LLMs achieve high-quality translations of Galen’s expository Greek (MQM 95.2/100) but lower and bimodal quality on pharmacological texts (79.9/100), with terminology rarity (corpus frequency) predicting failure at r = -0.97.
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Evaluating LLM-Based Translation of a Low-Resource Technical Language: The Medical and Philosophical Greek of Galen
LLMs achieve high-quality translations of Galen’s expository Greek (MQM 95.2/100) but lower and bimodal quality on pharmacological texts (79.9/100), with terminology rarity (corpus frequency) predicting failure at r = -0.97.