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  "title": "PAT: RAG-Based LLM Translation Beyond Sentence-Level MT",
  "dek": "PAT tests whether retrieval, user specifications, and whole-document LLM generation can move automatic translation beyond sentence-by-sentence transfer.",
  "summary": "PAT tests RAG-based whole-document LLM translation into LATAM/Mexican Spanish with MQM-style human review.",
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      "What is PAT?",
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      "Does PAT replace professional translators?",
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      "What was evaluated?",
      "Who evaluated the translations and how?",
      "What happened with the limited prompt condition?",
      "Did specifications and corpus context help?",
      "Did PAT improve translation quality?",
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        "name": "U.S. English",
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        "name": "Latin American Spanish",
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        "name": "Generative AI essays",
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      "CAT tools as sentence-by-sentence translation background",
      "Machine translation as sentence-level background",
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