imbalance, quality issues in non-English training data ('translationese'), and inherent structural differences between Chinese and English.
The Impact of 'Translationese'
A significant factor contributing to the lower English-to-Chinese (E2C) performance is the presence of 'translationese' in non-English training data. Models learning from such data tend to replicate unnatural phrasing and grammatical structures, thereby degrading the quality of E2C translations. This highlights the need for high-quality, native Chinese corpora in training datasets.
Insight: High-quality, balanced training data is crucial to overcome linguistic biases and improve bidirectional translation performance.
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Phase 1: Assessment & Strategy
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Phase 2: Platform Customization
Fine-tune selected LLMs with domain-specific data (political texts), build custom glossaries and style guides, and establish human-in-the-loop review processes.
Phase 3: Integration & Training
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Phase 4: Monitoring & Optimization
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