Bilingual word dictionaries are referenced for translating the words of an annotated source span, producing blocklists with candidate literal translation errors. Blocklists are filtered by removing words that occur in the reference to avoid triggering the blocklist when the correct translation is literal.

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A blocklist is a list of candidate literal translation errors. 


Blocklist Definition  


1. Select from the source text the list of words $$s = \langle s_1, s_2, \dots, s_N \rangle$$ belonging to the annotated idiom.
2. For each word $$s_i$$, obtain its word translations in the target language using a bilingual dictionary and add them to a blocklist $$b_i = \langle t_1, t_2, \dots, t_M \rangle$$ and create a candidate list of blocklists $$B_s = \langle b_1, b_2, \dots, b_N \rangle$$.
3. For each word in the reference (R), search if it occurs in any of the blocklists $$b_i$$. If so, remove the corresponding blocklist $$b_i$$ from $$B_s$$.
4. Check if the hypothesis contains any blocklisted words. If so, mark this hypothesis as having a literal translation error.

The final score is the percentage of translations that trigger the blocklist. Since LiTER requires source-side annotations, test data with idioms on the source side are collected, and the spans where they occur are annotated.

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