Smarter edits? Post-editing with error highlights and translation suggestions

Fleur V. J. van Tellingen, Gautam Ranka, Dora Žugčić, Joyce van der Wal, Andrea Camasta +2 more
5/20/2026
cs.CL

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Abstract

As MT quality increases, interest in enhanced post-editing features such as QE-derived error highlights is growing, yet evidence for their usefulness remains limited. In this work, we explore the usefulness of LLM-derived error highlights and correction suggestions based on automatic post-editing (APE). We conduct a study where professional translators (En-Nl) post-edit translations using APE error highlights and correction suggestions and compare productivity, quality and user experience to regular PE and PE with QE-derived highlights. While no condition yielded productivity or quality gains compared to regular PE, APE highlights were better received than QE-derived highlights, and correction suggestions improved overall user experience.

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@article{tellingen2026smarter,
  title  = {Smarter edits? Post-editing with error highlights and translation suggestions},
  author = {Fleur V. J. van Tellingen and Gautam Ranka and Dora Žugčić and Joyce van der Wal and Andrea Camasta and Livio Guerra and Alina Karakanta},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.21135},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21135v1}
}

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